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<h1 style="display: inline">Orion Kindel</h1>
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<a href="mailto:orionkindel@gmail.com">
<h5>orionkindel@gmail.com</h5></a
>
<a href="https://git.orionkindel.com">
<h5>git.orionkindel.com</h5></a
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<a href="https://linkedin.com/in/orion-kindel">
<h5>linkedin.com/in/orion-kindel</h5></a
>
<a href="https://instagram.com/orion.kindel">
<p>instagram.com/orion.kindel</p></a
>
<a href="tel:9894430197"> <p>+1 989 443 0197</p></a>
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<h2>Brief</h2>
<h5>
A flexible and experienced tech professional who can reliably leverage his
insights to empower and accelerate teams and organizations.
</h5>
<h5>
Orion is a powerful force multiplier with 7 years’ experience as a
software engineer, leader, systems architect, and product manager.
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<h2>Key Skills</h2>
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<h5>Expert</h5>
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<h5 class="grow-x">Javascript</h5>
<span class="nowrap">8 years</span>
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Designed and implemented full-stack high scale production systems at
every position held.
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Deep understanding of language semantics, exception handling,
runtimes, performance characteristics and tooling.
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Architected & implemented complex production interfaces in React, as
well as angular, vue and svelte. Deep experience using hooks &
functional components to manage state and complexity as the product
scales.
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Guided teams to best practices, building systems with 5-40 active
contributors handling 1MM requests / second with %99.999 uptime
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<h5 class="grow-x">Rust</h5>
<span class="nowrap">6 years</span>
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Active Open Source community member; language contributions and
discussions.
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Deep understanding of language semantics, exception handling,
runtimes, performance characteristics and tooling.
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Owner of the primary implementation of the CoAP networking protocol,
which brings high performance REST semantics to bare metal and
distributed systems.
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Built teams using the language, training teammates reaching productive
and capable in &lt;2mo.
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<h5 class="grow-x">Purescript</h5>
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Active Open Source community member; language contributions,
discussions, discord member.
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<p>Owner of many popular packages and abstractions.</p>
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Deep understanding of language semantics, exception handling,
runtimes, performance characteristics, abstractions and tooling.
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Built teams using the language, training teammates reaching productive
and capable in &lt;2mo.
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<span class="nowrap">7 years</span>
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Manage 100s of open source repositories, highly active open source
member and contributor.
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Managed & built git teams at scale, with some repos having hundreds of
daily contributors.
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Have designed, implemented and modified systems across scales and
stacks.
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Have designed and implemented Distributed (Microservices or Services),
Monolithic, and Event Driven systems - choosing the model based on the
product and organization’s requirements, capacity, and time
constraints.
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<span class="nowrap">6 years</span>
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Use docker in most projects for 4 years for making version management,
reproducible deploy artifacts, pull-based deployment models and
security isolation.
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Have used kubernetes to manage deployments of complex distributed
systems handling millions of requests and $500K MRR with high
reliability.
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<h5 class="grow-x">CICD</h5>
<span class="nowrap">6 years</span>
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Use comprehensive automated testing and CI platforms to automate
quality checks and deployment, significantly accelerating product
development.
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<span class="nowrap">6 years</span>
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Have used linux personally & in production. Choose VMs (EC2) in lieu
of kubernetes or managed environments for almost all production needs
for many reasons.
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Deep understanding of systems semantics, filesystems, security model,
networking, resource management, shells, scripting and tooling.
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Guided teams to best practices, building systems with 5-40 active
contributors handling 1MM requests / second with %99.999 uptime
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<h5 class="grow-x">SQL</h5>
<span class="nowrap">7 years</span>
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Have designed & implemented highly normalized and scalable relational
schemas (both for monolithic and distributed systems)
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Have used read replication, partitioning and indexing to manage pain
points inherent in maintaining a relational database while the product
and organization scale.
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Have used many strategies to integrate relational databases with
dynamic and strongly-typed business logic layers from highly-managed
ORMs (ex. Flask, Entity Framework, PrismaJS) to mini-ORMs.
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<h5 class="grow-x">Player-Coach</h5>
<span class="nowrap">6 years</span>
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Have managed teams of sizes 3-10 as a team lead (player-coach),
accountable for success of individual team members as well as the
team. Able to consistenly make & meet data-driven commitments, develop
and maintain excellent relationships with team members and
stakeholders based on accountability, candor and transparency.
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Use tools like CICD, Scrum, TDD and pair programming to increase team
velocity without applying pressure to individual team members.
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Use frequent touchpoints with team members and a shared understanding
of my expectations and their goals, decomposing them into measurable
actionable steps and holding them accountable.
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<h5 class="grow-x">AWS</h5>
<span class="nowrap">7 years</span>
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Have used AWS to deploy and manage systems at scale, both persistent
and on-demand (serverless) applications.
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Deep understanding of networking model (VPC), database hosting (RDS),
persistent managed or unmanaged servers (EC2), on-demand compute
(Lambda), event-driven architecture (SQS), machine learning
(SageMaker), permissions management (IAM).
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<h5 class="grow-x">Scrum</h5>
<span class="nowrap">7 years</span>
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Have led 5 scrum-informed process transformations to improve team
performance, transparency and clarity.
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Trained and mentored product managers on their role and
responsibilities, solving many sources of friction and conflict on
under-performing teams.
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Have filled roles of scrum master and product owner on several product
teams to much success.
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<h6>REST</h6>
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<h6>HATEOAS</h6>
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<h6>JIRA</h6>
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<h6>Figma</h6>
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<h6>OSS Mgmt</h6>
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<h6>Python</h6>
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<h6>Scala</h6>
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<h2>Experience</h2>
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<h3>thunderstrike.ai</h3>
<h4>Technical Founder & CTO</h4>
<p>2023 - Present</p>
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<li>
Built product MVP in Purescript & Rust in 4mo fully covered by
automated testing, automated deployments, load testing @ 100K messages
/ second yields &lt;100ms latency
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With CEO have signed over $100K in contract value with customers since
foundation in October
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Perform competitor analysis, user interviews, and develop KPIs to
continuously refresh our understanding of the problem we’re solving -
pivoting when necessary.
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Maintain living backlog in JIRA* for transparency and accountability
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Manage 2 junior engineers, placed directly from bootcamp graduation
2mo ago who are now formidable and productive in Rust and Purescript.
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Develop and manage local Chicago tech community presence both for
networking and startup representation.
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<h3>Qwick</h3>
<h4>Senior Software Engineer</h4>
<p>2021 - 2023</p>
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<li>
Overhauled onboarding process, helping accelerate new junior hires
</li>
<li>
Architected invoicing system to handle $500K MRR with near-zero
downtime
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<li>
Oversaw team of 4 junior engineers & 1 senior engineer executing on
invoicing system. Was responsible for individual & team outcomes.
</li>
<li>
Led initiative to decouple and modularize existing monolithic
architecture, transforming into a services model with several
event-driven components, adding independent deployability and
automated testing. This increased developer velocity by 40%,
reliability up from %99.9 to %99.999 in 6mo
</li>
<li>
Led agile & scrum transformation with CTO, contributing to velocity
increase of 40%
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<li>
Led DevSecOps team, adding automated testing, CICD, system
rearchitecture, documentation, DX improvements
</li>
<li>
Mentored product managers helping them relax into a role of vision and
user-advocacy, allowing dev teams to execute on well-structured
problem statements
</li>
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Led Google Design Sprints to quickly define and validate new product
initiatives, introducing data-driven and qualitative user research
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Organized grassroots presentations, helped team members develop and
present their own topics
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<h3>TheoremOne</h3>
<h4>Senior Lead Software Engineer</h4>
<p>2020 - 2021</p>
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<li>
Architected robust systems on AWS in Python, Ruby, React, Typescript
</li>
<li>
Developed excellent relationships with stakeholders, communicating
clear and frequent progress updates via demos, gathering feedback and
requirements
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Managed 2 teams of 5-6, overhauling process increasing velocity by
30-40%.
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<h4>Software Engineering Manager</h4>
<p>2021</p>
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<li>Onboarded new Client Coordinator & Product Manager</li>
<li>
Managed team of 4 full-stack engineers, 1 QA, 1 GIS engineer working
on seed-stage MVP
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<li>Negotiated deadlines and rebuilt damaged trust with client</li>
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<h4>Product Manager</h4>
<p>2021</p>
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Owned living backlog with aggressive culling of speculative epics and
stories so as to reduce noise and keep meaningful
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Communicated frequently with client to continually adjust forecasts,
refine backlog and improve understanding of requirements
</li>
<li>
Held dev team accountable for refining tickets into tasks and having
implementation discussions with 1-2 sprint lead time.
</li>
<li>
Ensured prior to Planning, tickets had accurate estimates, subtasks,
and had been seen and touched by everyone who could execute on it,
making it a 15min ceremony.
</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Strongmind</h3>
<h4>Software Engineer</h4>
<p>2017 - 2020</p>
<ul>
<li>
Architected & executed on robust production systems in .NET, JS, TS,
Python & Rust on AWS & Azure. Several greenfield and legacy projects
incl. complex distributed systems, OLAP data pipeline, data warehouse,
mobile app development and learning management system (Canvas LMS)
integration.
</li>
<li>
Led several team process transformations, using process changes and
product vision improvements to increase team velocity and happiness.
</li>
<li>
Led adoption of new technical practices, improving maintainability and
velcoity. Ex. transitioning from TFVC to git, automating deployment
and UAT, containerizing products, introducing automated testing.
</li>
<li>
Mentored several junior engineers, led 2 teams developing production
systems that are still used with few changes today.
</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Education</h2>
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<h4>Associate’s of Science, Physics</h4>
<p>Scottsdale Community College, 2014 - 2016</p>
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<h4>Certified Scrum Developer</h4>
<p>Scrum Alliance, 2019</p>
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<h4>Certified Scrum Product Owner</h4>
<p>Scrum Alliance, 2020</p>
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