# Brian Roth

> Staff Software Engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Embark Veterinary
Jan 2025 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Embark Veterinary
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineer II @ Embark Veterinary
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Led migration of post-purchase experience web app from Elastic Beanstalk to Elastic Container Service resulting in fewer production outages, safer deploys, and containerized development
- Championed use of Apache Airflow for business-critical jobs leading to 50% runtime reduction
- Implemented full-stack features in Node.js/React to support new SKU and new product vertical launch

### Web Developer @ Unknown
Jan 2009 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Technical Lead, Fleet Software @ Optimus Ride
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Defined overall technical architectures for greenfield services like dispatch system, remote monitoring for driverless fleet, etc.
- Orchestrated Product-Fleet Software team relationship, working closely to plan sprints, backlog grooming, retros, etc.
- Mentored and oversaw a team of six software engineers through bi-weekly 1:1s, code reviews, technical review sessions, etc.
- Nominated as member of security steering committee to create company-wide security strategies, performed NIST cybersecurity framework audit

### Software Engineer, Data Engineering @ Optimus Ride
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Spearheaded new data engineering pipeline and architecture utilizing Apache Airflow, Kubernetes on GCP, BigQuery for batch processing of vehicle data
- Led development and defined requirements of business intelligence system for Product & Operations teams utilizing BigQuery, Data Studio 
- Built tools like generalized desktop authentication module for company-wide use, dataset search tool for other engineering teams to identify datasets of interest
- Reduced data storage costs to avoid exponential growth utilizing caching, intelligent retention policies, Python gRPC proxy between storage buckets and clients

### Software Engineer, Fleet Software @ Optimus Ride
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Led migration of services from Scala Play to Python gRPC alongside Typescript bindings
- Developed remote monitoring system for driverless fleet of vehicles made up of React web apps and Python services utilizing gRPC, PubSub, IoT Gateway

### Senior Software Engineer @ PlacePass
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Directed front-end platform architecture utilizing Ruby on Rails and React with performance, scalability, and modularity in mind (25,000 transactions per minute)
- Coordinated migration from Heroku to AWS infrastructure to reduce costs by 83%/month
- Hired and managed intern/co-op software engineers by providing guidance and mentorship
- Implemented whitelabel, multi-tenant architecture powered by CMS that allows business teams to spin up new partner sites without engineering intervention


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Northeastern University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brianeroth
- Portfolio: http://brianeroth.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-28