Andre Cruz

Senior Software Engineer

Portland, Oregon, United States16 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable streaming data pipelines.
Proven track record in game development and infrastructure scaling.
Strong experience with microservices and distributed systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Gaming.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsFault ToleranceScalabilityInfrastructureGame DevelopmentSaas

Other Skills

KafkaStreaming Data PipelinesGoMicroservicesCassandraElasticsearchZooKeeperMesosAWSDynamic ConfigurationDecentralized Service DiscoveryContent PipelineReal-Time StrategyCMSSEO

About

Building streaming data pipelines at GitHub.

Experience

16 yrs

Total Experience

4 yrs

Average Tenure

7 yrs

Current Experience

Github

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2019 – Present · 7 yrs

Building streaming data pipelines with Kafka.

KafkaStreaming Data PipelinesDistributed SystemsFault Tolerance

New relic, inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2016 – May 2019 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Portland, Oregon Area

Built the Infrastructure product that monitors millions of entities in real time
Scaled the Infrastructure platform which handles 99 million reqs/min
Built and operated 41 high throughput Go microservices for the Infrastructure platform responsible for: edge ingest, alert evaluation, streaming data pipelines, indexing, downsampling, identity resolution, relationships, auth, public APIs
Operated Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, ZooKeeper, and Mesos clusters in multiple regions
On-call for all services and infrastructure, commanded incidents and lead retros
Worked closely with support team and customers to troubleshoot the Infrastructure product

GoMicroservicesCassandraElasticsearchKafkaZooKeeper+3

Kixeye

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

May 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

Built core service platform for microservices in AWS
Implemented dynamic configuration delivery systems
Designed and prototyped various experimental systems
Decentralized service discovery/configuration management
Time series data storage
Event/message journal engine

AWSMicroservicesDynamic ConfigurationDecentralized Service DiscoveryInfrastructure

Software Engineer

Aug 2011 – May 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Launched War Commander, a high traffic web based MMO Real-Time Strategy game.
Built a content pipeline to streamline development for the engineering/design teams.
Implemented dynamic world map with real-time conquest gameplay between thousands of players.

Game DevelopmentContent PipelineReal-Time Strategy