# Tony Ghita

> Senior Software Engineer at Netflix

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tonyghita

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Netflix
Jan 2022 – Present | Los Gatos, California, United States
API

### Senior Software Development Engineer @ Twitch
Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
· Designed and developed first-party GraphQL API and GraphQL support infrastructure.
· Own the Twitch edge, including quality of service, endpoint design, and defining an SLA with Twitch community and partners
· Interface with product and engineering teams across Twitch, advising on API/service design and best practices

### Software Engineer @ Boomtrain
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
· Led engineering effort to stabilize and optimize polyglot micro-service recommendation system

· Designed and built fast, robust, flexible business rules service to surface recommendable candidate sets personalization pipeline (400K op/s, < 10ms tp90)

· System optimizations efforts led to greater stability, faster service response times, and 20% reduction in AWS bill

· Designed and implemented various service front-ends for both external and internal users

### Full-stack Software Engineer @ SHIFT
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Las Vegas, NV
• Helped architect and implement vehicle reservation and management system back-end

• Created real-time in-browser dashboards for displaying instantaneous system state to aid vehicle systems operations team in making operational decisions

• Created a system management application front/back-end for both systems operations and customer service teams

• Helped develop a standardized continuous delivery process across multiple projects

• Technologies used: Java, Ruby, Spring, Rails, Javascript, HTML, SASS, CSS, Redis, PostgreSQL, WebSockets, RabbitMq

• Article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/11/07/armed-with-a-fleet-of-teslas-shift-takes-aim-at-uber-public-transit/

### Software Engineer @ Zappos Family of Companies
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Las Vegas, NV
• Migrated search functionality to a large scale distributed system, leveraging service oriented architecture

• Provided gap analysis of search components during technology migration phase

• Advised development of tech internship program / hiring

• Developed search analytics API and front-end UI which allowed merchandisers to gain insight from search data using Apache Pig on AWS

• Optimized Apache Solr and related search infrastructure for increased stability and result relevancy

### Website Systems Intern @ Zappos Family of Companies
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Las Vegas, NV
• Developed logging functionality for changes in the internal taxonomy system

• Fixed bugs in search functionality and deployed the bugfix release

### Development Minion @ Ann Arbor T-shirt Company
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Ann Arbor, MI
• Developed custom eCommerce features/functionality in Ruby on Rails on top of SpreeCommerce

• Developed software to position art onto apparel and upload products to third-party merchants such as Amazon and eBay

• Developed a customized content management system on top of RefineryCMS 

• Developed a mobile web app and API to facilitate remote custom apparel sales

• Followed test driven development using Rspec and Cucumber

### Automotive Electronic Instrumentation Intern @ Yazaki North America
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Canton, MI
• Performed validation and verification tests on automotive instrumentation panel software

• Debugged panel software and worked with lead project engineers to address issues

• Designed and developed automated testing software for use in future instrumentation panels, saving cost of manual QA

• Created several tools in C# to aide in testing (manual and automated)


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Computer Science)
University of Michigan

### University of Michigan-Dearborn


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tonyghita
- Portfolio: http://tonyghita.com

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Source: https://flows.cv/tonyghita
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Last updated: 2026-03-29