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Chaz Carey

@chazcarey

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I am a senior Golang engineer specializing in scalable cloud-native distributed systems and performance optimization.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior backend engineering role focused on Go and cloud-native architectures where I can design scalable, high-throughput distributed systems, lead and mentor teams, and improve reliability and cost-efficiency.

I am a senior software engineer with 12+ years building backend systems using Go, Python, Java and C++, focused on scalable, fault-tolerant cloud-native applications.

I architected and led development of Go-based microservices that processed 1M+ daily transactions, migrated monolithic systems to microservices, reduced latency by 35%, increased throughput by 50%, and shortened release cycles from monthly to weekly.

I drove observability and operational excellence through Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry and improved CI/CD, cutting MTTR by 40%, deployment times by 60%, and achieving $400K in annual cloud cost savings through performance and concurrency optimizations.

I mentor engineers, standardize best practices, and partner with product to align technical roadmaps; I seek opportunities to design reliable, cost-efficient distributed systems and grow engineering teams while delivering measurable business outcomes.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Golang Engineer

Backup Technology

Sep 2020 - Jun 2025 (4 years 9 months)

Architected and led a high-availability Go-based backup platform processing 1M+ daily transactions, reducing latency by 35% and increasing throughput by 50%. Implemented microservices, observability, and CI/CD improvements that cut release cycles to weekly, lowered resource use 25% saving $400K annually, and improved MTTR by 40%.

Go Kafka gRPC S3 EC2 RDS Kubernetes Docker Redis PostgreSQL Prometheus

Senior Software Engineer

Geomega, Inc

Jun 2016 - Aug 2020 (4 years 2 months)

Introduced Go and rebuilt legacy Java services into high-performance microservices, and built ETL pipelines processing 500K+ records daily that cut execution time by 45%. Designed cloud-native AWS solutions with autoscaling and CI/CD practices, and improved service reliability by adopting message queues and OAuth2 security.

Go Java AWS Kafka RabbitMQ Jenkins Docker MySQL MongoDB

Software Engineer

Digitron Solution LLC

Jun 2013 - May 2016 (2 years 11 months)

Developed backend features and SQL optimizations that improved reporting speed by 20% and reduced outages by 15% while contributing to early AWS cloud migrations. Built APIs and automated testing/deployment pipelines, and piloted Go adoption that influenced later full-scale use.