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Ian North

@iannorth2

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Staff Software Engineer delivering scalable, secure cloud systems and measurable product impact.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek engineering roles building scalable, secure cloud platforms where I can drive product impact, mentor teams, and lead architectural strategy.

I am a Staff Software Engineer with 12+ years building high-availability, scalable backend systems and driving product-facing technical innovation across enterprise and startup environments. I have led end-to-end integrations (including Amazon Pharmacy), architected microservices in Python, Node.js, Java and Go, and delivered measurable outcomes such as 30% faster fulfillment times, 25% cost savings, and 99.95% uptime through AES-256 encryption, OAuth 2.0, and multi-zone AWS deployment.

I have architected event-driven platforms, machine learning pipelines, and real-time personalization systems at scale—supporting millions of daily transactions and autonomous ride dispatch. I prioritize cross-functional collaboration with product and design, mentor engineers on security and best practices, and continuously improve reliability and performance using observability, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Staff Software Engineer

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Wheel

May 2025 - Present (1 year 1 month)

Led end-to-end integration of Amazon Pharmacy API and architected prescription fulfillment solutions that reduced fulfillment time by 30% and improved response times by 40%, while ensuring HIPAA compliance and 99.95% uptime.

Python AWS Lambda Kafka Redis OAuth 2.0 Microservices HIPAA

Staff Engineer

Uber

Jun 2023 - May 2025 (1 year 11 months)

Orchestrated event-driven backend systems and robotaxi dispatch infrastructure, scaling throughput 40% to support 10M+ daily rides and reducing per-mile costs by 20% while improving on-time rate to 97%.

Java Go AWS Kubernetes Kafka GCP Microservices Pyspark Distributed Systems

Senior Software Engineer

Uber Eats

Jan 2020 - May 2023 (3 years 4 months)

Developed and scaled backend services and merchant APIs delivering 99.99% uptime, improving menu integration speed by 20% and increasing transaction throughput by 30% for 6M+ daily transactions.

Java GraphQL AWS CI CD OAuth 2.0 API Design Observability

Senior Software Engineer

Zoom

Jul 2017 - Oct 2019 (2 years 3 months)

Rebuilt Zoom's web conferencing client using React, WebRTC, and WebAssembly to enable instant browser access and reduced meeting join latency; implemented backend call routing and monitoring to cut routing latency by 25%.

React WebRTC WebAssembly Go Prometheus Grafana Observability SIP

Full Stack Engineer

Poshmark

Sep 2012 - Jun 2017 (4 years 9 months)

Built real-time buyer-seller chat and notification systems and optimized PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis caching to improve scalability and deployment velocity, reducing time-to-market by 30%.

React WebSockets PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis CI CD Jenkins Performance Optimization