Eric R Betts

• Portland, OR • (503) 389-0207 • bettse@fastmail.fm • https://EricBetts.org •

Objective

To deliver elegantly designed product solutions, to seek out new challenges and new opportunities for learning, and to demonstrate superior engineering through the use of open source technology.

Experience

Wonolo (Remote/Portland, Or)

Staff Software Engineer, August 2022 - December 2024

• Architected W2 support
• Integrated 3rd party W2 payroll vendor
• Developed support for pre-payday W2 estimation
• Developed SMS to Job Request using OpenAI’s ChatGPT
• Designed and implemented integration of US Gov’t ONET Occupation data set into our system.
• Tech lead and architect on multi-quarter “Modular Labor Order Form” project (modulaized and structure Position data).
• Mentored lower level engineers
• Actively participated in guidance committee for the future of our monolith

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Postgresql, Redis, Buildkite, Nomad, Graphql, React

Netlify (Remote/Portland, Or)

Staff Software Engineer, April 2020 - August 2022

• Maintained Ruby on Rails app serving API and Origin (customer’s sites)
• Parallelized test suite to cut deploy time in half
• Launched fourth generation self serve billing plans for Pro and Business
• Added tracking of non-user git committers to increase enterprise MRR
• Technical Lead for second generation enterprise billing system, automating and capturing previously unbilled MRR
• Mentored engineers across multiple teams, improving the abilities of the whole organization

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Mongodb, Docker, Golang, React, Redis, Lambda

Sightbox (Portland, Or)

Backend Engineer, May 2019 - Nov 2019 (company closure announced Oct 2019)

• Developed serverless architecture for order handling
• Converted email based (higher cost and error prone) ordering system to use APIs
• Wrote AppSync (GraphQL) resolvers to retrieve data from DynamoDB/Aurora Serverless RDS/MS SQL/HTTP using AWS Lambda (NodeJS), velocity template language (vtl), and pipeline resolvers using CloudFormation
• Used GraphQL to retrieve data in legacy ColdFusion codebase as part of modernization

Technologies: AWS (Lambda, CloudFormation, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, AppSync, ECS, SQS, SNS, VTL), NodeJS, MySQL, ColdFusion, Docker, MSSQL

InVisionApp (Remote/Portland, Or)

Senior Software Engineer, July 2016 - May 2019

• Developed React/Redux/Saga SPA frontend for presenting data from flagship desktop app ‘Studio’.
• Developed Golang BFF (backend-for-frontend) for SPA
• Developed Golang Golang service for storage/permissions/etc of Studio presentations in MongoDB.
• Expanded Jira integration support to include on-prem (‘Jira Server’) instances

Technologies: golang, React/Redux, Sagas, NodeJS, Mongo, ColdFusion, AngularJS, MySQL, AWS (Lambda, S3), Docker, docker-compose

IMMUNIO (Portland, Or)

Software Engineer, December 2015 - June 2016

• Worked as part of a cross-functional team to refactor datastore to Cassandra.
• Maintained and extended Crepe (Ruby) based API that powers JS UI.
• Contributed to Python/Kafka based backend event/stream processing system.

Technologies: Ruby, Python, Cassandra, Mesos, Ansible, AngularJS

New Relic (Portland, Or)

Software Engineer (Mobile product team), July 2013 - November 2015

• Implemented ‘Interactions’, ‘Crash Reporting’, and ‘Version Trends’ features for Mobile product.
• Worked with Browser agent team to launch Browser Product (beta) for Fluent 2014.
• Worked in cross-product team to overhaul time series service for rpm.newrelic.com.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, JavaScript(jQuery, D3, AngularJS, React), MySQL, sqlite, Docker, Cassandra

ADP Dealership Services (CDK) (Portland, Or)

Software Engineer II, November 2011 - July 2013 Technologies: PHP, XML-RPC/SOAP, JavaScript (ExtJS, Sencha Touch), PhoneGap/Cordova

IP Fabrics, Inc. (Beaverton, Or)

Software Engineer, August 2009 - November 2011 Technologies: C/C++, asn1c, PHP, wireshark/tcpdump, tcpreplay, Python

Other Skills/Community Involvement

• Bug bounty: $10,000 + $1,337 bonus by Snap, inc for RCE in Snapchat Spectacles (Sunglasses with embedded camera)
• Flipper Zero apps: Author Seader for Flipper Zero, Co-author Picopass for Flipper Zero
• Open source projects: https://gitlab.com/bettse
• Speaker, DefCon 29: The PACS man Comes For Us All
• Submitted patches to: libfreefare, cequel, iso_country_codes, dockerui, asn1c, Wifite, Aimsniff, Pluck-CMS, Elgg, nfc-tools, Flipper Zero Firmware
• Tools: npm/yarn, vim, git, rbenv, rake, docker/docker compose, bundle, make, GNU coreutils, Slack, zsh, Jira

Education

Oregon State University (Corvallis, Or)

• Masters of Engineering in Computer Science, June 2009
• Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, June 2007