Sydney Satchwill

Senior Software Engineer

Oakland, California, United States11 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in backend engineering for media applications.
Proven track record in CI/CD and Kubernetes migrations.
Strong foundation in data-driven engineering solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in Media and SaaS industries.

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Other Skills

RubyJavaJUnitMySQLHTMLData MiningCSSApacheEclipseAgile MethodologiesTest Driven DevelopmentWebSocketsPythonData AnalysisGIMP

About

Experienced Software Development Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Skilled in Ruby, Databases, HTML, JavaScript, and Unix environments. Strong engineering professional with a B.S. in Computer Science from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Experience

11 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Netflix

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2026 – Present · 3 mos

Backend Engineer, Ads Reporting Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2023 – Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Backend Engineer, Ads Measurement Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

Backend Engineer, Digital Production Engineering
Creating world-class media pipeline tooling for the future of film & TV.

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2020 – Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Backend Engineer, Studio Foundations Engineering
Maintaining a talent data API & platform that allows our Studio to conceptualize, staff and produce hundreds of titles internationally per year. Drove efforts around data quality & connectedness.

Braintree

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2018 – Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater Chicago Area

Senior Software Engineer, Sustainability & Engineering Excellence team
Apr 2019 - June 2020
Cutover and scale Rails monolith from datacenter deploy to Kubernetes, and eventually the cloud.
Evolve and improve deployment process and observability.
Infrastructure Engineer, Developer Tools team
Feb 2018 - Apr 2019
Writing and evangelizing CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes to the engineering department at large, in Ruby, Groovy, Bash, and Go
Maintaining and improving Jenkins CI infrastructure
Custom tooling for docker-compose and container orchestration
Slack bot for compliance-related orchestration around deploys

Groupon

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Chicago Area

Software Engineer, Financial Engineering team
Jul 2015 - Jan 2018
Ruby on Rails, Clojure, MySQL, Postgres, Microservice Architecture, Workflow Management, Salesforce, Netsuite, Batch asynchronous processing, Merchant disbursements, VAT invoicing