Your Name

Software Engineer

Summary

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Experience

  1. Tech Lead, Platform Team · Example Corp

    Dec 2023 – Present · Remote

    Lead engineer on the platform team. Designed the multi-region failover system that now handles 12M requests/day.

    • Migrated billing pipeline from monolith to event-driven Kafka topology — cut p99 latency 70%.
    • Owned hiring for the team; closed 4 engineers in 9 months.
    • Authored the on-call playbook adopted by 3 other platform-adjacent teams.
    • Designed the schema-registry contract-test pattern used across 14 services.

    Technologies: Go, Kafka, Postgres, AWS, Terraform

  2. Senior Software Engineer · Example Corp

    Dec 2022 – Dec 2023 · Remote

    Joined as a senior IC, promoted to tech lead after the platform reorg. Shipped the v2 event-replay system.

    • Owned the design and rollout of customer-facing event-replay tooling — 280+ enterprise customers.
    • Mentored two junior engineers through their first production incident postmortems.

    Technologies: Go, TypeScript, Postgres

  3. Software Engineer · Previous Co

    Dec 2019 – Dec 2022 · Hybrid · Boston, MA

    Backend engineer on the data ingest team. Owned the schema-evolution layer and the customer-facing event-replay tooling.

    • Designed schema-registry-backed contract testing system that prevented 6 production incidents.
    • Rewrote ingest worker pool — 3× throughput on same hardware.
    • Reduced incident MTTR from 47min to 14min across the team after introducing the incident-response bot.

    Technologies: Python, Postgres, Redis, Terraform

  4. Systems Engineer (Cleared) · Defense contractor (details on request)

    Dec 2015 – Dec 2019 · On-site, SCIF

    Four years building auditable, failure-tolerant systems under formal change-control and security-classification regimes. Specifics under NDA.

    • Order-of-magnitude scale: hundreds of users, millions of requests/day, four-nines uptime requirement.
    • Worked under formal change-control with multi-stakeholder code review.
    • Cleared for work in environments where bugs have downstream consequences far beyond the system.

    Technologies: Details on request

Education

  • B.S. Computer Science · State University (2016)

    Honors thesis on distributed consensus protocols.

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate · Amazon Web Services ()

    VPC design · IAM least-privilege · Multi-region failover · Cost optimization · CloudWatch + observability

  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) · Cloud Native Computing Foundation ()

    Pod lifecycle + probes · Services + Ingress · ConfigMaps + Secrets · Multi-container patterns · kubectl efficiency

  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) · HashiCorp ()

    Terraform core workflow · State management + remote backends · Module design · Provider authentication · HCL functions + expressions

  • CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) · CompTIA ()

    Threat detection + response · Network security fundamentals · Cryptography concepts · Risk management · Compliance frameworks

Skills

Languages: TypeScript, Go, Python, SQL, Bash

Systems & Infra: Distributed systems, Event-driven architecture, Postgres internals, Kafka, Kubernetes

Cloud: AWS, Cloudflare, Terraform

Practices: Code review, Hiring, Mentorship, Incident response