# Gabriel Odess-Gillett

> Software Engineer with an enthusiasm for Ruby on Rails, TDD, and elegant code.

Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gabrielodessgillett

15+ years full-stack experience with Rails/PostgreSQL/JavaScript/TDD

Graduated top of his class from the Electrical and Computer Engineering program at UMass Amherst in 2008. Since then he has specialized in architecting and developing web applications with an attention to detail and flexibility that allows applications to grow and change as they find their shape.

Gabe has also developed a passion for strong communication, acting as a mentor for junior engineers and acting as a team lead to help coordinate delivery of features across multiple engineering and product teams.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer Team Lead @ PrizePicks
Jan 2024 – Present | United States

### Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead @ Sana
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | United States
- Technical lead focused on ingestion, processing, and adjudication of health insurance claims data. 
- Root cause error analysis and solutioning
- Data transfer management between healthcare partners with various healthcare data formats including EDI, CSV, MRF
- Dividing monolithic codebase into domain driven isolation

Tools: Ruby on Rails · PostgreSQL · JavaScript · React · Technical Leadership · Test-Driven DevelopmentSkills, AWS, DataDog, Jira, Confluence, Git

### Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead @ Workrise
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
- Transitioning Ruby on Rails monolith to NodeJS micro-services architecture
- Greenfield application architecture and development
- Mentoring junior developers
- Team lead responsibilities communicating with product and managing feature delivery for a team of 5 engineers.

Tools: GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, SOPS, Kafka, Git, Jira, Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, NestJS, MikroORM, TypeScript, TypeORM, GraphQL, Apollo, Microservices

### Software Engineer @ Velocity
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Austin, Texas Area
- Architected and developed bots for fortune 500 companies
 - Interfaced with clients to understand specific automation needs
 - Developed features on a Microsoft PowerPoint plugin
 - Architected and developed internal framework to improve development team

Tools: Automation Anywhere, UiPath, C#, .NET, WPF, VSTO, MVVM, VBA, VBScript, Git
Experience: Client engagement, Agile development, TDD

### Full Stack Engineer @ Freelance
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Velocity Growth (https://velocityrpa.com/)
- Advised and reviewed work form junior developers
- Integrated chat bots through Slack and Facebook
- Implemented e-commerce solutions through Domino's, 1800Flowers, and Stripe APIs
- Developed a phone recording bank with Twilio

DayMaker
- Architected database structures to support complex relational queries
- Mentored junior developer

CodeMentor (https://www.codementor.io/)
- Mentored developers with 1-on-1 support

Tools: Ruby on Rails, Heroku, Bootstrap, jQuery, Stripe, Twilio, Slack API, Facebook Chat API, Domino's API
Experience: E-Commerce, Data Scraping, API Integration, Mentoring

### Full Stack Engineer (Co-Founder) @ Share Coffee Roasters
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Hadley MA
https://www.sharecoffeeroasters.com

- Architected an e-commerce solution using Stripe
- Developed a USPS shipping solution
- Collaborated with coffee roasting experts to build tools to support daily roasts
- Developed inventory tracking systems

Tools: Ruby on Rails, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Stripe, jQuery, Sass, Shippo
Experience: E-commerce, Inventory tracking, Automated shipping, TDD

### Full Stack Engineer (Co-Founder) @ CitySprout
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Northampton MA
- Developed order fulfillment tools used by farmers to provide weekly demand
- Developed custom user shopping and cart/checkout tools
- Integrated with Stripe's API for payment processing
- Implemented routing tools through Google's API to plan delivery routes
- Mentored junior developer

Tools: Ruby on Rails, Heroku, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap, jQuery, Stripe, Sass
Experience: E-Commerce, TDD, Mapping/Navigation

### Developer @ Fuzz Productions
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
- Architected a news wire to publish articles and video content.
- Architected an interactive mapping service to show custom waypoints over a map with associated audio/visual content.
- Worked in a fast-paced agency and was able to manage time across multiple projects.


## Education
### BSEE in Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jan 2004 – Jan 2008


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gabriel-odess-gillett-79a760a

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Last updated: 2026-03-22