Grant King

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San Francisco, California, United States24 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in architecting scalable SaaS microservice platforms.
Passionate about evolving engineering practices for continuous delivery.
Proven track record in leading cross-functional engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Architect with extensive experience in microservices and continuous delivery.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesSaasArchitectureSoftware ArchitectureSoftware Development

Other Skills

Agile DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)AntArchitecturesBackend EngineeringClient Needs AnalysisContinuous DeliveryDesign PatternsDistributed SystemsDockerEclipseEnterprise SoftwareGitHadoop

About

A skilled professional delivering robust, scalable, high-performant and extensible software. I have significant real world experience in architecting and delivering SaaS microservice platforms. Evolving engineering practices to realize the benefit and scale that comes with continuously delivered SaaS microservices, is a true passion of mine.

Experience

Postman

Head of Cloud Platform

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

8x8

3 roles

VP of Engineering

Jan 2023 – Jul 2023 · 6 mos

Chief Architect

Promoted

May 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

Senior Director Software Engineering

Jun 2018 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Acme technologies inc.

Lead Infrastructure Architect

Apr 2017 – Mar 2018 · 11 mos

Jiff, inc.

2 roles

Senior Platform Architect

Promoted

Feb 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

Design and architect industry leading microservice SaaS platform.
Evolve engineering practices to benefit from a continuous delivery model, delivering into production multiple times a day.
Ensuring quality, reliability, security and performance are never compromised.
Evaluate, prototype and recommend technology and practices.
Work across engineering, ensuring technical guidelines and best practices being followed and enforced.

MicroservicesSaaSContinuous DeliveryQuality AssuranceSecurityPerformance+2

Architecture Consultant

Oct 2015 – Feb 2016 · 4 mos

Nice systems

Senior Cloud Software Architect at NICE Systems

Feb 2012 – Feb 2016 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Lead the development and architecture of NICE's go forward SaaS platform offering.
Work with various distributed engineering teams to evolve and migrate NICE's legacy enterprise applications onto a single multi-tenant SaaS platform.
Define and implement a continuous delivery development model.
Work with engineering and product to ensure simple extensible designs in development, meeting product's requirements.

Merced systems

Software Architect/Developer

Nov 2008 – Jan 2012 · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Architected and developed a shared platform accommodating Merced's multiple enterprise applications.
Wrote maintainable and extensible code.
Rapidly prototyped new capabilities to confirm feasibility.
Directed software design and development while remaining focused on client needs.

SaaSContinuous DeliveryArchitectureMulti-tenant SystemsProduct Development

Practique

Senior Java Developer

Oct 2007 – Oct 2008 · 1 yr · Greater Reading Area

Lead development and design of new platform moving to a new technology stack based on java technologies.
Develop core features of Practique's financial enterprise application.
Part of core backend engineering team responsible for all stages of design, development, and deployment. Delivering fully tested production quality code.

Software ArchitecturePrototypingClient Needs Analysis