Seattle, WA
Avery Quinn is a backend and platform engineer with 7 years of experience building payment and data infrastructure. They specialize in reliable, high-performance systems that are easy to operate.
Jan 2022 to Present, Seattle, WA
• Led the migration of the settlement pipeline from cron jobs to Kafka streams, cutting end-of-day close from 4 hours to 35 minutes. • Designed an idempotent payouts API in Go serving 1.2M requests per day at 99.98% availability. • Mentored 4 engineers and ran the on-call rotation for the payments platform team.
Jan 2019 to Jan 2022, Remote
• Built a Postgres-to-BigQuery change data capture service in Python that replaced nightly batch exports. • Reduced p95 dashboard query latency by 62% by adding materialized rollups and a Redis cache.
Jan 2018 to Jan 2018
• Wrote telemetry ingestion for a warehouse robot fleet in Rust.
B.S. Computer Science
Jan 2019
open-source Kafka consumer lag visualizer, 1.1k GitHub stars.
double-entry accounting library in Go used in 3 hobby fintech apps.
