Are you looking for a back-end or full-stack engineer?

Someone adaptable, with a breadth of life experiences and passions across a multitude of disciplines, including application development, audio engineering, applied mathematics, creative writing, embedded electronics, and graphics programming?

A person capable of out-of-the-box thinking, concise and effective communication, picking new skills up on the fly, and approaching challenges from a wide range of different perspectives?

My name's Finley Fletcher. Pleasure to meet you!

My Story

I'm a 26-year-old non-binary (they/them) software engineer from Seattle with a combined bachelor's in Mathematics and Computer Science from Northeastern University and a work ethic matched only by my hunger for new experiences.

My primary skillsets are in back-end engineering, working on REST APIs in languages like Scala, C#, Java, and PHP, but most of my previous professional experience has been multifunctional, and I'm plenty comfortable working in front-end frameworks like React.

During my hiatus from working professionally as a software engineer, I performed as the lead singer for a live band, poured myself into honing my music production skills, fostered a budding passion for photography, worked on a variety of personal software projects, and moved across the country to Seattle from my home state of Massachusetts.

If you're interested in being a part of my next adventure, send me an email at [email protected]!

Work History

Software Engineer - SaaS Protection  |  Datto, Inc.

December 2021 – July 2022

  • Contributed to both front and back end of Datto's SaaS Protection product offered to its MSP clients
  • Developed for a tech stack leveraging PHP (Symfony + Doctrine), Scala, Kubernetes, Kibana
  • Provided on-call support to resolve critical technical issues
  • Improved flexibility of the backup success alerting system to support notifying individual customers
  • Eliminated redundant calls between microservices for client information to reduce latency by up to 50%

Cloud Communications Co-op  |  Cogito Corp.

January 2020 – June 2020

  • Supported telephony systems responsible for receiving real-time call data from call centers for processing by Cogito's augmented intelligence product, primarily in Java and AWS
  • Implemented cost-saving autoscaling of telephony servers using AWS Step Functions, Python, and Cloudformation
  • Designed a Gradle-based Docker containerization solutions with Jenkins integration
  • Converted build systems from using Nebula dependency locking to native Gradle dependency locking

Software Engineer Intern  |  Worldpay (now FIS Global)

January 2019 – June 2019

  • Developed and supported source development kits used by companies like Netflix to integrate with Worldpay's ecommerce API in C# and Java
  • Improved load times by 10% on average by rebuilding a server monitoring tool with Java Spring, Bootstrap.js, and Java Mbean architecture
  • Created a RESTful tool to visualize transaction timing logs spread across several machines using Grafana, Spring Boot, Logstash, and Elasticsearch
  • Implemented SQL migrations to add support for AmazonPay

Software Projects

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Academic History

Northeastern University (Boston, MA)

September 2017 – July 2021

  • Majored in Mathematics and Computer Science
  • Minored in Music Technology
  • Graduated with a GPA of 3.55
  • Had broad exposure to subjects such as machine learning, computational theory, algorithm design, assembly, and linear algebra

Photography

Hobbies

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GitHub: https://github.com/violetarrowdev