# Kyle Lucas-Rodriguez

> Staff Software Engineer, Security Products @ Fastly

Location: Greater Sacramento, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kylelucasrodriguez

I build fast and scalable applications and services, mostly in Go.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Fastly
Jan 2022 – Present | Remote
Working as a part of the Security Products division

### Senior Software Engineer @ Fastly
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Remote
Working on Next-Gen WAF (Signal Sciences)

### Senior Software Engineer @ Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Hollywood, CA
• Led conversion of backend from a 3rd party lambda to a native Go lambda
• Helped design and implement a new version of our curriculum backend
• Built a parser to convert MusicXML to an internal JSON format
• Rearchitected the progress backend to handle changing content structure
• Golang, Javascript, React, Lambda, DynamoDB, Postgresql, Elasticsearch

### Software Engineering Manager @ I.AM+
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Hollywood, CA
• Managed a small but effective backend services team
• Led the planning and execution of all US-based infrastructure
• Worked with offshore QA and Engineering teams to pursue mutual goals 
• Organized deployment of microservices on a Kubernetes platform

### Senior Software Engineer @ I.AM+
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Hollywood, CA
• Built several highly scalable services for a music streaming platform
• Optimized elasticsearch for voice-first search on a music knowledge base 
• Built tools for fast ingestion of GBs of metadata for service consumption 
• Designed an automated pipeline for nightly music data ingestion
• Managed projects for our MIT interns
• Built a service for managing smartwatch registration and preferences
• Golang, gRPC, Docker, Postgresql, Elasticsearch, Redis, Neo4j, Ruby

### Software Engineer @ goSeek.com
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Los Angeles, CA
• Built a central API for booking hotel stays through multiple 3rd party APIs 
• Built a full-stack login authentication system
• Worked with caching large volumes of hotel searches and results
• Ruby On Rails, Redis, Memcached, Postgres w/ PostGIS

### Co-Founder / Lead Backend Developer @ resound.fm
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Luis Obispo, California
• Designed and implemented data models, built APIs, managed DevOps 
• Participated in business development, marketing and social media
• Ruby On Rails, Redis, Websockets, Postgresql, Puppet, Rackspace

### Web Engineer @ TrackR
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Santa Barbara, CA
• Built a management tool for users to manage their Indiegogo orders 
• Hand built a blogging platform
• Ruby On Rails, Postgresql, ActiveAdmin

### Backend Engineer @ RadPad
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Venice, CA
• Redesigned the backend apartment aggregation service to be 3x faster
• Designed and implemented a realtime messaging service with PubSub
• Implemented the base unit testing framework on an established application 
• Ruby On Rails, Postgres, S3

### Software Developer @ Project Gigit Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Santa Monica, CA
• Built a service using concert data to help promoters identify band bookings 
• Ruby On Rails, Facebook API, Postgresql

### Development Intern @ DOWN Dating & Social Apps
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, CA
• Built a Neo4j graph and API v2.0 for match discovery on 1.3m users 
• Ruby on Rails, Neo4j, Postgresql


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Western Governors University

### Computer Science
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kylegrantlucas
- Website: http://klr.dev
- GitHub: https://github.com/kylegrantlucas

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Last updated: 2026-03-22