Jerry Oates
Brooklyn,NY
Summary
Talented Backend-Leaning Software Engineer with experience building applications at scale. I thrive on collaboration and make an excellent teammate, bringing a positive attitude and natural problem solving ability to drive tangible business results.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer
Extra Card
Remote
09.2021 - 07.2023
- Provisioned and developed a serverless Authentication Service using AWS Cognito and AWS CDK, facilitating a department-wide transition to serverless microservices to replace our legacy REST monolith.
- Developed a new in app token economy with Typescript and React Native to incentivize user interactions in the app and increase engagement.
- Implemented a critical data archiving strategy for our MySQL cluster to prevent reaching maximum disk usage as we scaled, resulting in notable improvements in database performance.
- Managed the safe release of new features behind feature flags in Growthbook to subsets of users, monitoring for errors before successful 100% rollout.
Co-Founder and Lead Backend Engineer
Terralanes
Nashville, Tennessee
07.2020 - 07.2021
- Co-founded Terralanes (Acquired 2021), a B2B SaaS startup aimed at designing the perfect CRM for the logistics industry.
- Built the backend MVP with the Serverless Framework provisioned on AWS, using Lambda, API Gateway, and Cognito.
- Implemented the app's main search engine feature with Elasticsearch to allow users instant access to their data, in real-time sync with our Postgres database.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Amplify Exchange
Knoxville, TN
08.2019 - 07.2020
- Conducted comprehensive testing of modifications across our entire tech stack, ranging from user-facing features to architecture-specific edge cases.
- Developed suite of frontend UI tests with Cypress as part of our CI pipeline to catch critical bugs on production deployments.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Geography (GIS), English Literature
The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Knoxville, TN05.2019
Skills
- Languages: TypeScript, Nodejs (Advanced) Elixir, Ruby, Python (Basic)
- Frameworks and Libraries: Express, React, ReactNative, AWS CDK, AWS SDK, Serverless Framework, Sequelize, Objection, Jest, Cypress
- Backend Paradigms: Serverless, REST, Microservices, Monorepo, Infrastructure as Code
- Cloud: AWS (CloudFormation, Cognito, API Gateway, Lambda, StepFunctions, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EventBridge, RDS, Elasticsearch), DigitalOcean (Spaces, Droplets), Kubernetes
- Databases: MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis
- Tools: Git, GitHub, Bash, VSCode, Jira, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Scrum
Timeline
Software Engineer
Extra Card
09.2021 - 07.2023
Co-Founder and Lead Backend Engineer
Terralanes
07.2020 - 07.2021
Quality Assurance Engineer
Amplify Exchange
08.2019 - 07.2020
Bachelor of Arts - Geography (GIS), English Literature
The University of Tennessee - Knoxville