# Cortlan Bainbridge

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/cortlan

Software engineer with a passion for web development.  I've worked in embedded systems, infrastructure, cloud applications, and front-end development.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Linktree
Jan 2022 – Present | Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Architected and developed features like music presave as well as a media content matching algorithm used by millions of visitors daily, utilizing AWS products such as Lambdas, Fargate, and DynamoDB.

Improved local development experience for codebases that were previously not able to be developed on a local machine due to the dependence on AWS products.

Created and tracked the metrics used to track success of features used to experiment with additions and to optimize the ROI for our software.

### Software Engineer @ Hy-Vee, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Grimes, Iowa, United States
Developing the future of online grocery shopping with Aisles Online. Built and maintained several federated GraphQL microservices. Creating high throughput and reliability systems using event driven architecture in Google's Pub/Sub.

Delivered new order fulfillment software with a successful rollout to all 250+ stores and transacting thousands of new orders per day.

### Software Engineer @ Principal Financial Group
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Des Moines, Iowa Area
Mentored and onboarded new hires in standard development practices: TDD, refactoring and pair programming. Developed the next generation of cloud based software and architecture. Our team built ground up solutions for the CI/CD of our software.

Modernized a legacy web application for employee benefit management using a Java Spring for the REST API backend and React/Redux for the UI. Piloted a new digital underwriting process for collecting health information from customers to reduce turnaround time on insurance eligibility.

### Power Systems FOCUS Tools Developer @ John Deere
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Waterloo, Iowa Area
Engineering intern that worked on building desktop applications for engineers to set parameters in embedded systems for the basis of all of John Deere's powertrains

### Assistant Network Engineer @ University of Northern Iowa
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Cedar Falls, IA
Maintained security and integrity of over 200 Drupal/Wordpress sites using Python and bash scripts to automate server and site management.

### Application Developer Intern @ Principal Financial Group
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
I work on an Agile team that covers several different fields.  I primarily work on developing web applications written in Java.  I've worked on designing, programming, fixing bugs, and writing tests in tools like BrowserStack, JUnit, Cucumber.  I've spent some time bring older projects up to date by 'Maven-izing' and moving to Bitbucket servers.  I'm also working on the usage of Spring Boot, NodeJS, ExpressJS, and Heroku in Web applications.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
University of Northern Iowa
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cortlan
- Website: https://linktr.ee/cortlan

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Last updated: 2026-03-22