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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
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Current Experience

Github

Software Engineer

Oct 2024Sep 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 2022Jun 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 2022Oct 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

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