# Angelo Girardi > Back-end Engineer at Onebrief Location: Austin, Texas, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/angelogirardi Full stack engineer with previous experience in a number of technologies. I enjoy expanding my skills, developing side projects and relaxing with some video games. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Onebrief Jan 2025 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States ### Founder @ Cooked Jan 2024 – Present Creating an incredible social cooking experience on iOS and Android using react-native. ### Staff Full Stack Engineer @ Shiftsmart Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Los Angeles, California, United States - Led a team to introduce event-driven micro-service architecture, utilizing a Kafka queue, a new dedicated listening service and dedicated NoSQL Database the first of it's kind internally. - Rewrote the application's authentication flows decreasing app start times by 25%. - Led an initiative to replace the notification infrastructure in place at the company and move to a new provider (Braze) saving the company over $2M a year in billings. This growth targeting increased are app reengagement metrics by 75%. - Introduced proper isolated build targets for staging/local development/production within Xcode and Google Play making QA and development of third party integrations faster and safer to test. - Introduced Datadog instrumentation for the React-Native application and created scheduling, dashboarding, alerting and runbooks for the on-call rotations. ### Senior Software Engineer @ GOAT Group Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States - Worked in GoLang with event driven microservice architectures and a legacy ruby on rails monolith. - Designed and executed on an image service designed to inteligently serve the best content type, remove the background of an image and provide a proper crop of the item in frame on the fly. Designed in GoLang with bimg framework, this was released at scale to 100k daily traffic with a design that required over 35 images w/ transperency support on the goat.com homepage. - Worked on a rewrite of currency support for proper SEO for Google Shopping item support with live updates since goat.com was a 2 way bidding marketplace. End result achieved a 15% uplift in Google Shopping search click throughs. - Helped optimize vercel server side rendering performance for the homepage rewrite, allowing us to serve 20% more traffic per server box. ### Member Of Technical Staff @ PayPal Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States Honey was acquired and my role changed Still working on the iOS Platform Team for Honey creating native shopping and WebView based experiences ### Software Engineer III @ Honey (joinhoney.com) Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Los Angeles, California Optimized react-native iOS app leading to 40% less dropped frames. Delivered react-native to swift migration resulting in higher platform stability and decreased downtime. Improved metrics discovery and analysis delivering to single pane of glass dashboard aligning to a shift-left optimization initiative. Led accessibility initiatives including dynamic font scaling, and voiceOver support. Delivered a custom on-the-fly image resizing API to help scale our back-end and decrease our client-side data usage. Tech/Skills: React-native, Swift, GCS, BigQuery, Kubernetes, node.js, goLang, agile ### Senior Software Engineer @ Dow Jones Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York Worked on several projects within the company with a focus on Node.js services and NoSQL caching on a production level for the Wall Street Journal APIs. - Worked on the launch of the open source Coral Talk Project on the Wall Street Journal to replace an existing third party solution. Skills: Node.js, ETL data, MongoDb DevOps, and production optimizations. - Helping implement best practices for large scale teams such as Git flow release strategies and proper sem-versioning ### Back-End Development @ GE Aviation Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Cincinnati, Ohio -Working on creating and designing a NoSQL database, based in Cassandra, with most of the focus on the schema design for a performant and flexible Web API -Writing Node.js based micro-services to access the NoSQL database. The focus was on creating a dynamic with easily query-able services. - Working in an Agile environment ### Contracted Full Stack Developer @ RiserU Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cincinnati, Ohio Created a platform/marketplace to allow for NCAA athletes to find student athletes (K-12) to coach, while retaining compliance with NCAA policies. Built a full-stack web platform using the React.js framework, along with React-Redux for client-side storage. - Created a secure back-end server API to interface with based on Node.js and MongoDb, using the JSON Web Token standard for authentication. Features included: - Location based queries. - Login with facebook/google account functionality - A full-featured message service between users. - A Stripe integrated marketplace to sell coaching, to student athletes. - Complex role based authorization to allow student athletes to find and contact coaches, but not the other way around. - A real-time message parser to avoid the sending of personal details from either coaches or children/parents. - Google Maps integration for picking a practice location. - Required web-based location check-ins for coaches to avoid paying out no-shows. ### Co-Founder / Tech Lead @ Capsule Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Covington, KY Capsule is an augmented reality social network, posting things in real time in the world around you. Managed AWS Deployments, including a production-level MongoDb cluster. Built core social network features: public and private groups, a friend request system, and functions for finding locally trending content based on weighted algorithms that push this optimally timed information to the user. Tech: Node.js, Express, Mongoose, MongoDb, GeoJson, Basic-Auth, APNS, AWS ### Contract Software Developer @ Wyzerr Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 In six weeks, I rebuilt platform from the ground up, as my first full-stack solo contract. I started by creating a web-platform UI front-end using React.js (JSX), and I/O.js this created a scalable, dynamic yet smooth UI that was fast, data-effecient and responsive. I then built the back-end as a RESTful-API, using Node.js and Express for the server, Mongoose for data modeling, and MongoDb for data storage. Skills: ReactJS, JSX, IO.JS, HTML5, SASS (CSS), Node.js, Mongoose, MongoDb ### Software Development Intern @ MusicPlay Analytics Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 I was the second programmer on the team. I with expertise in the back-end server and web services. I did a lot of full-stack development, working with dynamic web applications, and RESTFUL API services. My last month was spent programming C++ device code. Main tools used: (Node js, Mongoose, MongoDB, Express server, ReactJS, Bootstrap. ## Education ### Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Computer Engineering University of Cincinnati Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ### Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Computer Engineering University of Dayton Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 ### St. Edward High School Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/angelogirardi --- Source: https://flows.cv/angelogirardi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/angelogirardi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22