# Rex Petersen > Senior Software Engineer at Leverage Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rex Fullstack Senior Software Engineer with a passion for JavaScript, cloud computing, learning, and mentoring. https://github.com/h3dg3-Wytch/ ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Leverage Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States Development of ETL Event Driven architecture in AWS via Kinesis and Lambda derived serverless patterns. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Medly Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States Provisioned infrastructure for developers and their associated services via CDK, and CDK for terraform. Built MyDelivery, an app that allows the scheduling and delivery of prescriptions for users. Created the infrastructure using CDK, using Amazon SQS, Lambda, and API Gateway to set up a data pipeline for a TypeScript React with Redux App Front End. Deployed via AWS Code Pipeline. Created a service mesh with Graphql Mesh that allowed remote graphql access to various APIs within the company. Built out the authentication platform with OKTA to create system wide profiles via graphql with our profile graphql service. Designed and worked on the front end of various projects, creating MyMedly. MyMedly was an app to assist with patient info and ordering. Building out the components, testing, and wiring up custom hooks to speak to our service mesh. Maintained B2C Infrastructure throughout the entire technical ecosystem. ### Lead Software Engineer @ The Home Depot Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Austin, Texas Area Built delivery/installation, appliance bundling experiences for Home Depot generating 18 million in profit for The Home Depot. Release coordinator for Browse Optimization squad, over-seeing deployment and pipeline management at a national level. Full stack development with an emphasis on semantic web, heavy utilization of Solr. Implemented analytics services that logged and categorized errors throughout entire technical ecosystem. ### Software Engineer @ Kibo Commerce Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Dallas, Texas Creation and deployment of Docker containerization services. Created app with Vault that encrypted sensitive interactions between microservices. ### Junior Software Engineer @ Tyrannosaurus Tech Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Atlanta, Georgia Wrote a Javascript API to lock asynchronous operations. Emphasis on test driven development, and pair programming. Worked on Ruby on Rails for web development and React Native for mobile ### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Georgia State University Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Georgia State University Taught, and graded for CSC 1302. A second semester programming course for freshman at GSU. Tutored the entirety of a computer science degree at the CS tutor center. ### Java Developer @ Online Insight Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | 84 Walton Street Spring/Spring Boot development ### Research Assistant @ Georgia State University Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Tutored graduate, and undergraduate on how to program, Discrete Math, Assembly Programming, Scripting, Advanced Data structures, and Algorithms Assisted professors with research projects Created R scripts to help data mine various projects with the biology department ### Junior Software Engineer @ A-AAccess Online Payment Systems, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Atlanta, Georgia Interact with product management, development teams and team members to generate a strong understanding of the project and testing objectives Conduct functional and manual testing of new rollouts, bug fixes, existing features and end-user operations Create and execute test scripts and cases that will determine optimal system performance Document, diagnose, track and escalate technical use cases in a timely and efficient manner Submit ideas for the continual improvements of processes and procedures within QA in order to improve quality, reduce risk, and increase efficiency Research technology that could improve quality, performance, usefulness and robustness in the system Set up clients on proprietary solution Troubleshoot installation and error messages for various integrated programs (POS) Follow up with customers on their installation Assist customers in correcting transactions Complete maintenance on workstations as needed Perform minor network maintenance Support merchants with terminal downloads Assist interoffice employees via a ticketing system ## Education ### Bachelor's of Computer Science in Computer Science Georgia State University Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ### High School Diploma Henry W. Grady High School Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rexpetersen --- Source: https://flows.cv/rex JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rex/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20