Kestrel Marlowe
Backend Engineer
Austin, TX kestrel.marlowe@example.com +1 (555) 014-2281 kestrelmarlowe.example
Profile
Backend engineer who designs reliable APIs and data services for high-traffic products. Comfortable owning services from schema design through production support. Comfortable collaborating with stakeholders at Northpeak Systems, turning ambiguous requests into prioritized plans, and using PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Redis, AWS to ship outcomes that managers can measure. Prefers concise writing, honest estimates, and documentation teammates can reuse.
Experience
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%.
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
Westbridge University
Focus on distributed systems
Projects
Open sample dashboard that visualizes failed jobs and retry budgets for Laravel workers.