Brooks Pike
Austin,TX
Summary
Accomplished Software Engineer with over seven years of experience in Node.js backend development, specializing in startup environments since 2018. Expert in architecting scalable microservices, establishing robust design patterns, and implementing efficient CI/CD pipelines. Previously served as Director of Engineering at KelaHealth, successfully guiding technical strategy and team growth through a company acquisition. Passionate about leveraging deep technical expertise in hands-on development, seeking a Senior Software Engineer role as an independent contributor to drive innovative backend solutions and deliver high-impact, maintainable systems.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Cofounder / Sr. Software Engineer
JumpServe
Austin, TX
07.2025 - Current
- Architected and implemented a scalable Node.js backend system for a booking platform, integrating Stripe for seamless payment processing and APN/Twilio for robust notification workflows.
- Established CI/CD pipelines with end-to-end testing, ensuring reliable deployments and high code quality for mission-critical systems.
- Owned end-to-end development of the backend Node.js infrastructure and React-based frontend web application, delivering cohesive and user-focused solutions.
- Flexed into a product role, collaborating closely with the iOS engineer and product team to align technical development with business requirements and user needs.
Director of Engineering
Kēlahealth
Austin, TX
02.2023 - 05.2025
- Acquired by Intuitive Surgical
- Work closely with CTO & CEO to excede client expectations while also improving our technical capacity to tackle future work
- Exposed external API, complete with a sandbox environment and premiere documentation
- Maximize the team's efficiency by managing sprints, removing blockers and promoting detailed design before implementation
- Mentor in efficient backend systems, ERD design, and frontend development
Senior Full Stack Engineer
KēlaHealth
Austin (remote), TX
09.2022 - 01.2023
- Designed and implemented microservice architecture on kubernetes (EKS) from the ground up
- Introduced engineering process with full ci/cd integration
- Created and implemented "stateful" data ingestion pipeline to fully enable our primary application and data science team
Lead Software Engineer
Routefusion
Austin, TX
06.2022 - 08.2022
- Leading a team of 4 engineers with mixed experience
- Created the architecture for the system that allows routefusion to control the flow of funds from beginning to end with every payout by leveraging direct debit and bank to payment provider transfers.
- Lead architecture meetings and resolve bite sized pieces of work while considering strategies for testing, deployment, rollbacks, and overall impact on the system.
- Work with the product team and stakeholders to create user stories that drive client facing features.
- Invest in the future of the company by mentoring less senior engineers on how to write more safe, more readable, and longer living code.
Software Engineer (Founding Member)
Routefusion
Austin, TX
04.2018 - 06.2022
- First Routefusion Employee - Aided in building the MVP, and led the rebuilding of the more scalable approach that led us to seed funding.
- Reduced the time to integrate with payment providers by standardizing interfaces, leveraging code generation, and creating/implementing a tool to expose and export otherwise undocumented/unique api requirements for thousands of payment corridors.
- Full feature implementation from creating kubernetes deployments/cronjobs, managing infrastructure as code, SQL migrations, backend service interfaces, as well as frontend application changes.
- Lead integrations with banks and payment providers to fully empower the routefusion clients.
- Design and implement client facing GraphQL queries and mutations as well as HTTP interfaces following REST principles.
- Perform the duties of the "But what if this happens" guy by evaluating and elevating potential issues in the system.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Kinesiology
University of Texas At Austin
Austin, TX2016
Skills
- Node, React, Vue, React Native
- AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform (IaC),
- GraphQL, Express, Postgresql, Firestore, Redis, Puppeteer, Mocha
- Microservice architechture, cronjobs, web scraping, automation, testing (TDD, BDD), OCR, Googling
- Accepting/absorbing feedback in literally any situation
Personal Projects
- Bullwise Options Alerts (React Native / Node / Python) - 2022-current
- Rooselette Online Roulette Player (Node / Puppeteer / OCR) - 2021
- Volleyball League Auto-Signup (Node / Puppeteer) - 2021
- Radfit Mobile Workout Creator (React Native / Node) - 2016
Timeline
Cofounder / Sr. Software Engineer
JumpServe
07.2025 - Current
Director of Engineering
Kēlahealth
02.2023 - 05.2025
Senior Full Stack Engineer
KēlaHealth
09.2022 - 01.2023
Lead Software Engineer
Routefusion
06.2022 - 08.2022
Software Engineer (Founding Member)
Routefusion
04.2018 - 06.2022
Bachelor of Science - Kinesiology
University of Texas At Austin
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