Maya Ellison
Backend Engineer
Austin, TX maya.ellison@example.com +1 (555) 014-2281 mayaellison.example
Profile
Backend engineer who designs reliable APIs and data services for high-traffic products. Comfortable owning services from schema design through production support.
Experience
Backend Engineer
2021 – Present
Northpeak Systems · Austin, TX
- Built a billing events service that processes 2.4M daily messages with 99.98% success.
- Cut average API latency from 420ms to 180ms by introducing query caching and read replicas.
- Led on-call rotations and wrote runbooks that reduced incident time-to-recover by 35%.
Software Engineer
2018 – 2021
Cedarline Labs · Austin, TX
- Delivered REST services for a research portal used by 12 internal product teams.
- Introduced automated contract tests that caught breaking changes before release.
Skills
PHP · Laravel · MySQL · Redis · AWS · REST APIs · PHPUnit
Education
B.S. Computer Science
2018
Westbridge University
Focus on distributed systems
Projects
Queue Pulse
Open sample dashboard that visualizes failed jobs and retry budgets for Laravel workers.