Jake Goritski

Experience
Senior Software Engineer · HeadSpin · USA (Remote)
Mar. 2022 - Dec. 2025

  • Maintained and developed performance improvements to the database replication system responsible for replicating performance data from internal database to internally provisioned or customer provided database, supporting MySQL, Postgres, and Redshift.
  • Developed archival tools and libraries for compressing performance data from already completed tests into various combinations of CSV and JSON, as well as supporting multiple types of compression in cloud or local file storage.
  • Developed multi-threaded daemon services making use of Redis queues for state management to handle automated data replication, deletion and cleanup of old data, and archiving and compressing less frequently accessed performance data.
  • Migrated backend endpoints to use async and created an async version of the core websocket client.
  • Wrote multiple command line tools with Click for archiving and querying, fetching, and streaming archived data, as well as interacting with archive jobs in progress.

Senior Software Engineer · Smallhold · Brookyln, NY (Remote)
Mar. 2021 - Jan. 2022

  • Automated the collection of environmental sensor data from Raspberry Pi mushroom microfarms over MQTT into CSVs in cloud storage.
  • Developed prototype backend services for controlling microfarms by sending MQTT commands and receiving environmental data, storing data and command history in a time-series database, and web API endpoints.
  • Developed daemons and UIs to run on the next generation of microfarm controllers that would interface with industrial PLCs over MQTT, responsible for receiving commands and updating sensor data over the internet and contained a web interface for local or VPN accessible management.

Software Engineer · FindMine · Manhattan, NY (Remote)
May 2020 - Nov. 2020

  • Lead the adoption of GraphQL for use in new Flask micro-services API, working closely with front-end developers, and writing test suites for smooth TDD process with a fully remote team.
  • Maintained AWS infrastructure-as-code setup using Terraform.

Software Engineer · DrChrono · Baltimore, MD
Jan. 2017 - Oct. 2019

  • Developed HIPAA-compliant APIs with Django and web interfaces in AngularJS, jQuery, and Elm for medical billing and coding operations.
  • Maintained legacy automations and parsing tools for HL7 medical health data exchanges.
  • Administered separate AWS environment for marketing hosting Apache Airflow on an EC2 instance running custom integrations interfacing with various lead generation tools and DOMO for in-depth analysis.
  • Migrated Django REST framework API endpoints to GraphQL.

Performance Automation Engineer · Apple · Santa Clara, CA
Jan. 2015 - Sept. 2015

  • Developed test automation scripts for performance related workflows on pre-production MacOS hardware.
  • Ran continuously monitored batched runs of scripts on bleeding edge hardware and software builds, adapted scripts to account for bugs, and filed bugs.
  • Created GUI applications for monitoring and executing workflows.

Education
App Academy · Full-stack Web Development, 2015

Ruby on Rails, SQL, Backbone.js
Web design skills to take PSD designs and adapt to HTML/CSS

University of Rochester · BSc. Mathematics, 2014

Distinction in Mathematics
Theatre production and performance

Skills
Go, JavaScript, Python, Bash, SQL, HTML/CSS, Django, Ruby on Rails, Linux, Testing, Automation, Build tools, Databases, Web design