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Tanner Caffrey

@tannercaffrey

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Fast-learning software engineer with a unique humanities perspective.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a role that values innovation and collaboration, allowing me to contribute to meaningful projects.

As a software engineer with over 6 years of professional experience, I thrive in dynamic environments where I can leverage my unique humanities perspective to create vibrant, human-centered projects. Currently, I work at Publicis Sapient, where I contribute to major client projects, shifting fluidly between backend engineering, full-stack development, and product management. My work has led to significant improvements, such as reducing analyst query times by 50% through the design and delivery of modular microservices.

In addition to my technical contributions, I take pride in my role as a partial product manager, where I enhance ticket triaging times and improve the clarity of technical stories. My commitment to fostering a collaborative workplace is evident through my involvement in the Boston Office Culture team, where I help plan events that strengthen cross-functional relationships. I also lead the Boston office's Egalité chapter, advocating for LGBTQ+ inclusion and support.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Software Engineer II

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Publicis Sapient

Feb 2020 - Present (5 years 5 months)

Contributed to major clients under contract, shifting fluidly between backend engineering, full-stack development, production support, and product management. Designed and delivered modular microservices for multiple clients using Kafka, GraphQL, AWS, and Spring Boot, replacing a legacy Java / Hibernate monolith.

Java Spring Boot Kafka GraphQL AWS SQL Splunk Microservices Product Management

Video Transcoding Engineer

Vimeo

May 2020 - Aug 2020 (3 months)

Refactored FFprobe's C code into a lightweight Cgo library, replacing CLI invocations with in-process calls to cut analysis latency by 33%. Rapidly learned Rust and contributed to their open-source AV1 encoder/decoder, improving codec performance.

C#)Cgo Rust FFprobe Codecs Go)CGO

Software Development Engineer

EagleView

Jan 2020 - May 2020 (4 months)

Developed and maintained back-end systems using PHP, Docker, and Go to ingest, store, index, and serve millions of GIS-tagged aerial images daily. Architected pipelines in Go to migrate on-premises data into S3, achieving a 300% boost in throughput.