# Wade Coufal > Software Engineer Location: Berkeley, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/wade πŸ’»πŸŽ΅πŸ“ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Notable Jan 2024 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ Twilio Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States * CI/CD Systems Development & Maintenance: Jenkins (Build/CI), Buildkite (Build), Github Enterprise/Github (VC), JFrog Artifactory and Sonatype Nexus (Artifact Management), Docker and RPM Distribution, empowering engineers in the dev-to-deploy pipeline with efficient and reliable systems. * Buildkite Integration & Kubernetes Configuration: Played a key role in setting up Buildkite for the company, configuring Kubernetes infrastructure ensuring seamless operation of Buildkite agents, and integrating ArgoCD for GitOps-driven application deployment. Spearheaded the creation of a suite of Buildkite plugins (Bash, Python) for efficient interfacing with Artifact Management systems, significantly boosting automation and process efficiencies. * Artifact Delivery Optimization: Implemented a new Docker image delivery role, driving the deployment of a global delivery network. Leveraged Terraform for infrastructure automation and AWS to manage resources, including instances and load balancers, across a multitude of regions. This initiative optimized the delivery pipeline, significantly reducing latency and improving reliability for global deployments. * Jenkins to Buildkite Migration Leadership: Directed the migration of thousands of projects from Jenkins to Buildkite, crafting and deploying specialized tooling to simplify the transition and save developer hours significantly. * Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & System Monitoring: Committed to operational excellence through extensive on-call duties, involving SRE practices, system monitoring, and rapid issue resolution. Tools utilized: Datadog, Rollbar, BigQuery. Ensured 24/7 system reliability and customer support excellence. ### Software Engineer @ Twilio Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California ### Software Engineer Apprentice @ Twilio Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California *Reduced company compute costs by discovering hosts that had been out of load-balancer for extended periods and having a Slackbot message the owning user to consider shutting the host down. Created as a Slack App with Python, using RDS to track old hosts. ### Hacker in Residence @ App Academy Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Conduct technical and non-technical interviews for prospective students. ### Musician @ Opera Philadelphia Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 Performed in 5 productions a year across Philadelphia, music ranging from Mozart to Puccini to living composers. Acted as both a principal and section performer depending on the production, seamlessly weaving between leadership and team member roles. Was invited to perform as a soloist at the music director’s festival, Artosphere. ### Teaching Artist @ ArtistYear Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Philadelphia NATIONAL SERVICE FOR CITIZEN-ARTISTS. ArtistYear is the first national AmeriCorps organization that enables artists to dedicate themselves to a year of service to their country. - Collaborated with ArtistYear founders and other fellows in weekly meetings to help structure and design the service program in its infancy. - Volunteered and taught music improvisation to patients at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. - Coordinated performances and events in non-traditional venues across Philadelphia, bringing classical music to new audiences. ## Education ### App Academy ### Curtis Institute of Music ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/wade-coufal --- Source: https://flows.cv/wade JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/wade/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29