Professional Summary
Software engineer with six years of experience designing, building, and maintaining production web applications. Specialized in backend APIs and distributed systems. Comfortable leading cross-functional projects, mentoring junior engineers, and improving developer workflows. Focused on shipping reliable software that measurably improves the user experience.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
2021 – PresentNorthwind Technologies · Remote
- Led the redesign of the public API gateway, reducing median response times by 38% across 12 endpoints.
- Designed and shipped a multi-tenant billing service that processed over $4M in annual recurring revenue in its first year.
- Mentored four junior engineers, three of whom were promoted within 18 months.
- Introduced automated integration tests, cutting production incidents by 62% quarter over quarter.
Software Engineer
2018 – 2021Brightline Systems · Austin, TX
- Built internal tooling that reduced customer onboarding time from seven days to under 48 hours.
- Migrated a legacy monolith to a service-oriented architecture with zero downtime.
- Collaborated with product and design to ship 20+ customer-visible features over three release cycles.
- Wrote documentation and runbooks adopted by the entire engineering team.
Junior Software Engineer
2016 – 2018Cedar Labs · Boston, MA
- Developed features for a customer-facing analytics dashboard used by 500+ enterprise accounts.
- Reduced page load times by 45% through bundle optimization and lazy loading.
- Participated in an on-call rotation, resolving critical incidents with a median time-to-resolution of 45 minutes.
Skills
- Python
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- REST APIs
- GraphQL
- System Design
- Testing
Education
B.Sc. Computer Science
2012 – 2016University of Massachusetts Amherst
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