SEEKING WORK<p>Location: Washington DC and remote<p>I&#x27;m a software engineer specializing in designing and building stable, scalable consumer-facing websites and refactoring large codebases. Currently, I&#x27;m helping clients with dev ops problems like setting up web apps to scale for 10x more traffic, or building analytics pipelines with AWS.<p>Before that, I was a principal engineer at Vox Media, and worked on some notable projects:<p>- Simultaneously upgraded their 81k LOC monolith to Ruby 2.1 and Rails 3.2 with no downtime <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;product.voxmedia.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;5&#x2F;29&#x2F;5759244&#x2F;vox-media-ruby-rails-upgrade-chorus" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;product.voxmedia.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;5&#x2F;29&#x2F;5759244&#x2F;vox-media-ruby...</a><p>- Built a live blog for The Verge that handles 1.2 million uniques during iPhone events <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;product.voxmedia.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;6&#x2F;15&#x2F;5426782&#x2F;introducing-syllabus-vox-medias-s3-powered-liveblog-platform" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;product.voxmedia.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;6&#x2F;15&#x2F;5426782&#x2F;introducing-sy...</a><p>- Converted all image processing to Thumbor (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;thumbor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;thumbor</a>), and scaled it to resize 1.3 million images a day<p>Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Golang, Python, AWS, Redis, MySQL&#x2F;PostgreSQL, Chef, StatsD, Varnish, ElasticSearch, WebPageTest<p>Github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;clifff" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;clifff</a><p>LinkedIn: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;clifreeder" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;clifreeder</a><p>Blog: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clifff.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clifff.com</a><p>clifreeder@gmail.com