Marcus Johnson

San Francisco, CA · (415) 555-0188 · [email protected] · github.com/marcusj · marcusj.dev

Summary

Backend engineer with 6 years building distributed systems at scale. Focused on payment infrastructure and event-driven architectures. Comfortable owning services end-to-end.

Technical Skills

Languages: Go, Python, TypeScript, Rust

Systems: Kafka, Postgres, gRPC, Kubernetes

Cloud: AWS (ECS, S3, RDS), Terraform

Experience

Senior Software Engineer2022-04 – Present

Stripe

South San Francisco, CA · Go, Kafka, Postgres, AWS

Lead engineer on the disputes service handling 40M+ events/day across 6 regions.
Migrated dispute evidence pipeline from cron-batch to event-driven (Kafka), reducing p99 latency from 14 min to 38 sec.
Mentor 2 junior engineers; own code review standards for the team's 8-person org.

Software Engineer2019-07 – 2022-03

Lyft

San Francisco, CA · Python, gRPC, Kubernetes

Built the dispatch pricing fairness service: 99.95% SLO, 12 services migrated off a legacy monolith.
Shipped the ride-eta A/B experiment framework used by 30+ teams.

Education

M.S. Computer Science2019

Carnegie Mellon University

B.S. Computer Science2017

UC Berkeley

Honors