# Jack Pierce

> ML Ops at Dandy

Location: Portland, Maine, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jackpierce

Committed to building you something high quality with code

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Dandy
Jan 2023 – Present
Platform Engineering at Dandy

### Senior Software Engineer (Developer Acceleration) @ Wayfair
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Portland, Maine Metropolitan Area
Worked to improve Wayfair engineering efficiency by developing systems for creating automated pull requests, templating new applications quickly, and cataloging existing software.

Worked collaboratively to design, build, deploy and maintain a change-propagation system enabling any engineer to easily create PRs en masse across our decoupled ecosystem, leveraging FastAPI, Tekton, a relational DB, Kafka and React (highlighted in episode 357 off the Python podcast podcast.__init__)

Deployed and scaled Renovate (an open-source tool for automating PRs for updating versioned software dependencies) to 1k+ repositories in Wayfair’s ecosystem, making and facilitating open-source contributions when necessary

Maintained tooling for templating new applications, allowing engineers to create, deploy, and decommission applications in less than 5 minutes

### Software Engineer (Search Technologies) @ Wayfair
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Boston
Refactored Wayfair’s Product Search data pipeline from SQL-based batch system to multi-source event-based low latency data update system supporting 500+ search indexes, leveraging NoSQL datastore Aerospike, Apache Kafka, Dropwizard and Google Guice

Supported 1000+ instances of Apache Solr across multiple datacenters on-premise and in Google Cloud, utilizing the Elastic stack, Datadog, InfluxDB and Jenkins

Optimized Solr instances for query performance and data update speed, leveraging caching strategies, cluster rebalancing, commit strategies and index merging policies

Designed, built and deployed Wayfair’s keyword search spellchecker, written in Python based on Wilbur Et. Al.’s spellchecker at Pub Med

Owned and rebuilt Search Tech’s monitoring and alerting, reducing engineering support time and increasing system resiliency

### Software Development Intern @ Tyler Technologies
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Falmouth, Maine
•	Debugged and made enhancements to complex Enterprise Resource Planning software
•	Built a custom bank reconciliation reporting application for Marin California 
•	Altered database tables, views, triggers and stored procedures and created event XML for data migration

### Computer Science Teaching Assistant @ Hamilton College
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Clinton, NY
Taught students valuable C++ and Python programming concepts
Graded 7-10 assignments submitted by students weekly

### Software Engineering Intern @ CashStar
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
•	Built a full-stack web application using Django for moving packages between AWS S3 buckets 
•	Adapted CashStar’s CI build processes using Jenkins to fully support AWS auto-scaling  
•	Developed unit tests with mocking
•	Developed plugins for Atlassian’s HipChat to improve in-house developer efficiency
•	Worked as part of a dynamic software development team using Agile methodologies

### Summer Research Assistant @ Hamilton College
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Clinton, NY
Helped design, and develop a compiler for an experimental language (CSPy) specifically suited for beginners. Compiler implemented using Python Lex/Yacc (PLY)
Designed software to correctly colorize and indent CSPy in Emacs code editor


## Education
### Computer Science
Hamilton College
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jack-pierce-46b1aa71

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Last updated: 2026-03-22