# Greg Garber

> SWE @ Netflix

Location: Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/greggarber

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## Work Experience
### Software Engineer 4 @ Netflix
Jan 2025 – Present | Los Gatos, CA
Cloud Infrastructure Engineering - Compute. Scaling things up and down

### Software Engineer @ Netflix
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Los Gatos, California, United States

### Mobile Application Developer @ Cities Gateway
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
Built a serverless cloud-based backend infrastructure, utilizing AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway and DynamoDB to create a RESTful API to create a highly scalable, distributed, serverless infrastructure

Leveraged AWS Elastic Container Service and Fargate to launch docker containers

Used AWS Standard Queue Service to send messages to the lambda functions, simultaneously utilizing the queue as a CloudWatch metric for automatic scaling of ECS tasks    

Integrated AWS Cognito to grant secure user access to the application and used S3 to store user’s social media posts

Developed the applications home page using the Angular, Capacitor, and Ionic framework

### Software Engineer - Extreme Blue @ IBM
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas, United States
Architected and developed an automated onboarding tool for the Financial Services Public Cloud Pre- Sales team.

Tool consists of a client facing questionnaire that takes clients cloud consumption needs as input, 
automatically generating a Cloud Consumption Table, a Bill of Materials, a Reference Architecture, and a Financial Services validated cloud solution. Built using the MERN stack, worked in an agile environment

Built a CI/CD pipeline using IBM Toolchain Pipelines, IBM Container Registry, and Github

Containerized existing applications and deployed securely on Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Service as 
microservices to IBM Financial Services Cloud

Reduced the onboarding process from an average of 2 weeks to 2 hours, depending on negotiation. 
Further improving client relations and allowing for an exponential increase in amount of onboarded 
clients per year

Presented the business case of the onboarding tool and showcased a demo to a panel of IBM executives

### Research Assistant @ University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Social science and computer science research on detection of controversial and hateful
content; additionally improve understanding of misinformation and hate speech. Specifically focused on our nation’s critical racial problems: Stop Asian Hate, Black Lives Matter Prof. Jonathon Corpus Ong

### Software Development Intern @ AuCoDe
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Automated social media scraping using snscrape, praw, psaw, selenium, and graphQL communication; simultaneously bypassing securities and improving time cost by 50% while staying in line with quality standards; python

Designed and developed an interactive plotly dashboard using advanced algorithm design and data structures; capable of taking user input, supplying sentiment analysis, and an analysis of the top 10 keywords/hashtag over a user defined time period. Dashboard used by UMass research teams and sold to Fortune Global 500 companies

Automated CI/CD pipeline as head of DevOps as well as git issue/branch creation using git actions, and the software development life cycle. Automation reduced tasks to an average of 8 seconds per task

Established development culture by placing precedents on the development process including format, testing, github using gitflow, all while creating a collaborative cross-functional environment with the software, business, and product management sectors

Performed large scale data analysis of over 20,000 social media posts on celebrity sentiment over a 6-month period and explored potential causes for differing sentiment from similar controversies: data engineering + data science

### Research Assistant @ University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Assisted Prof. Shalini Bahl in mindfulness research and applied studies to mindfulness
groups at UMass Amherst

### Consulting Intern @ Know Your Mind (Previously The Reminding Project)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Serving Fortune 500 clients working across a range of business functions and industries, developing strong communication skills from engagements with customers

Identified and defined clients’ operating problems, assessed client needs and multitasked scoping engagements, designing and developing work programs, and proposing engagements

Designed and documented end-product specifications that support downstream development


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Economics, Business Administration and Management
University of Massachusetts Amherst

### Course Certificate in Web Design
Zero To Mastery Academy


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31