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Houston Hoffman

@houstonhoffman1

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Senior full stack engineer building scalable serverless APIs and high-performance Vue frontends.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a team where I can architect maintainable, scalable APIs and frontends—using AWS serverless and modern Vue/CI/CD—while owning reliability, performance, and documentation to ship faster with less technical debt.

I’m a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 10+ years building backend and frontend web applications. I deliver scalable APIs through serverless architectures (AWS API Gateway and Lambda) and modern Vue.js frontends on Vercel, improving latency, reliability, and release speed.

I focus on maintainable code, thoughtful database schema and API design to support scalability and faster time-to-market while reducing technical debt. In recent roles, I’ve improved CI/CD and testing strategies, strengthened monitoring and error handling (e.g., Sentry), and used performance profiling and automation to cut costs, reduce errors, and accelerate feature rollout.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Insight Global

Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 2 months)

Architected a Vue.js frontend on Vercel, refactoring components to improve rendering efficiency and decrease median first paint by 38%, accelerating feature rollout by 3.2x. Migrated a monolith to serverless Flask APIs behind API Gateway and Lambda, cutting hosting costs 47% and reducing request latency 22%.

Vue.Js Vercel Flask API Gateway AWS Lambda RDS CI CD

Senior Software Engineer

Bright Ops

Mar 2019 - Nov 2023 (4 years 8 months)

Architected Flask microservices and API designs for operations automation, enabling webhook integrations that reduced manual tasks by 62% and improved time-to-resolution. Built Python serverless workflows with API Gateway and Lambda to cut infrastructure spend 41% while scaling throughput 2.8x.

Flask Microservices API Design API Gateway AWS Lambda RDS SQL Query Optimization CI CD Observability

Software Engineer

DoorDash

Jun 2016 - Feb 2019 (2 years 8 months)

Built Python REST services and API designs for logistics features, improving route calculation throughput and reducing average request latency by 29% across delivery workflows. Implemented CI/CD with integration testing to reduce production defects, lowering post-deploy incidents by 36% while improving deployment velocity.

Python Flask RESTful APIs RDS CI CD Integration Testing Performance Profiling Monitoring

Junior Software Engineer

Brex

Jun 2014 - Mar 2016 (1 year 9 months)

Developed Django and Python services for internal financial tooling, implementing secure RDS-backed models and reducing reconciliation errors by 28% in payments flows. Improved CI reliability with unit and integration testing (22% higher CI pass rates) and optimized SQL and migrations to reduce finance report latency by 48%.

Django Python SQL RDS Unit Testing Integration Testing CI CD Monitoring And Alerting