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Edward Shi

@edwardshi

Senior software engineer building cloud-native, scalable APIs and platforms—delivering measurable latency, reliability, and delivery improvements.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead cloud-native backend and microservices work where I can optimize performance and reliability, own CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code, and use observability to reduce incidents—while mentoring teams to ship predictable releases.

I’m a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years building cloud-native, scalable web platforms and APIs. I translate product goals into predictable sprint deliveries while designing fault-tolerant systems that improve performance and reduce operational risk.

In my recent role, I architected a microservices platform and reduced average API latency by 38% while increasing release cadence to daily deployments. I’ve also implemented serverless document processing with Google Cloud Functions and GCS, integrated deep observability (DataDog, New Relic, Prometheus), and cut mean time to detection by 52%.

I’ve driven measurable backend and platform outcomes through PostgreSQL and data-work optimizations—reducing slow queries by 67%, dropping peak DB CPU by 45%, and improving onboarding conversion by 21% with analytics instrumentation. I lead CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code adoption using Argo and Terraform, decreasing deployment failures by 74% across multiple services.

Earlier, I re-architected monolithic Node services into domain-aligned microservices, improving deploy independence for 12 teams and lowering cycle time by 48%. I’ve also coached engineers on unit testing, contract testing, and TDD, and brought reliability practices (runbooks, on-call playbooks, incident response) to reduce incident duration by 61%.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Posimotion LLC

Sep 2022 - Present (3 years 7 months)

Architected a Node/TypeScript microservices platform on Docker/Kubernetes, cutting average API latency by 38% and enabling daily deployments. Built serverless document processing on Google Cloud Functions and GCS (3× spike to 120k files/month) and optimized PostgreSQL queries, reducing slow queries by 67% and peak DB CPU by 45%.

Node TypeScript Docker Kubernetes Google Cloud Functions Google Cloud Storage PostgreSQL Datadog Terraform

Senior Software Engineer

Kasasa

May 2019 - Aug 2022 (3 years 3 months)

Led rearchitecture of monolithic Node services into domain-aligned TypeScript microservices for 12 teams, improving deploy independence and lowering cycle time by 48%. Implemented replication pipelines to MongoDB/PostgreSQL (near real-time for 500k transactions/month) and built Go services for high-concurrency workflows, improving TPS by 2.6× and p99 latency by 37%.

TypeScript Microservices Node Golang MongoDB PostgreSQL AWS CodePipeline Terraform New Relic

Software Engineer

Kasasa

Jul 2018 - Apr 2019 (9 months)

Built TypeScript Node/Express REST APIs for customer dashboards used by 40k users/month, achieving 99.5% uptime. Refactored frontend components into a shared React library (28% smaller bundles), improved slow PostgreSQL queries (response times down 82%), and automated deployments with Git/Jenkins (manual steps down 90%).

Node Express TypeScript React PostgreSQL Git Jenkins Datadog Streaming ETL

Software Engineer

KUDO

Nov 2016 - Jun 2018 (1 year 7 months)

Developed multilingual real-time features using WebSockets, Node, and Vue.js, supporting 50 concurrent sessions with sub-200ms message latency. Persisted and scaled backend state in MongoDB using sharding (4× scaled writes) and optimized search/retrieval with materialized views and tuned PostgreSQL, reducing average query time by 73%.

WebSockets Node.Js Vue.Js MongoDB Docker Kubernetes PostgreSQL Mocha Sinon A B Testing NodeJS

Software Engineer

Tech Guys Who Get Marketing

Sep 2015 - Oct 2016 (1 year 1 month)

Built Angular and React single-page applications for marketing platforms, increasing lead capture conversion by 27% across client sites. Implemented REST APIs in Node with MongoDB for 100k monthly visitors, improved reliability with Travis CI (hotfix frequency down 63%), and containerized environments with Docker (onboarding time down 35%).

Angular React Node REST APIs MongoDB Travis CI Docker Accessibility