# Tristan Eastburn > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/tristaneastburn Software engineer with 14+ years professional experience with emphasis on backend technologies. I'm a natural leader who thrives on problem solving and delivering great products. I lead by example and offer tireless work ethic, pride in my work, attention to detail, being a good person and teammate, and delivering on time. I often find that these are the most important qualities and the hardest to show in an interview. I like smaller companies that genuinely care about their users and have a product that helps people and enriches the everyday lives of end users. These tend to be web or mobile based consumer products. Ideally it has a top-tier dev team with best practices in mind. Great culture and happy, smart, collaborative colleagues make a workplace fun to go to everyday. Spaces I'm interested in working in: B2C, arts, music, health, social good, environment, cutting-edge tech. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Nextdoor Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Ellation Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area » Senior engineer on small team building a custom CMS for VRV admins and partners. » Exposed CMS data via highly available APIs to mobile, living room and desktop apps. » Optimized and scaled the APIs after VRV’s launch and during its fastest growth period. » Worked with petabytes of data in video submission and encoding processes. » Buzzwords: Go, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Linux, AWS, S3, SQS, Microservices ### Lead Engineer @ Life360 Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area » Technical Lead Engineer on backend team serving over 1 billion API requests per day. » Led access pattern optimization efforts to 700 million API requests per day. » Championed automated testing, continuous integration and microservice efforts. » Helped grow backend team from 4 engineers to 12 while optimizing throughput. » Delivered numerous user features, including notification hub and real time messaging. » Influenced growth and education during doubling of company size and reorganization. » Scrum master for 6 months during reorganization. » Buzzwords: Python, Scrum, Cassandra, PHP, NoSQL, Go, MySQL, Docker, NGinx, NSQ, ReST, Pub/Sub, Automation, Concurrency, Tornado. ### API Developer @ Ticketfly Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, CA » Owned Ticketfly's public facing APIs, wrote documentation and assisted third-party developers in consuming the APIs. » Managed and enhanced Ticketfly's high performance search indexing cluster. » Implemented and owned Ticketfly's first Apple Passbook implementation. » Worked closely with coworkers in implementing many features across multiple teams ### Scrum Master, Web Engineer, Cozi.com Development Lead @ Cozi Group, Inc. Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 | Seattle, Wa » Managed the work for one of two teams of eight developers; planned, executed work in a biweekly scrum process. » Maintained multiple public-facing Linux servers with CDN and reliable four stage deployment system. » Built and maintained web service APIs for multiple web and mobile clients; refactored in/outbound SMS system. » Optimized cache, DNS lookups, and overall page load times; combined, shrunk and compressed code. » Built content creation, search, and test tools for internal use by non-developers; interviewed junior developers. » Demonstrated leadership, organizational and independent work skills and ability to plan and complete tasks on time. » Technologies used: Linux, Python, PHP, Drupal, Proprietary CMS, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX. ### Senior Web Project Assistant; Lab Assistant - Academic Computing Department @ Sarah Lawrence College Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 Senior Web Project Assistant (2005-2008) » Designed and coded websites, web-based forms and content management systems for faculty and sub-departments. » Rebuilt faculty websites, refactoring for design, content, accessibility features and W3C web standards. » Demonstrated creative problem-solving skills, ability to work independently, remain organized and self-motived. » Technologies used: Windows, PHP & MySQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and Photoshop. Lab Assistant (2004) » Provide tech support for students and faculty. Troubleshoot software, hardware, printer and network problems. ### Front-end Development Lead; Web Development Intern @ Jango Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 » Implemented UIs based on given prototypes; made, optimized images. » Collaborated closely with design, back-end and business teams to create dynamic, functional, simple Web 2.0 UIs. » Demonstrated teamwork skills, ability to learn new technologies and complete tasks on time in a fast-paced startup. » Interviewed replacement candidates, evaluated technical ability and reported to superiors. » Technologies used: Linux, Ruby on Rails, (R)XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and Photoshop. ## Education ### B.A. in Computer Science, Visual Arts Sarah Lawrence College ### Diploma Roosevelt High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/teastburn - Portfolio: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19xQtrOZELR4U6UC4XGNEExGeJpCi316zF9MJ6oEqG10/edit - Portfolio: http://engineering.life360.com/engineering/2016/04/18/what-powers-life360/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/tristaneastburn JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tristaneastburn/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11