# Joseph Smith > Software Engineer Location: San Diego, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/josephsmith Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Node.js, TypeScript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Go, Java, and HTML with interest in application development. Strong engineering professional with a B.S. focused in Computer Science from California State University-Long Beach. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Sony Interactive Entertainment Jan 2024 – Present | San Diego Metropolitan Area Technologies in use: Go, Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Kubernetes ### Senior Software Engineer @ Credit Karma Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Diego Metropolitan Area • Built service to aggregate and render functionality from the Mint budget tracker and planner app within the Credit Karma website and mobile applications. This is a stateless microservice written in TypeScript with a GraphQL API. • Helped design and build a backend Thrift RPC microservice that processes and stores data in a MySQL database that powers the above GraphQL service. • Mentor junior engineers in programming concepts and approaches for writing readable and testable code. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Intuit Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Diego Metropolitan Area • Built backend microservice responsible for converting 1.0 identity profile information to 2.0 identity profile information. The service was built in Java using the Spring Boot and Spring Batch frameworks and MySQL was used for data storage. • Implement performance tests for profile conversions in the above project. • Mentor junior engineers in programming concepts. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Shipt Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area • Designed and built backend for the order bundles service, which creates groups of orders to be offered to contractors. The RESTful service was written in Go, PostgreSQL for data storage, and Kafka for messaging. • Rebuilt the backend for the service that offers orders to contractors. The service was written in Go, DynamoDB for data storage, and Kafka for messaging. • Mentor junior engineers on general technology and programming concepts ### Senior Software Engineer @ Asurion Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Nashville Metropolitan Area • Built payment integration service to integrate internal applications with payroll system using Node.js and the React library for administrative pages and dashboards • Gathered user requirements from stakeholders for payment integration service • Implemented PgBouncer connection pooler in production environment to prevent widespread application outages • Implemented pattern for using private endpoints with AWS API gateway to access resources within a VPC in an existing environment to improve security • Gathered user requirements for content management system to be used by the company and made purchasing recommendation to leadership ### Software Engineer @ Sony Interactive Entertainment Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Rebuild deployment process around data stores using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Chef • Improve monitoring and alerting around data stores • Introduce Hashicorp's Consul as a service discovery tool for data stores • Build LDAP integration and user interface into internal Ruby on Rails application deployment tool ### DevOps Engineer @ Blackhawk Network Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Pleasanton, CA • Work on internal self-service portal using the Rails framework that provides a means for developers to deploy and control servers, environments, estimate costs, and report on costs by group. Technologies in use: AWS, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Chef, CloudFormation, and OpenLDAP. • Build library of Chef automation cookbooks/recipes. • Setup and configure EC2 servers through Rightscale and/or AWS. • Create Apt-Get repo in S3 for Debian based distributions. • Setup MySQL server with Reportico to parse Rightscale usage reports into a format usable by the company. Deprecated in favor of a custom built solution in the self-service portal. ## Education ### B.S. in Computer Science California State University, Long Beach Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 ### B.S. in Criminology California State University, Fresno ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/josephtsmith --- Source: https://flows.cv/josephsmith JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/josephsmith/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22