# Mari McMurtrie > Staff Software Engineer at Rivian Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/marimcmurtrie Over 15-year experience of software development, focused on Python/Java backend, Serverless AWS Lambdas and API development. Proven track record for designing, implementing, testing, deploying and maintaining complex systems from ground-up. Technologies: AWS Lambdas, Serverless, Python 3.8, Java, Maven, Gradle, DropWizard, DynamoDB, S3, MySQL, MongoDB, memcached, Dynomite Redis cluster, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Apache, PHP7, HTTP, PHPunit, Python, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Linux, Git/Github. Specialties: Native in Japanese Have both Business and Computer Science degrees Have data science certification Have work experience in both Japan and US ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Rivian Jan 2022 – Present | Palo Alto, CA Tech lead for the Fintech team in Rivian. Supporting Rivian’s payments and payouts ecosystem end-to-end. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Rivian Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States Building backend systems to support Rivian's digital technology platform, forcusing on payment infrastructures. Leading projects from specification scoping, technical investigation, system design, development, testing and deployment for multiple financial systems which support fundamental businesses at Rivian. - Led payment processor webhook system involving third-party vendor (Stripe) - Led payment reconciliation system, integrating system with Bank of America and Stripe - Leading payment reports generation system - Training and Mentoring level 1-2 engineers - Communicating various stakeholders such as Finance, Accounts, Project Managers, multiple engineering teams, and third-party vendors. Technologies: Python, Java, AWS (Serverless lambda, APIGateway, SQS, EventBus, StepFunctions, Glue, Athena, DynamoDB, S3, etc), Terraform, gitlab, CD/CI, serverless ### Sr. Software Engineer @ SoundHound Inc Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Santa Clara, CA Developed Java REST APIs with Dropwizard framework. Took ownership of multiple Java services including third party proxy service and ad server. Built a brand-new email broker to integrate the third-party email vendor. Developed a new configurable whitelist filter for outbound REST calls. Ported use of Memcached to Redis with Dynamo library. Architected backend Redis data cluster with peer-to-peer relationship. Built a third-party request data pipeline, which uses Kafka for asynchronous processing, Elastic for data storage, and Kibana for visualization. Contributed data collection using Prometheus, Grafana, and AlertManager. Technologies: Java 8, DropWizard, MySQL, MongoDB, memcached, Dynomite Redis cluster, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Apache, PHP7, PHP5, HTTP, PHPunit, Linux, Git/Github. ### Tech lead, internationalization @ Wikia Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, California Built features specific to Japan/Asia market. ### Sr. Software Engineer @ IMVU Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA Building IMVU web applications, including mobile web. Full stack engineer. Great experience for scalability. Front-end: Familiar with 1-page app JavaScript using Backbone.js Good experience in CSS Back-end: Very experienced for Rest API Very familiar with data access layer Great experience for use of storage system - MySQL, Redis and Memcache. ### Sr. Software Engineer @ Simply Hired Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Sunnyvale, CA Lead Small Business engineering team from planning, system design, coding, testing and deployment. Closely collaborate with product managers, business development, QA and operations throughout the software development. Built Small Business product from scratch. Architect the new system including database design, backend server, and web server. Built the new email alert system from scratch. Combined multiple components such as 2 servers(email engine and content rendering), databases, and the backend search service to make the system work. Optimized the entire Simply Hired website through instrumentation. Increased the entire site load speed to 300% in average. Interviewed potential candidates, contribute decision making process for hiring. Trained new hires for the team. ### Software Engineer @ Simply Hired Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 Responsible for several key components of the Simply Hired software stack: Search query preparation and results post-processing for business & presentation layers, localization support components, in-house MVC web application framework, the Job-a-Matic self-serve syndication product, and several critical business logic touchpoints within the system. Supported and refactored many of these components to improve code maintainability. Served business partners such as BusinessWeek, Washington Post, ComputerWorld, Plaxo, Mashable, CNN Money, Forbes, PCWorld, MacWorld, Huffington Post, and MySpace with customized search behavior and revenue sharing . Maintained self-serve Job-a-Matic job sites, providing massive SEO benefits to Simply Hired. Supported the business requirements behind these white-labeled and self-serve sites, such as exposing an extensive set of custom-configurable behaviors and appearance, complex tracking of conversion, performance, and revenue splits. ### Jr. Automation Engineer @ Simply Hired Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 | Mountain View, CA Worked on projects alternately as an intern and as a part-time employee while pursuing a second degree in Computer Science. Developed administration tools for Job-a-Matic web application. Worked with third party developer to expose their ad system as service using JSON remote procedure calls. Created automated unit tests. Developed and maintained job listing web crawlers and associated tools. ### Store Manager @ Aeon Forest, Inc. Jan 1996 – Jan 1999 ## Education ### B.S. in Computer Science, Mathematics San José State University ### B.A. in Business Admin Meiji University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mcmcm - Portfolio: http://www.simplyhired.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/marimcmurtrie JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/marimcmurtrie/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12