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Marcus Rivera
Senior Software Engineer
Austin, TX (512) 334-8821 marcus.rivera@email.com linkedin.com/in/marcusrivera github.com/mrivera-dev
Summary

Senior software engineer with 7 years of experience designing and shipping production-grade distributed systems. Deep expertise in Python and Go back-ends, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and cloud-native architecture. Track record of reducing operational costs and improving system reliability at scale. Comfortable leading small engineering teams and mentoring junior developers.

Experience
Senior Software Engineer Mar 2021 – Present
Nexus Cloud Systems  ·  Austin, TX (Remote)
  • Architected a microservices platform handling 4M+ daily API requests with 99.97% uptime, cutting incident response time by 62%.
  • Led migration of monolithic Django application to 12 independently deployable services on Kubernetes, reducing deployment frequency from bi-weekly to daily.
  • Designed a real-time data pipeline using Kafka and Apache Flink processing 800K events/hour, enabling product analytics used by 6 internal teams.
  • Reduced AWS cloud spend by $340K/year through spot instance strategy, autoscaling tuning, and S3 lifecycle policies.
  • Mentored a team of 4 engineers; 2 promoted to mid-level within 12 months under my guidance.
Software Engineer II Jul 2018 – Feb 2021
DataBridge Analytics  ·  Dallas, TX
  • Built RESTful and GraphQL APIs in Python/Flask serving 200K active users; reduced P95 latency from 780ms to 140ms via query optimization and Redis caching.
  • Developed an ML-powered anomaly detection service (scikit-learn) that flagged fraudulent transactions with 94.3% precision, saving an estimated $1.2M annually.
  • Automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Terraform, cutting release cycle from 3 weeks to 4 days.
  • Contributed 40+ PRs to open-source internal tooling adopted by 3 other engineering teams.
Junior Software Engineer Jun 2017 – Jun 2018
StartLoop Inc.  ·  Austin, TX
  • Delivered full-stack features in React and Node.js for a SaaS product growing from 0 to 8,000 paying users.
  • Implemented Stripe Billing integration handling $50K+ monthly recurring revenue with zero billing errors.
Projects
GoTrace — Distributed Tracing Library Go · OpenTelemetry · Prometheus

Open-source library with 1.4K GitHub stars providing lightweight distributed tracing for Go microservices. Used in production by 3 companies. github.com/mrivera-dev/gotrace

Infra Cost Analyzer Python · AWS SDK · React

Internal tool adopted company-wide that visualizes AWS cost attribution per service and flags optimization opportunities. Saved $90K in the first quarter after launch.

Skills
LanguagesPython, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, Bash
FrameworksDjango, FastAPI, Flask, React, Node.js, gRPC
InfrastructureKubernetes, Docker, Terraform, AWS (EKS, RDS, Lambda, S3), GCP
Data & ToolsKafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, GitHub Actions
Education
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science May 2017
University of Texas at Austin  ·  GPA: 3.7/4.0  ·  Dean's List (4 semesters)
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2022)  ·  Certified Kubernetes Administrator – CKA (2023)