# Chris Spalding > Senior Software Engineer at Remitly Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/chrisspalding Back-end and devops focused software engineer with 8 years of experience building SaaS products. Interested in a highly technical position with opportunities for coaching and mentorship. Professional experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Bash, Docker, PostgreSQL, React, Typescript, JavaScript, Java, Go, and Kotlin. Skills: Programming Languages: Ruby, SQL, Terraform, Go, Typescript, Kotlin, Typescript, Javascript, Java Technologies: Kubernetes, Postgres, Google Cloud Platform, Git, Istio, Helm, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana Other Skills: API Design, CI/CD, Project Leadership, Mentorship, Scrum, Requirements Gathering, Microservices Interested in Climate/Green Tech ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Remitly Jan 2023 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States - Designed and implemented automations for a critical sanctions workflow, reducing manual review by 35% - Built and standardized an internal package repository enabling secure dependency sharing across teams. Used by all Remitly engineers - Automated lifecycle management of system IAM roles, preventing account-limit issues and saving the security team hours of operational work per month - Migrated a critical OSS dependency to automated release pipelines, eliminating manual releases and reducing incident risk ### Senior Software Engineer @ Flexe Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 - Led the configuration and implementation of new software to store user data to increase the security, privacy, and availability of the data as Flexe worked towards a SOC 2 Type 2 audit. Implemented asynchronous APIs with monitoring to ensure that data was moved correctly between the two systems - Led design and implementation of a self-hosted feature flagging solution, including the introduction of a new pub/sub system. Chose a replacement for our previous solution via cost estimation and feature analysis, and led the process of stakeholder approval. Reduced cost compared to prior feature flagging solution by more than 30x - Mentored and coached engineers across teams on career development and specific technical topics like Kubernetes, Terraform, and debugging cloud services - Led the formation of a new engineering team, including setting up scrum and on call processes and coaching 4 other engineers new to the team - Led the implementation of a rollback tool that decreased Mean Time To Resolution by >90% - Led the design of multiple features related to integrations with shipping label providers and shipping services, including delegation of the work, reporting progress to stakeholders, and some implementation tasks in Ruby and Scala. ### Software Engineer @ Flexe Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Software Engineer @ Avvo Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area • Full-stack engineer with a focus on the back-end (Ruby/Rails, Elixir, Kafka, Unix) • Decrease overhead and improve tooling by creating code generation tools in Elixir • Build lightweight microservices and API's in Elixir and Ruby ### Software Engineer @ Hitachi Consulting Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Seattle, Washington • Full-Stack Web Developer for client projects at a Redmond-based software company • Develop ASP.NET MVC4 applications utilizing Razor, Entity Framework, MS SQL Server, and JavaScript • Create front-end JavaScript solutions for client projects • Design and update database architecture with rapidly changing client needs in a line-of-business application • Provide SME consulting for web technologies and services ### Computer Science Tutor @ University of Puget Sound Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Tacoma, Washington • Deepen students' understanding of fundamental CS topics through problem solving • Problem solve in multiple programming paradigms and languages (Java, Haskell, Prolog) ### Summer Academic Challenge TA @ University of Puget Sound Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Tacoma, Washington • Teach students from underfunded high schools in Tacoma about various STEM topics such as algebra and simple physics • Help prepare underrepresented students for the college application process in order to increase diversity in those fields ## Education ### B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science University of Puget Sound Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chris-spalding-1a692487 --- Source: https://flows.cv/chrisspalding JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/chrisspalding/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22