# Sydney O. > Senior Staff Software Engineer at Agility Robotics Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sydneyo Staff level, hands-on individual contributor who loves writing Scala and building useful, scalable systems through all stages, from inception to completion and beyond. Interested in working in a remote-first environment. ## Work Experience ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Agility Robotics Jan 2024 – Present | Remote ### Senior SW Engineer III at Trumid @ Trumid Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Remote ### Staff Software Engineer @ Twitter Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Staff Software Engineer @ Twilio Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States 2020 Flex Async Messaging, Tech Lead/IC 2019 Billing Pipeline, Tech Lead 2017 - 2019 Proxy Team, Tech Lead 2014 - 2017 Messaging Team Building scalable, high-throughput systems on AWS using a mix of microservices/REST and streams (Kafka, Kinesis, SQS). Keywords: Scala, Akka, MySql, Redis, DynamoDb ### Senior Software Engineer @ Twilio Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 ### Senior Software Engineer @ JustAnswer Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 Summary: JustAnswer/Pearl is a high volume web-based marketplace providing customers with access to certified professionals in a wide range of fields. Scalability is a key component to everything we do, and development takes place in the context of a complex infrastructure including Redis caching, Rabbit Message Queue, SQL Server, a public/private API platform, and Web Services. Infrastructure Development -Designed/Built an extensible Matching engine for matching Professionals to Customer questions using design patterns to enable seamless implementation of unlimited matching strategies (C#, SQL Server). -Co-designed and built the back-end infrastructure to support a highly responsive and scalable messaging system (C#, Rabbit Message Queue, SQL Server, Redis, Lightstreamer). API/Platform Development -Contributed to building out the Pearl public API. -Refactored core API elements to support Dependency Injection to enable unit testing over integration testing. ASP.NET MVC Development -Acted as Lead for two teams developing customer and professional-facing ASP.NET MVC sites. -Independently created a training program for migrating developers from legacy system to MVC. Personally guided all legacy developers and new-hires through the program to ensure understanding of the system architecture, coding and testing standards. -Created the front-end framework for a new Professional messaging application using ASP.NET MVC but based largely on Backbone.js and Ajax. Other: Member of: -Development Leads -CI Guild -Performance Guild Received 7 Pyramid Awards (each Pearl employee may grant 2 such awards per year to a colleague) ### Senior Software Engineer (Contract) @ InterSkils, LLC Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | USA Developing web application for US Army Corps of Engineers using ASP.NET MVC and SQL Server in an Agile environment. ### Tech Lead/Senior Software Architect/Engineer @ Math Solutions, a division of Scholastic Inc. Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | California Architect and lead developer of a web-based tool for math teachers (https://mathreasoninginventory.com) using MVC3, WCF and Fluent NHibernate in an Agile environment with a highly skilled team of senior software professionals. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Bracket (formerly United Biosource Corporation) Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | San Francisco, CA Senior software engineer in the Research and Development division developing next generation platform components. Developed IVR platform based on Microsoft's Speech Services; developed API for client-facing developers to use for customizing the platform per client. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Gensa Corporation Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 Developed custom web applications for clients using a variety of platforms and languages ### Senior Software Engineer @ California Department of Public Health Jan 2002 – Jan 2007 Application developer for Autism Research project. Web application developer for Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch. ### Principal/Consultant @ WeeNet Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 Architecture/Development on a variety of custom software projects ### Network Administrator/Programmer @ Family Mosaic Project Jan 1997 – Jan 1999 Managed the network, servers, and workstations. Built an application to manage all aspects of both authorizing and providing health and mental health services. ### Programmer/Database Administrator @ Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc. Jan 1995 – Jan 1997 Built the IT Infrastructure (hardware and software) to support the collection and management of data collected for the purposes of pharmacologic research. ## Education ### PhD in Clinical Psychology University of Oregon ### BA in Psychology New College (Sarasota, Florida) ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sydney-o-30830 - Website: https://mathreasoninginventory.com - Website: https://www.safecosmeticsact.org/SafeCosmetics/ - Website: https://rasscle.ext.dhs.ca.gov/RII.web --- Source: https://flows.cv/sydneyo JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sydneyo/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01