Josh Ayres

Software Engineer

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States3 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable microservices
Proficient in Go and Ruby on Rails development
Strong background in real-time system architecture

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in SaaS and microservices architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesGo (programming Language)Ruby On RailsRest Apis

Other Skills

GitPostgreSQLAWSGRPCEvent Driven ArchitectureTypeScriptComputer ScienceRubyC#LinuxC (Programming Language)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)AlgorithmsTeachingPython (Programming Language)

Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

1 yr

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Github

Software Engineer

Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 · 11 mos · Remote

Worked on GitHub's platform team to host git repositories on GitHub
Led projects migrating code from GitHub's ruby on rails monolith into Go microservices for faster API
access and increased maintainability
Contributed to a prototype for saving git data to and serving it from a CDN, decreasing latency
Built new caching services for fetching git data, eliminating the possibility of serving stale data

Go (Programming Language)MicroservicesGitREST APIs

Las vegas sands corp.

Software Engineer

Oct 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States · On-site

Developed microservices in Go with GRPC to create realtime experiences for hundreds of thousands of
users
Assisted in rewrite of codebase implementing an Event Driven Architecture using NATS, GRPC and
PostgreSQL greatly improving developer experience and auditability of services
Implemented systems to interact with 3rd party wallet APIs in real time, ensuring data consistency
between both systems
Led design and development of Extract, Transform, Load microservice using AWS S3 with JSON
objects archiving 1000s of events and state per minute
Wrote monitoring and metric recording system utilizing Prometheus and Datadog
Rearchitected the codebase to use Domain Driven Design resulting in ~100,000 fewer lines of code and
allowing for greater reuse of modular parts

Go (Programming Language)PostgreSQLAWSGRPCEvent Driven ArchitectureMicroservices

Alphaflow

Software Engineer

Feb 2022 – Oct 2022 · 8 mos · Remote

Worked closely with product managers and other developers to implement new features for internal
tooling by creating RESTful APIs in Go and PostgreSQL
Built new SaaS platform using Ruby on Rails in a fast paced environment while still maintaining high
levels of code quality by ensuring over 90% code test coverage
Extended custom Excel-like Domain Specific Language by adding new features, syntax, and methods
leading to greater usability and adoption
Wrote extensive documentation for both new and existing features and best practices allowing for new
hires to onboard easier

Ruby on RailsPostgreSQLREST APIs