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James Carter
Senior Software Engineer
Summary

Backend engineer, 8 years scaling payment systems to 8,000 requests a second.

Experience
Senior Software Engineer · Stripe
2022 - Present
•Rebuilt payments authorisation: 8,000 req/sec at 99.99% uptime.
•Cut API p95 latency 42% with a regional cache layer, written in Go.
•Reduced cloud spend 31%, saving $1.4M a year.
Software Engineer · Stripe
2019 - 2022
•Moved 40 services from REST to gRPC, latency down 28%.
Software Developer · Dell Technologies
2016 - 2019
•Cut CI build times 60% with an incremental pipeline.
Education
MS, Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology2020 - 2022
BS, Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin2012 - 2016
Key Achievements
•Scaled a payments service to 8k req/sec at 99.99% uptime.
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Skills
Languages: Go, Python, TypeScript, SQL
Systems: Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, Postgres
Certifications
•AWS Solutions Architect – Professional
Languages
English - NativeSpanish - Conversational