# Kristopher Plunkett

> Staff Software Engineer

Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kristopherplunkett

Senior software engineer passionate about tackling complex business problems with thoughtful product development.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ FreightWise, LLC.
Jan 2024 – Present | Brentwood, Tennessee, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Ambition
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Built a chat application integration to handle the most demanding customer workloads and unlock major sales expansion opportunities
- Provided a simple mechanism in the existing UI that calls out to a distributed process to synchronize user hierarchy management with Salesforce saving product administrators hours of manual labor
- Implemented a consistent test runner output format across all unit tests, integration tests, and end to end tests to significantly reduce lead time for changes and utilize automated flaky test detection

### Senior Software Engineer @ Emma, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Nashville, TN
- Served as Tech Lead for the Users and Account Management Team which allowed me to travel worldwide to train new engineers following multiple mergers and acquisitions
- Led the DevOps Crew which enabled me to spend 20% of my time planning and implementing major DevOps initiatives across the organization, including containerizing all of our previously virtual machine based microservices
- Created a new, lower priced billing option for our largest customers by implementing a unique counting mechanism in our usage based billing system that would dedupe redundant data which saved customers tens of thousands of dollars and increased retention of critical accounts

### Software Engineer @ Emma, Inc
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Nashville, TN
- Delivered a redesigned, accessibility approved navigation to unify the application experience across a multitude of frontend applications with distinct UI patterns
- Updated documentation, dependencies, logging and monitoring capabilities for the public API service responsible for essential customer integrations and third-party application development
- Configured custom reporting, honeypots, and reCAPTCHA to harden the security of public forms handling hundreds of requests per second

### Tour Manager @ Bragg Management
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Nashville, TN
- Planned and executed travel logistics with multiple groups including cars, buses, flights, and hotels across the country
- Advanced and managed live sound production for artists performing shows in venues ranging from small clubs to full-size arena
- Collected and reported all financial activity with business management


## Education
### Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) in Music Business
Belmont University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kris-plunkett
- GitHub: https://github.com/kjplunkett

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Last updated: 2026-03-22