# Fuzz Worley

> Senior Software Engineer | Founded Early Bitcoin Brokerage (Bitcopia) | Ruby on Rails & PostgreSQL

Location: St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/fuzz

Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years building scalable systems in Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL. Experienced in fintech, payments, compliance, A/B testing, growth, etc.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Secureframe
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
- Worked on automation engineering, the backbone of our product
- Built new functionality into a variety of integrations to further automate compliance checks
- Maintained, fixed, and improved a wide variety of integrations including Google, AWS, and Microsoft products
- Built a production data replication and anonymization tool to improve debugging, testing, and environment consistency

### Senior Software Engineer @ EMERITUS
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
- Rearchitected our entire payments system to increase robustness, reduce reliance on Salesforce, and enable new functionality (Ruby/Rails)
- Designed and implemented architecture for Multi Armed Bandit Testing (Ruby/Rails)
- Engineering lead for multiple currency integration into our payments system (Ruby/Rails)

### Senior Software Engineer I @ MasterClass
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
- Worked with another engineer to build experiments for and productize PayPal / Braintree subscriptions, resulting in a 6% lift in conversion and LTV per visitor (Ruby/Rails, JS)

### Software Engineer III @ MasterClass
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
- Backend engineering lead for our referrals experiments (Ruby/Rails)
- Engineering lead for our Pricing experiments which were some of the most critical pieces of work for the business this year (Ruby/Rails)
- Performed technical onboarding for multiple senior backend engineers

### Software Engineer II @ MasterClass
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Reduced our SEO pages’ time to first byte from 5.3 seconds to 233ms resulting in a huge reduction in bounce and increased conversion (Ruby/Rails, New Relic) 
- Built a “category carousel” to help users better navigate and understand our product resulting in a 17% lift in conversion (Ruby/Rails, React)

### Software Engineer I @ MasterClass
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
- Helped design and build the models, database structure, and admin interface for our subscription pricing model, significantly changing our business (Ruby/Rails) 
- Built the API for our pre-paywall pages for iOS and Android apps (Ruby/Rails, GraphQL)

### Software Engineer (Contractor) @ Udacity
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, CA
- Built the API for a scheduling app that replaced use of Calendly, saving money and enhancing customization (Sails.js)
- Designed and developed an application that assists in on-boarding thousands of students, significantly reducing employee workload (Ruby/Rails, JS, HTML, CSS)

### Ruby Programming Course Manager @ Udacity
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
- Created and audited Ruby Programming course materials for accuracy and efficacy
- Mentored hundreds of students through the Ruby Nano Degree Program

### Founder / Developer @ Bitcopia
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016
- Created and operated one of the first bitcoin brokerages (PHP, JS, HTML, CSS)
- Automated order execution, allowing me to handle hundreds of orders per day by myself
- Developed simple swing trading algorithms and hosted them on a raspberry pi
- Implemented and strictly adhered to clearly defined security practices resulting in the loss of zero funds

### Full Stack Teaching Asssitant @ Wyncode
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Miami, FL
- Taught students full stack development (Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Heroku, Git)

### Software Engineer Intern @ Ultimate Software
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Weston, FL
- Contributed to maintaining an automated testing framework tailored for company products (C# / .NET)
- Contributed to a web application for tracking team metrics in JIRA (JS, HTML, CSS)

### Owner / Personal Trainer @ BodyStyle
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Richmond, VA
- Owned and operated my own personal training business


## Education
### Full Stack Web Development
Wyncode Academy
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Economics
James Madison University
Jan 2003 – Jan 2004


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stevenworley

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Last updated: 2026-03-22