# Riley Vuong-Gibson

> Software Engineer

Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rileyvuonggibson

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Travel Syndication Technology (TST)
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer II @ Upside
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Austin, Texas, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ ICON
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Austin, Texas, United States
- Architected and developed ecommerce platform backend, in a microservice architecture written in Typescript, using AWS Lambdas and CDK with a GraphQL API layer and DynamoDB persistence, integrated with Stripe
- Implemented user authentication, reservations, payment collections and refunds, product catalog, and error recovery, emphasizing scalability and handling increased customer traffic
- Designed and implemented an event-driven platform feature set utilizing AWS SQS
- Developed and maintained backend services for project management tools, using Typescript, deployed using AWS Lambdas, GraphQL APIs, and DynamoDB

### Back End Developer @ MoneyLion
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
- Developed backend of the core banking product, using a microservice architecture, built with Java Spring, deployed with Docker to AWS ECS
- Architected and implemented event driven platform features using AxonIQ and Kafka
- Designed and developed RESTful API layer, implemented using Java Spring
- Architected and constructed data persistence layers using PostgreSQL

### Senior Software Engineer @ Bright Health
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Developed backend of provider care portal using Typescript, hosted in Azure using Kubernetes and Docker
- Architected and implemented RESTful and GraphQL API layer, including large file streaming

### Software Engineer @ Dun & Bradstreet
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas, United States
- Developed the backend of a SaaS application enabling customers to organize, analyze, clean, and enrich their business data, using Java Spring, deployed with Docker on Apache Tomcat, hosted in AWS ECS
- Implemented big data ETL processing pipelines using Java and Scala on Hadoop and Spark, running on AWS HDFS/EMR
- Designed and developed RESTful API layer, implemented using Java Spring
- Implemented and maintained persistence layers using AWS S3, AWS RDS, MySQL, DynamoDB, and Redis

### Senior Software Engineer @ KUKA
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Austin, Texas Area
- Lead/Supervisory engineer on IoT robotics licensing system feature
- Architected and implemented back-end of cloud IoT platform for industrial robotics, from database design and implementation through API layer, in Scala using Play framework
- Developed server less architecture using AWS Lambdas 
- Leveraged AWS and Kubernetes native functionality to develop complex features and reduce platform
hosting costs; ex. Kubernetes cron-jobs, AWS SMS, SQS, S3
- Designed and constructed highly scalable and robust pipelines for big and fast data for ingestion by our data science team to power our analytics and predictive maintenance feature set

### Advanced Software Engineer @ KUKA
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas
- Architected and implemented back-end of cloud IoT platform for industrial robotics, from database design and implementation through API layer, in Scala using Play framework
- Designed REST and gRPC APIs for the platform, including implementation and authentication, according
to Google style specifications
- Constructed platform in a micro-service architecture, cloud deployments using Docker and Kubernetes,
hosted on AWS
- Developed asynchronous communication between micro-services with Kafka and Akka streaming frameworks
- Leveraged Kafka Streams (KTables and KStreams) and Akka to develop event-driven and streaming
platform features
- Developed data persistence systems with Cassandra, PostgreSQL, and ElasticSearch
- Implementing scalable caching and persistence mechanisms using Redis
- Parallelized robot data decimation in an automated process via Spark using AWS EMR (Elastic
MapReduce)

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Rice University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Houston, Texas
Conducted independent research while working with Dr. Scott Rixner to create the Virtual Deadline I/O Scheduler, a disk scheduler to improve fairness in disk access between virtual machines running on Linux in Xen and KVM; implemented in C, subject of graduate thesis research

### Software Engineering Intern @ Lockheed Martin
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Littleton, Colorado
Interned with Lockheed Martin’s Space Systems Company developing ground software for the Military Support Program

### Student Technician - Advanced Technology Laboratory @ Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Austin, Texas

### Information Technology Intern - NetControl Division @ Union Pacific Railroad
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Omaha, Nebraska


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science
Rice University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22