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 2019Present · 7 yrs

  • Building streaming data pipelines with Kafka.
KafkaStreaming Data PipelinesDistributed SystemsFault Tolerance

New relic, inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2016May 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 2014Nov 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 2011May 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

Codeuber llc.

Co-Founder

Dec 2009Jul 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos · Lutz, Florida

  • • Developed a scalable SEO-ready CMS target at small to medium sized businesses.
CMSSEOScalabilitySaaS

Education

Full Sail University

Bachelor of Science in Game Development — Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2009

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