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Sarah Bennett

Software Engineer — Backend & Distributed Systems

sarah.bennett@example.com·(555) 987-2210·San Jose, CA·sarahbennett.com/sarahbennett

Summary

Backend engineer with nine years on distributed systems in Java and Go. Designed the event pipeline that carries 2 billion messages a day, led a zero-downtime migration of 14 services to Kubernetes, and cut $1.1 million a year of cloud spend. Mentors two engineers and runs design reviews for a platform team of twelve.

Skills

JavaGoPythonTypeScriptSQL

KafkaPostgreSQLRedisgRPCElasticsearch

AWSKubernetesDockerTerraformCI/CD

Experience

Senior Software Engineer — Vertex Systems

2022 – Present

Designed the event pipeline handling 2B messages/day on Kafka; cut p99 latency from 900ms to 120ms
Led migration of 14 services from EC2 to Kubernetes with zero-downtime cutovers
Cut cloud spend 28% ($1.1M a year) by right-sizing the Kafka and search clusters and moving batch jobs to spot instances
Maintain the on-call runbook for 30 services; page volume down 40% after alert tuning
Mentor two engineers; run design reviews for the platform team

Software Engineer — CloudMart

2019 – 2022

Built checkout and payments services in Go serving 400K daily orders
Introduced contract testing across 20+ services, cutting integration failures by half
Cut checkout p95 from 1.4s to 380ms with connection pooling and a Redis cache
Shipped the fraud-scoring gRPC service that blocked $2M of chargebacks in its first year

Software Engineer — Finlytics (startup)

2017 – 2019

Built the reporting product's Python/React stack from an empty repo to 60 paying customers as the first engineering hire
Set up CI/CD and a 1,200-test suite that stayed in use until the company's acquisition

Projects

queuelite — embeddable message queue in Go, 2.1K GitHub stars

pgtrace — PostgreSQL query tracing extension used in production at two companies

Education

B.S. Computer Science — San Jose State University2013 – 2017

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