# Garth Goldwater

> Product, Performance, and Modeling Engineer

Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/garth

I co-founded a freelance software consultancy and helped grow it from $0 to over $1MM in revenue over the first two years. I hired and managed top designers and developers from places like Google. I’ve worked across the stack—from infrastructure (AWS, multi-tenanted databases), to back-end (Rails, Node, Shopify, PHP, Wordpress, Postgres) to front-end (React, Elm, Svelte, Vue).

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Vanilla
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Baltimore
Modeled estate tax law including federal and state tax exemptions, distributions, and trust ownership over multiple generations of families containing tens of thousands of independent assets being distributed to multiple owners across niche financial APIs. Lead requirements gathering, designed and developed frontend and backend application using Ruby on Rails, Docker, Postgres, Typescript, GraphQL, and React in a SOC-II-compliant environment. Lead the greenfield development of Vanilla AI with Python, GPT, Anthropic Claude, and a variety of vector storage databases.

### Senior Software Engineer @ BLDUP, Inc
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
I worked with an international team to streamline and automate manual entry and review tasks for tens of thousands of scraped commercial real estate data points. Lead requirements gathering, designed, and developed end-to-end, using Ruby on Rails, Docker, Postgres.

### Founder and CTO @ Still Life Studio, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cofounded a software consultancy, bringing it to $1M+ revenue over its first 2 years.

As head architect, I led the technical implementation of a multi-million dollar federal grant project at Northeastern University to create a future-of-learning platform; built and load-tested a website and ticketing system for the Outside Lands music festival; and designed and built a new eCommerce website for a men's streetwear boutique. Most recently, we took a sabbatical from client work to pursue product work and took two products from the ideation phase to early beta, including a text-first seltzer-delivery startup covered by the Boston Globe within its first two weeks.

### Software Engineer @ Colburn Hill Group
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
As a contractor for Colburn Hill, I developed the backend of a billing and reconciliation platform used by hospitals serving thousands of patients across the country.

### UX/Interaction Design Consultant @ Wisp
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA
As a design contractor, I developed a high-fidelity front-end design concept for a mobile app startup.


## Education
### Economics
Marlboro College
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/garth-goldwater-b0159234

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Source: https://flows.cv/garth
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/garth/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22