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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

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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, TN
05.2019

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

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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
Jerry Oates