# Gregory Aitken

> Software Engineer @ Wealthfront

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gregoryaitken

Backend-focused software engineer. Cal Poly SLO Computer Science graduate.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Wealthfront
Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, CA
Trading Products Team

### Senior Software Engineer @ Ridgeline
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Incline Village, Nevada, United States
API Engineering & Search Teams:
- Implemented a containerized Kotlin service for managing state on a new Kong Gateway-based API platform with 20+ onboarded microservices.
- Hardened the new Kong Gateway’s cross-region high availability architecture to ensure fault tolerance and exceed Ridgeline’s 99.5% uptime SLA.
- Owned and enhanced the legacy NodeJS-based Gateway handling 5M+ API calls per day.
- Operated an application-wide Redis-backed API Cache with up to 10MB+ responses and P95 latency under 3 seconds.
- Pioneered adoption of OpenAPI Specification (OAS) across Ridgeline to define 300+ new RESTful APIs.

### Software Engineer @ Ridgeline
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Incline Village, Nevada, United States
Search Team:
- Rearchitected Elasticsearch data modeling and ingestion by shifting from persistence-layer objects to API models, improving usability and reducing indexing latency by 70%.
- Designed and shipped a containerized Python service ingesting Kafka domain events for 25 model types, enabling real-time updates and eliminating the need for regular full re-indexing.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Apple
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote
Cloud Technologies Team: Developed an automated cloud resource cleanup tool to reduce unnecessary costs on our platform.

### Firmware Engineer Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Folsom, CA
Optane Memory Team: Developed scripts to aid in the debugging process and automate testing.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11