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Alan Rudman

@alanrudman

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Staff Software Engineer specializing in scalable distributed systems and SRE.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior engineering roles focusing on scalable backend/platform systems, SRE practices, cloud-native architecture, and mentoring teams in a collaborative, outcomes-driven environment.

I am a Staff Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience architecting highly scalable distributed systems and intelligent data platforms. I bridge business objectives and technical execution to deliver fault-tolerant, high-performance enterprise solutions.

At Red Ventures I led microservice architecture and cloud migrations using Java Spring Boot, Golang, AWS ECS, and Terraform, maintaining 99.99% availability for high-traffic platforms and processing tens of millions of daily API requests.

I design data-intensive, real-time pipelines and observability solutions — building Kafka/Spark streaming systems, Datadog instrumentation, SLOs, and RAG knowledge bases using LangChain, Pinecone, and OpenAI to accelerate developer productivity and reduce MTTR.

I champion site reliability engineering, mentor engineering organizations, author architecture decision records, and implement CI/CD, container security, and automated deployments to improve reliability, cut infrastructure costs, and scale teams effectively.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Staff Software Engineer

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Red Ventures

May 2024 - Present (1 year 10 months)

Spearheaded microservice platform using Java, Go, and AWS to process 50M+ daily API requests with 99.99% availability and implemented RAG knowledge base to index 1,000+ docs for automated developer support.

Golang Java AWS ECS Terraform Pinecone Datadog CI CD Microservices

Senior Software Engineer

Red Ventures

Mar 2020 - Mar 2024 (4 years)

Architected scalable backend services and Kafka-based personalization engines, reduced payload latency with gRPC enabling sub-200ms responses during 5x traffic spikes and improved test coverage to ~85%.

Golang Java Apache Kafka gRPC Spring Boot Redis React TDD BigQuery

Software Developer

General Motors

Feb 2016 - Mar 2020 (4 years 1 month)

Built high-volume streaming pipelines with Kafka and Spark for Connected Vehicle Cloud, reducing telemetry latency from hours to seconds and modernizing legacy SOAP systems to REST to cut integration time by 50%.