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Artie Gold

Austin

Summary

Software engineer with a strong focus on collaboration and continuous improvement. Proven ability to enhance team culture and streamline processes for greater efficiency. Expertise in simplifying complex systems to improve usability and performance. Committed to delivering high-quality solutions that drive organizational success.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer (Contract)

Dell
Round Rock
12.2023 - 12.2024
  • Collect, persist, present, and showcase observability data for AI offerings.
  • Mentored developers..
  • Streamlined task definitions in a Scrum environment, improving feature delivery.
  • Increased and improved unit testing.
  • Developed code standards and a path to gradual adoption.
  • Instituted pairing and mobbing.
  • Primary Technologies: Python, Docker, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Grafana, FastAPI, PostgreSQL.

Senior Software Developer

Everi
Austin
06.2020 - 07.2023
  • Extended and refactored remote gaming server.
  • Created containerized FastAPI round monitor service for detecting possible error conditions, repairing them where appropriate. This enabled the automation of most of the customer service chain.
  • Developed coding standards, emphasizing small methods and locality of scope.
  • Encouraged 'functional when you can, imperative when you must' approach.
  • Instituted roundtable sessions for knowledge sharing.
  • Mentored fellow developers.
  • Primary Technologies: Java, SpringBoot, Spring, Python, Cassandra, Docker, AWS, Gradle

Lead Software Engineer

Cvent
Austin
01.2020 - 05.2020
  • Performed extensive code reviews, specifically writing for testability.
  • Worked in multiple codebases in multiple languages, enhancing core systems.
  • Primary Technologies: C#, TypeScript, NodeJS, MySQL

Staff Software Engineer

RetailMeNot
Austin
01.2019 - 11.2019
  • Performed and analyzed pre-release and pre-holiday load testing of React-based replacement app.
  • Developed cache strategies to improve system performance.
  • Exposed application aware metrics via Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Primary Technologies: NodeJS, PHP, Java, GraphQL

Senior Software Engineer

Spredfast
Austin
02.2018 - 11.2018
  • Created secure service managing social media credentials for business users.
  • Maintained existing services.
  • Primary Technologies: Scala, Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, Redis

Senior Application Developer

Sparefoot
Austin
04.2014 - 12.2017
  • Principal creator of A/B testing framework microservice, providing multiple selection strategies (random, multi-armed bandit, etc.).
  • Implemented microservice for phone number allocation (local or toll-free, as appropriate).
  • Optimized data requests to greatly reduce rendering time on many main pages.
  • As part of small team, broke up the monolith and moved to a ReST-based microservice architecture.
  • Primary Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Java, Python

Education

B.A. - Computer Science

Columbia University

Study in formal languages and automata.

University of California at Los Angeles

Core courses, Research in Functional Programming.

University of Texas at Austin

Skills

  • AWS (SNS, SQS, S3)
  • Redis
  • Docker
  • Datadog
  • Kubernetes
  • Grafana
  • PHP
  • C programming
  • C programming
  • Python programming
  • Erlang programming
  • Elixir programming
  • JavaScript
  • Nodejs development
  • TypeScript development
  • Common Lisp
  • Scheme programming
  • Clojure programming
  • Haskell programming
  • F# programming
  • C# programming
  • Scala programming
  • Java programming
  • MySQL database management
  • MSSQL database management
  • PostgreSQL database management
  • MongoDB database management
  • Cassandra database management
  • DynamoDB

Hobbies and Interests

Guitar player. Musician in remission., Functional Programming, Distributed Systems, Type Systems, Test-Driven Development, Property-Based Testing, Event-Driven Architectures, Programming Languages, Development Culture/Methodologies (Mobbing, Pairing, Neo-Extreme), How to make AI a useful tool (programming’s always been about specifying what you want)

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer (Contract)

Dell
12.2023 - 12.2024

Senior Software Developer

Everi
06.2020 - 07.2023

Lead Software Engineer

Cvent
01.2020 - 05.2020

Staff Software Engineer

RetailMeNot
01.2019 - 11.2019

Senior Software Engineer

Spredfast
02.2018 - 11.2018

Senior Application Developer

Sparefoot
04.2014 - 12.2017

B.A. - Computer Science

Columbia University

Study in formal languages and automata.

University of California at Los Angeles

Core courses, Research in Functional Programming.

University of Texas at Austin