R-01 / Ruby / Rails / APIs / data / technical leadership
Senior Backend Engineer
Backend developer with 7+ years of Ruby and Rails experience building APIs, migration tooling, test suites, and production services. Leads teams, improves query performance, modernizes legacy systems, and keeps delivery grounded in operational reality.
01 / Experience
Professional experience
Backend Developer / DevOps
Independent Development · Remote
- Build tools in Ruby, Python, Go, JavaScript, and TypeScript for independent and client work.
- Released MCP-Grep, a Python search tool, as open source.
- Tune databases and build API integrations for client systems.
Lead Backend Developer / Technical Team Lead
GoX Labs · Remote
- Migrated legacy services to AWS ECS and reduced infrastructure costs during a lean operating period.
- Set up CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
- Upgraded Rails 5 to Rails 7 with zero downtime.
- Improved SQL query performance by 25 percent through query and ORM optimization.
- Expanded RSpec coverage with BDD/TDD practices and mentored engineers on Ruby and architecture.
Software Developer - Backend
Comcast Technology Solutions · Remote
- Built the MPX SDK and CI tooling in Ruby; the SDK was later released as open source.
- Automated a deployment pipeline, reducing the cycle from six hours to one minute and saving approximately $300,000 per year.
- Built an RSpec suite with near-100 percent coverage plus Splunk dashboards for production monitoring and alerts.
- Created a transformation engine for cross-account media migration with graph-based dependency resolution.
Technical Support Lead
Comcast Technology Solutions · Remote
- Led the support team for high-traffic media services and owned incident response end to end.
- Led team troubleshooting of backend issues on high-traffic services.
Application Support IV
thePlatform for Media · Seattle, Washington
- Served as the escalation point for complex production issues across distributed media services.
- Traced requests across microservices with Splunk and debugged API failures, timeouts, and data inconsistencies.
02 / Capabilities
Technical capabilities
Build
Services, APIs, and tooling
- Ruby
- Go
- Python
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- Ruby on Rails
- REST APIs
- Microservices
- RSpec / BDD / TDD
Data
Storage and performance
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Redis
- SQL query tuning
- ORM optimization
Ship
Cloud and delivery
- AWS ECS / EC2 / S3 / Lambda
- Docker
- GitHub Actions / CircleCI
- Git workflows / code review
Observe
Signals and diagnosis
- Splunk
- APM / distributed request tracing with Splunk
- Dashboards / alerting
Lead
Teams and durable practice
- Technical team leadership
- Architecture and code review
- Mentoring and training
03 / Selected projects
Tools and systems
MCP-Grep
Open-source Python search tool.
Ruby-Beautify
Ruby formatting tool with more than 140 GitHub stars and releases for multiple Ruby environments.
Comcast MPX SDK
Ruby gems and deployment tooling for MPX platform integration and cross-account media migration.
04 / Foundation
Education & recognition
Education / 2007 - 2009
Lake Washington Technical College
Associate in Computer Networking Security and Forensics
Award / Feb 2018
Comcast Starr Award
Awarded for an automated deployment system that reduced labor costs by approximately $300,000 per year.
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