# Connor Vanderhook

> Senior Software Engineer | Builder

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/connorvanderhook

With over 8 years of experience as a full stack engineer and software leader, I am passionate about designing and building scalable, resilient, and user-centric solutions that leverage cutting-edge technologies and best practices. As a core contributor of an ML-driven fire prediction product, my aim to create a positive social impact by developing best in class solutions and leading teams to successful deliveries.

At my previous role as a Senior Software Engineer at Kablamo, I led the development of several high-profile projects, including a fire spread prediction engine, a log indexing and observability service, a rainbow deployment pipeline, and a social media platform with audio processing capabilities. I applied my skills and expertise in AWS, Go, Node.js/Typescript, Elasticsearch, and various Serverless technologies on AWS to deliver robust, performant, and cost-effective solutions that met the needs and expectations of diverse clients and stakeholders.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Justworks
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Top K Labs LLC
Jan 2023 – Present | Worldwide

### Senior Software Engineer @ Kablamo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Sydney, Australia
- Led the design and build of a fire spread prediction engine with a dynamically scaled model providing near real-time results, and saving +300 analyst work hours per month.
- Refactored legacy log indexing and observability services to improve metrics of the usage and cost for infrastructure processing PBs per month.
- Facilitated rainbow deployments from dynamic multi-branch Jenkins pipeline that enabled +20 engineers to rapidly develop new features in their own isolated production-like cloud environments.
- Developed API and audio processing pipeline in Node.js for a social media platform leveraging AWS Serverless technologies to enable user-generated content, audio streaming, and social features.

### Full Stack Engineer @ Kablamo
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Sydney, Australia
- Scaled an Elasticsearch cluster and related infrastructure for an e-commerce store by optimizing indices, sharding strategies, tuning the JVM, and eliminating slow queries.
- Developed contextual ad-targeting, workflow API, and robust search engine to automate online video distribution for popular media sites in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Built a telecommunication digital storefront as an SSR Next.js application, that provided millions of monthly active users with new self-service features and a dynamic shopping cart.

### Software Engineer @ True Anthem
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Delivering insights and predictions for our customers. Enabling them to develop an understanding of their audience and generate organic engagement
- Developed scalable and performant Big Data social media analytics and automation platform using an event driven micro-services architecture
- Significant contributions to Backend, Front End and DevOps CI/CD pipeline
- Migrated our micro-services from Mesos on AWS to Kubernetes running on Google Cloud Platform Kubernetes Engine

### Team Lead CSE @ True Anthem
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco
- Developed internal tooling, scripts and reports to automate repetitive support, maintenance, and configuration tasks
- Learned to lead by example, motivate individuals with different personalities, administer difficult conversations, and provide constructive feedback through peer reviews.
- Implemented a data driven approach to product support leveraging the power of Kafka Connect, Prometheus/Grafana, and Google Big Query to create a data warehouse and reporting console that provided a holistic view of our users and the issues they encountered

### CSE @ True Anthem
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco

### Enterprise Technical Consultant @ nCino, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Responsible for end-to-end functional implementation of nCino and Force.com platform for our clients with a scope of 500+ users including analysis, build, test, and deployment. In addition to project management responsibilities such as analyzing client business processes, gathering requirements, and delivering best-practice recommendations - I also collaborate with Product technical analysts and engineers to define requirements between nCino and 3rd party business applications or participate in architectural design of new product features to meet Enterprise client demands.

### Technical Consultant @ nCino, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Wilmington, North Carolina
Responsible for successful implementations and configuration of new clients' business processes along with consolidating supplementary applications into the nCino Cloud Bank Operating System. Work alongside a project manager with a shared mission to solve the technical challenges of each implementation project, to drive customer satisfaction through unmatched implementation methodologies and by providing industry best practices.

### Systems Administrator @ nCino, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | WIlmington, North Carolina
- System Administrator: Force.com, Salesforce CRM, FinancialForce, RemedyForce, SharePoint Online, Office 365, Windows Intune.
- Support end-users with IT-related problems in a responsive and service oriented manner. 
- Manage network, domain and equipment infrastructure.
- System Security and Control
- Corporate Compliance (SOC 2 Type I cloud architecture)

### Intern @ nCino, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Wilmington, North Carolina
Responsible for system administration and control over many aspects of the infrastructure including cloud services sharepoint, rackspace, and office 365 which facilitate internal communication and productivity. Also responsible for the installation, validation, and patch management of new software, hardware and server infrastructure. Also acted as point-of-contact for technology help desk support.


## Education
### Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Entrepreneurship and Business Development
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cnnrrss
- Website: https://connorvanderhook.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22