# Arin H.

> Engineering @ Knowde

Location: Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/arin

Self-motivated engineer and entrepreneur with 10+ years experience as a full-stack developer using mostly Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, AWS, & NodeJS with Serverless Architecture (AWS Lambda).

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Knowde
Jan 2023 – Present | Phoenix, Arizona, United States
o Building B2B software to organize product data for the largest chemical companies in the industry leveraging GraphQL and Ruby on Rails.
o Built a query intent service against a semantically complex chemical taxonomy to power our agent system by translating natural language questions into structured searches and filters
o Created a data change management approval and auditing system to track changes to our ontology data and to support data governance in our workflows
o Benchmarked and tuned hybrid search queries to support data normalization on LLM extraction flows from document data being ingested into dynamic schemas
o Advising our product and design initiatives in grooming sessions to deliver on our enterprise client needs efficiently

### Staff Software Engineer @ HomeLight
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Scottsdale, AZ
o Mentoring mid to senior level engineers on technical approaches, technologies, patterns, and processes
o Created an IaC (Infra-as-code) pipeline using Terraform to efficiently create AWS resources for 7 environments
o Improved service boundaries and team ownership by using Packwerk within fast-paced growing organization
o Setup Kafka cluster in AWS MSK and migrated from legacy Heroku add-on cluster
o Created various bots / tooling to reduce pull request merge time, improve code ownership, code quality, & production monitoring

### Senior Full Stack Engineer @ HomeLight
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Scottsdale, AZ
o Built an ElasticSearch index to store about 2 million documents which received update events from 20+ SQL tables that could be used to provide users with near realtime search experience and under 100ms response times
o Developed an automated user tasking system which listened on change events from various database tables
o Built an eSign integration with DocuSign to send out consumer facing signing sessions from application data
o Developed a distributed event system to stream and store app level interactions using TimescaleDB & Kafka which had peak traffic of around 1,000 events / second
o Created a property, city, state, & zip search service using ElasticSearch from MLS data
o Built a faceted filter and search experience for a loan officer CRM using React & Rails

### Software Developer @ Billfire
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Scottsdale, Arizona
o Developed on serverless architecture using AWS services running NodeJS to interface with React applications.
o Created a batch job that generated a fixed-width NACHA bank file which transacted over a $100M a day
o Analyzed payment history data to track anomalies and worked customer support tickets to diagnose critical bugs
o Built a payment customer portal using ReactJS to manage payment methods and integrated with Chase Bank API  for payment processing
o Led a small team of developers to maintain our primary billing app and broke down product roadmaps to well defined sprint work by removing uncertainty in implementation details
o Created an internal React app to streamline deployment process and automated release notes
o Built E2E prototypes for demos using AWS Gateway Lambda & React for Click2Pay service

### Software Developer @ Software Ops LLC
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Scottsdale, Arizona
o Playing a diverse role in multiple projects such as backend, front-end, and mobile (iOS and Android)
o Prototyped an iOS app to communicate with BLE devices to open a gate
o Optimized Rails applications to scale by cleaning up code for N+1’s and optimizing data joins
o Built a push notification service from a Rails application to ping a mobile phone to report geo-location

### Full Stack Developer @ Basebox Software
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Scottsdale, AZ
o Designed and developed a highly configurable ERP user interface in EmberJS that interacted with a Rails JSON API
o Developed faceted search and keyword search using ElasticSearch and Ruby for product catalog.
o Took ownership of code quality – unit, integration, and automated acceptance tests.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Gap Inc./ Gap
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, California
o  Improved testing automation and design of shopping bag coupon flow using Angular and Java.
o Performed daily stand-ups, code reviews, and mentored developers on using EmberJS.
o Designed E2E application using Spring framework & EmberJS app to help stakeholders visualize product data for shipment route across US/Mexico border.

### Full Stack Developer @ Basebox Software
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Scottsdale, AZ
o Designed and developed a entity resource planning application E2E with Ruby on Rails & EmberJS
o Developed faceted search and keyword search using ElasticSearch and Ruby for product catalog.
o Took ownership of code quality – unit, integration, and automated acceptance tests.

### Web/Graphic Designer @ STUFF2DU LLC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Tempe, AZ
o Obsessing with customers needs and translating that feedback into custom WordPress sites using PHP, HTML, & CSS
o Used Adobe Photoshop extensively to create promotional flyer content for small businesses
o Sought to improve my knowledge in application development


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Arizona State University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### PC Technician
Northeast Technology Center-Afton
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arinhouck
- Website: http://www.arinhouck.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-22