# Toby North

> Senior Full Stack Software Engineer | Platform Engineer

Location: Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tobynorth

Senior full-stack engineer with 14 years of experience across a variety of technologies and business domains. Strong background in web application & API development, platform / DevOps infrastructure maintenance, technical code review and documentation, project management, and junior developer mentorship. Highly detail-oriented, collaborative, adaptable, and dependable.

## Work Experience
### Participant @ Recurse Center
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026
▸ Leveraged AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Copilot) to build TypeScript / Node.js system for
encoding rules of original board game, and conducting automated, parallelized playtesting using Monte Carlo Tree Search.
▸ Rapidly prototyped a real-time speech-to-text interface for the Shakespeare Programming Language, integrating the Google
Cloud Speech API with an existing Python REPL.
▸ Started and ran weekly code review meetings for other retreat participants, which faculty adopted as an official retreat event.

### Senior Software Engineer @ January
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Platform Engineer @ January
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
▸ Designed and implemented engineering-wide authorization framework in Python, evaluating and presenting multiple architectural approaches and documenting tradeoffs, and directly advancing company's long-term "single platform" vision.
▸ Led 3-person development team to decouple frontend builds from monolithic build system by creating dedicated pipelines in
AWS CodePipeline / GitHub Actions for each web application and parameterizing a shared Docker container, reducing frontend deployment time by 75% and enabling teams to manage their frontend builds and deployments independently.
▸ Developed and launched new client-facing web application in close collaboration with product team, building React components, GraphQL endpoints, Python / Flask backend service methods to query PostgreSQL database, PyTest unit tests, and supporting Terraform-controlled AWS infrastructure.
▸ Identified root cause of persistent spike in Datadog costs for monitoring AWS EC2 instances after previous cost reduction
efforts had been unsuccessful, saving the company roughly $20k per month.
▸ Introduced IAM group-based access control to AWS organization. Based group permissions on the principle of least privilege, historical access records in AWS Access Analyzer, end-user feedback, and post-launch monitoring in CloudTrail.

### Backend Team Lead @ Health-E Commerce
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Senior Full Stack Developer @ Health-E Commerce
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020

### Web Developer @ Health-E Commerce
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
▸ Led team of 2-4 backend developers maintaining legacy websites (C# / ASP.NET / SQL Server stack) during successful year-long migration to new e-commerce platform, while also regularly providing crucial system / domain knowledge as a technical liaison to third-party contractors tasked with rebuilding those websites on new platform.
▸ Proactively introduced and formalized engineering-wide code review process early in tenure, which became standard practice for all new development, and conducted consistently detailed and thorough code reviews of colleagues’ work.
▸ Improved performance and code maintainability of category and search pages by completely replacing legacy ASP.NET code with modern React components and accompanying REST API endpoints.
▸ Championed recruitment from diversity-focused coding bootcamp Pursuit, successfully hiring Pursuit graduate and providing several months of focused mentorship to them.

### Software Developer @ Vector Magnetics Inc
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015
▸ Developed Android app to view continuous stream of real-time data from main customer-facing application via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.
▸ Worked closely with Google QA to adapt Android app for Google Glass.
▸ Led project to completely overhaul technical user's manual for major software/hardware and served as primary editor for manual upon completion of project.

### Software Developer @ Epic
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
▸ Led project to design and develop method to integrate billing-related information into ASP web app for accessing electronic medical records.
▸ Provided in-person support to customers during go-lives, and gathered feedback for improving web app.
▸ Designed and developed set of analytical reports for health care organizations to track ROI of web app based on volume of orders, referrals, and appointments.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Computer Science
Middlebury College
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-23