# Derek Lavigne > Senior Software Engineer at Wayfair Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dereklavigne ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer (L4) - Inventory Platform @ Wayfair Jan 2022 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States Lead a team of 6 engineers in design and execution, and worked closely with partner engineering teams, product managers and supply chain operations managers to build out Wayfair's new inventory controls platforms. The team built an asynchronous event aggregation system, which processes hundreds of millions of events per day and is responsible for real-time recalculation of the inventory of all products in the Wayfair catalog whenever inventory affecting events occur. Written in Python and heavily utilizing Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL and Aerospike. - Planned and lead the Incremental build of the platform, transparently migrating inventory calculations for products to the platform as their feature set became available - Reduced the event processing latency by over 99% for high volume event types - Designed/built troubleshooting tools to enable engineers to efficiently diagnose issues ### Senior Backend Software Engineer - Inventory Platform @ Wayfair Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States ### Software Engineering Manager - API Platform @ Wayfair Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States Continued acting as the technical lead on the API team, while taking on the management of the engineers on the team. ### Senior Full Stack Software Engineer - API Platform @ Wayfair Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States Continued my roles and responsibilities on the API Platform team. Took on the role as the technical lead on the API team, a team of 4. Focused on design and project level execution. ### Full Stack Software Engineer II - API Platform @ Wayfair Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States Focused on building a supplier/vendor facing API platform to support automated integrations with Wayfair and the UIs to support client configuration, API exploration, documentation, etc. The platform is still in use by dozens of Wayfair engineering teams and hundreds of clients. Designed and built several supplier order management, inventory and shipping APIs. Acted as an early-adopter and promoter of GraphQL at Wayfair, followed up as one of only a few GraphQL design advisers for the entire software engineering department. Platform build included AuthNZ (OAuth 2.0), GraphQL framework and utilities, client throttling, observability and was primarily built in PHP. ### Full Stack Software Engineer I @ Wayfair Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States Built user interfaces and RPC APIs, including implementing the storage layer, for vendor/supplier facing tools. ### Software Developer in Test @ Digital Lumens Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States Automated QA steps and checks for desktop applications and device firmware for Digital Lumens products. Utilized Squish for crawling a Qt based application and performing regression and requirement tests. Built Python libraries and tests that were used to confirm that the firmware of the products was working as intended. Integrated test reporting with Testrail for tracking test results across product iterations. ### Winter Intern in Mechanical Department @ Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Assisted in the research, testing and implementation of parts new to the MBTA commuter rail. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering Northeastern University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/derek-lavigne-73b35b91 --- Source: https://flows.cv/dereklavigne JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dereklavigne/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31