#experience
Where I have worked and what shipped there.
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9 years building payment and data systems. Currently on-call lead for a service handling 40M requests a day. Reply in the thread or DM to grab time.
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Ross Geller
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Now · 2022–present
Senior Backend Engineer, Northwind Payments · Seattle
- Own the ledger service behind 40M daily transactions, on-call lead for a team of 6.
- Cut p99 checkout latency from 820ms to 240ms by rewriting the settlement path in Go.
- Moved 12 legacy cron jobs onto an event queue, which ended the nightly reconciliation gap.
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MORS
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Ross Geller
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2019–2022
Backend Engineer, Cedar Analytics · Remote
- Built the ingestion API that took the platform from 2 to 90 enterprise customers.
- Wrote the schema migration tool the whole team still uses, 300+ migrations run with zero downtime.
- Mentored 4 junior engineers, two of whom now run their own services.
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Ross Geller
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2016–2019
Software Engineer, Harbor Logistics · Portland
- Shipped the route-planning service that trimmed fuel spend across 1,200 daily deliveries by 14%.
- Set up the first CI pipeline, which took deploys from weekly to a dozen a day.
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Ross Geller
#skills
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The stack I reach for most:
Go · 6 yrs
Python · 8 yrs
PostgreSQL
Kafka
gRPC
Kubernetes
Terraform
AWS
Redis
Datadog
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Three things Ross shipped that people still bring up:
🥇 Zero-downtime ledger migration (2023)
Moved 4 years of transaction history to a new schema over a weekend, no customer noticed.
🎤 Talk at GopherCon (2022)
"Idempotency for people who have been paged at 3am." 600 in the room, slides shared 2,000 times.
🔒 Fraud rule engine (2021)
Caught $1.2M in bad charges in its first quarter without adding checkout friction.
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From #education
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Ross Geller
#education
2012–2016
B.S. Computer Science, Oregon State University
- Focus on distributed systems. Senior project was a toy database that still gets a few GitHub stars a year.
- AWS Solutions Architect and Certified Kubernetes Administrator, both current.
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