Theodore (Tripp) Weiner

[email protected] | Chicago, IL (Remote)
LinkedIn | GitHub | trippw.com

Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years building scalable distributed systems. Specialized in Go, Python, and AWS cloud infrastructure. Track record of reducing costs by 75% and deployment times by 95% through architectural optimization and automation.

> Skills

Distributed Systems Go (Golang) Python C# AWS (Lambda, ECS, RDS, S3, SQS, SNS) Terraform Microservices Architecture Docker System Design REST APIs MySQL ElasticSearch/OpenSearch Event-Driven Architecture CI/CD Kafka PHP

> Experience

Built In | Staff Software Engineer

Mar 2022 - Present · 4 yrs

Remote · Full-time

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Staff Software Engineer

Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr
  • Led initiative introducing an advertising product generating 15% increase in annual deals through improved job visibility and analytics
  • Migrated payment processors from Authorize.Net to Stripe, modernizing subscription model and doubling profitability of self-service jobs
  • Identified and resolved system-wide memory leak, reducing compute costs by 40% annually
  • Established Staff Guild driving cross-team standards: introduced code ownership and integration test coverage, drove test coverage from <1% to 60%, improved MTBI from 7 days to 30+
  • Established observability and reliability foundations: introduced metric storage, automated alerting, integration tests in CI/CD, and queue-based decoupling of fragile systems -- reducing MTTR by up to 70x, from 48-72 hours to under 1 hour
  • Led .NET 10 upgrade across multiple repos and Lambda infrastructure
  • Technologies: C#, Go, Python, AWS, Terraform, Docker

Senior II Software Engineer

Mar 2024 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr
  • Increased job email engagement by 60% through KNN-based recommendation system
  • Accelerated email generation from 3 days to <2 hours for 1M+ users via AWS Lambdas
  • Reduced infrastructure costs by 50% through autoscaling and resource optimization
  • Further optimized job ingestion by 6x (~4h to <40 minutes) despite doubling events through cluster isolation, process scale out, improved text parsing, and earlier filtering
  • Technologies: C#, Python, Terraform, Golang, AWS

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2023 - Mar 2024 · 1 yr
  • Accelerated job ingestion 6x (23.5h to <4h) through algorithmic optimization and distributed processing
  • Led the design and implementation of a scalable event-based email newsletter system using AWS (S3, SNS, SQS, Lambda, SES, ECS, RDS, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, Kinesis) across multiple teams
  • Improved batch email processes, reducing recovery time from 42 hours to 6 hours and SE involvement from 4 days per month to ~1 hour
  • Decreased deployment time by 3x via standardized CI/CD pipelines and testing
  • Technologies: C#, Python, Terraform, Golang, AWS

Software Engineer

Mar 2022 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos
  • Modernized automated ATS import system using Kafka, SQS, and C# handling up to 500,000 jobs per day, supporting over 25 different ATSs
  • Improved scalability and reduced total resource use by up to 87% during non-burst times
  • Worked with terraform, designing reusable modules and performing several major version upgrades
  • Improved deployments and maintainability by adding first unit tests and feature flags to key fragile legacy PHP application, reducing number of bug tickets opened by 50%
  • Technologies: C#, PHP, Kafka, SQS, AWS, Terraform

First Trust | Software Engineer

Mar 2019 - Feb 2022 · 3 yrs

Wheaton, IL · Full-time

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Software Engineer

Mar 2019 - Feb 2022 · 3 yrs
  • Supported 3-tier applications dealing with sensitive financial data
  • Automated long running TRACE reporting app to significantly reduce required day to day man hours
  • General design of automated features for 3-tier applications
  • Built reliable automated systems to help the business users enter trades accurately in real time. Reduced number of trades entered manually by ~30%
  • Reduced time spent on mandatory reporting by ~100%, almost entirely removing it from the daily workflow
  • Helped support team and business users in day to day operations
  • Redesigned IVORS process to improve error recovery and reduce overall disk memory by ~50% with 0 errors over a 1 year period
  • Focused on delivering bug free, maintainable, and reliable object oriented software within a team structure
  • Designed reliable ETL system for adding trades from csv/spreadsheets
  • Technologies: C#, .NET, SQL Server

Omron Automotive Electronics | Software Engineer

Sep 2017 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

St. Charles, IL · Full-time

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Software Engineer

Sep 2017 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos
  • Designed, coded and debugged LIN 2.0 and J2602 compliant software in C
  • Communicated with customers about requirements and expectations of products
  • Provided continuous unit, integration, and quality assurance testing
  • Tuned and improved embedded software time and space performance by up to 50%
  • Technologies: C, Embedded Systems

> Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

2017

Northern Illinois University