# Ariel Katz

> Software Engineer

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/arielkatz

Back End Software Engineer located in Greater Boston.

Fast learner, highly adaptable, always learning, always up for a challenge. Reach out if interested.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Sun Life
Jan 2021 – Present
- Supported a major effort to modernize and improve customer-facing systems by working with a team to make architecture decisions and implement a greenfield GRPC Go back end supporting new and existing data requests. 
- Increased scalability and reduced latency by migration of legacy PHP business logic to a new Go back end. Involved anti-corruption layer logic, data migration, data validation, and building out all layers in the Go back end from GRPC endpoints to database operations.
- Implemented zero-downtime deploys for a central ETL service.
- Built a new data warehouse for a major greenfield project.
- Engineered an ETL integration with the JIRA API.

### Software Engineer @ Sun Life
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
CloverDX; Snowflake; Typescript; PHP; Go

### Web Developer @ EverQuote
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Boston, MA
Golang; Ruby; Rails; AWS; GCP; Kubernetes; PostgreSQL; MySQL; tiny amount of node.js

### Associate Developer @ Reviewed.com
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Boston, MA
- Worked as a full-stack engineer on all apps in the Reviewed.com ecosystem including the front end and backend apps, content management system, and supporting apps and services.
- Worked with infrastructural components such as Heroku, CDNs; Dealt with scaling settings and metrics monitoring.

Ruby; Rails; Javascript; jQuery; HTML; CSS; Heroku; Fast.ly; Honeybadger; CoffeeScript

### Ruby on Rails Apprentice @ Launch Academy, Inc
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Boston, MA
- Applied Agile workflow processes such as test-driven development, user stories, stand-ups, and code review to the development process
- Collaborated on a full review site build in a simulated workplace environment by working with a development team of peers and engaging in pair-programming
- Applied OOP concepts to coding challenges such as modeling a game of rock, paper, scissors with player and game class instances interacting with each other
- Created unique and dynamic frontends with Foundation, HTML, ERB, CSS, and JavaScript

### Apprentice Millwright @ Local 1121 Millwrights
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Boston, MA
Learn the millwright trade by way of classroom education and on-the-job experience at various industrial sites.

### MIG Welder @ Amramp
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Boston, MA
Production MIG welding of handicap access ramps.

### Shuttle Driver/Package Handler @ FedEx
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | boston, massachusetts
-Pick up freight from courier and transport it to the station
-Sort, scan, and load packages into air freight containers

### Package Handler @ UPS
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
High-speed, high-volume package splitting, sorting, and general handling at a UPS hub.


## Education
### Welding
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014

### Physics
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012

### Physics
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arielkatz000
- GitHub: https://github.com/akatz000
- Website: http://www.codewars.com/users/akatz000

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Last updated: 2026-03-22