Mitchell Rust
Senior Software Engineer at Axle Health
EXPERIENCE
Senior Software Engineer
Axle Health
- Santa Monica, CA
- Building the future of home healthcare technology, focused on logistics and scheduling software solutions.
Platform Architect
Simplot Company
- Boise, ID
- Establishing enterprise-level architecture and system design for data integration, modeling, and data pipeline tools, integrating with Azure Databricks Lakehouse for AI and machine learning workloads, supplying enterprise analytics that impact the bottom line.
Software Engineering Technical Manager
Simplot Company
- Boise, ID
- Led a team of 8 engineers through the successful delivery of key business projects for internal and customer-facing applications, supporting finance, HR, and ERP implementations globally.
- Operated as a lead developer to assist engineering in high visibility deliverables, ensuring timely execution and emphasizing quality of output.
- Continued to provide technical leadership on architecture and design solutions through regular feedback cycles, asynchronous communication channels, and peer code reviews, providing space for engineers to explore while minimizing one-off solutions.
- Partnered with customers to understand their needs and priorities, paying close attention to balancing speed of delivery with quality and supportable long-term solutions, refining a "product sense" for designs.
Senior Software Engineer
Simplot Company
- Boise, ID
- Owned end-to-end delivery and support of over 20 microservice applications implementing RESTful HTTP and event-driven capabilities, heavily leveraging serverless functions and relational databases for scalability and performance among distributed systems.
- Led the design and delivery of multiple enterprise-scale integration projects, including a successful Central Finance implementation handling millions of transactions daily across 9 different financial systems, to consolidate financial reporting and analytics.
- Led data modeling and RESTful resource design to decouple applications and ensure consistent presentation of data.
- Performed analysis of application metrics to identify performance bottlenecks and find measurable cost savings of $1,000's per month.
- Contributed to debtless Everything-As-Code for Microsoft Azure and OpenShift platforms, leveraging Terraform for IAC.
- Served as a technical consultant across the greater IT org, guiding best practices around cloud architecture, scalable design standards, actionable monitoring and alerting, and durable processing of high value data.
- Participated in on-call support, rapidly ramping up on unfamiliar systems to diagnose and resolve production issues quickly. Facilitated blameless post-mortems to establish remediation paths and alleviate future issues, all while mentoring peer engineers.
Software Engineer II
Simplot Company
- Boise, ID
- Developed a centralized integration service to streamline access to normalized ERP data for key business objects such as customers, invoices, and other master and transactional data.
- Built HTTP service APIs and leveraged Azure Event Hub and Service Bus queues to integrate data across systems in a variety of ways.
- Integrated serverless functions with on-premise databases to automate workflows that made new data available in realtime as it was changing.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance data accessibility and improve operational efficiency, understanding key pain points of legacy flat-file drops and what functionality our customers wanted to see.
SUMMARY
Senior software engineer with 5 years experience building cloud-native, event-driven distributed systems on the Azure platform. Strong background in enterprise integrations, system design, and ownership of work end-to-end. Experienced technical leader with a passion for resilient backend systems and inspiring frontend design.
SKILLS
TypeScript
Node.js
React
Next.js
Docker
Python
PostgreSQL
Terraform IAC
CI/CD
Azure / Cloud-Native
Git
RESTful Design
Event-Driven Systems
C# .NET
Agile
Recent GitHub Projects
- Multi-Tenant Club Management Platform
- RAG-Based NCAA Transfers Search Engine
- Booking Website for Group and Private Lessons
- SPA Fitness Tracking App with Customizable Workouts
EDUCATION