# Garrett Crawford

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/garrettcrawford

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Forge
Jan 2023 – Present | United States

### Software Engineer @ BitGo
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Full Stack Engineer @ SugarCRM
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | United States
- Built a message queue service via Go to asynchronously stream data model updates to downstream consumer services for further processing
- Made significant resiliency improvements to a system of several Node.js-based microservices, helping to increase customer retention of a popular product
- Implemented Jaeger distributed tracing in a complex microservice-based architecture to help visualize message propagation and significantly improve debugging power
- Incorporated a new Node.js microservice into an existing architecture to rapidly stream recently published data via Kafka topics to interested consumers
- Created various CLI tools in Go and Bash to help probe and debug live microservices in independent Kubernetes clusters, significantly increasing developer productivity 
- Used Spinnaker CD to deploy Docker containerized microservices from staging to production environments
- Used Grafana dashboards to analyze microservice runtime metrics reported by Prometheus to help configure Kubernetes pod CPU/Memory requests and limits to reasonable levels
- Helped build a React-based microfrontend to display live custom model data to consumers in a large system
- Updated MySQL schemas in existing databases via migrations to include additional metadata to help strengthen system resilience

### Game Engineer Intern @ Game Closure
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, California
- Worked on popular Messenger and Line instant games "EverWing" and "BattleCats"
- Created custom game progression features for efficient testing of game quests
- Propagated events to Messenger for QA builds to help confirm state of game progression
- Served as lead engineer with interns to build a clone of the game "Ballz" with exotic features
- Produced simple games on the HTML5 Canvas to test the Game Closure Devkit APIs

### Software Engineering Intern @ Kasten
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Created a CLI in Go to specify and trigger policy flow pipelines to protect Kubernetes applications
- Added RESTful APIs to monitor snapshot and backup policies of Kubernetes applications
- Used Kubernetes CLI to oversee Docker container activity in Kubernetes clusters on AWS
- Built backend endpoints to calculate statistics on active policies to display on user dashboards
- Explored Go linters and added features to internal build scripts for stronger linting

### Mathematics Tutor @ Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Worked as a math tutor in the Math and Science Resource Center at De Anza College, helping many students from all levels of math from algebra to calculus.

### Club Officer @ Developer's Guild
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | De Anza College
Served as a club officer of the Developer's Guild (programming club) at De Anza College. I helped inspire many club members to bring their innovative ideas to life.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
UC San Diego
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019

### Computer Science
De Anza College
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22