# Liam Gillies

> Software Engineer

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/liamgillies

Contact: lwgillies@gmail.com.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Kustomer
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
Platform Team

### Member of Technical Staff @ Cockroach Labs
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York City Metropolitan Area
• Created Google Cloud Functions and hosted with Terraform to fix bugs in the developer pipeline
• Used GraphQL and terraformed multiple GCP products to migrate an internal employee tracker tool from BambooHR to HiBob

### Software Developer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Santa Clara, California, United States
• Implemented a Figma UI overhaul to the service’s entire UI/UX with React and Polaris
• Added endpoints and modified existing ones to return data for updated UI with Java & Smithy
• Performed E2E tests on new endpoints & connected them with the frontend
• Worked cross-team to create a fullstack setup document for faster onboarding into development

### Software Engineer Intern @ Cockroach Labs
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Designed and implemented a feature migration to allow database warning alerts to be sent to a customizable list of emails or users instead of the entire organization's email list
• Built new backend endpoints with Golang & Protobuf; worked with the UX team on Figma to build the frontend with React & Redux, and wrote multiple SQL database migrations
• Implemented rate limiting into an endpoint that was overwhelmed when on a certain page
• Added clearer error messaging to an internal support tool

### Software Engineer Intern @ Twilio Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Built an internal Java microservice to block out Twilio console requests originating from given IP addresses in order to prevent console attacks
• Re-designed legacy PHP system with Java, ensuring consistency with upstream services
• Wrote a Python script to migrate old MySQL blocklist database items to the new DynamoDB table

### Software Engineer Intern @ Ironclad, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Designed, debugged, and implemented React components, improving user experience
• Redesigned Dockerfiles with multi-stage builds, reducing image size by 73% & overall build time by 18%

### Lead Software Engineer Intern @ PatentPlus
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Remote
Managed the technical side of an MIT & NSF funded startup. Responsible for the development of an Angular/Node.js web application and worked with a frontend, backend, and ML team to do so.

### Code Coach @ theCoderSchool
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, CA
Taught 60+ students computer science fundamentals through algorithm design and problem
solving with a project-based approach.

### ML Undergraduate Researcher @ Virginia Tech College of Engineering
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Blacksburg, VA
Employed supervised and unsupervised learning methods to classify echolocation soundwaves and determine surrounding terrain.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Virginia Tech

### High School Diploma
Gunn High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/liam-gillies

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Last updated: 2026-04-13