Rudolf Newman

Senior Full Stack Developer and Game Engineer. Experienced in back-end APIs, front-end web apps, and full-stack debugging in an agile, async environment. Looking to make interesting and impactful contributions within a cohesive and cooperative team.

Senior Software Engineer at Bitcoin Depot (2023-03 – Present)

• Enhanced and refactored a compliance API for storing sensitive customer data and enforcing spending limits
• Developed a system in Typescript for capturing customer events and raising alerts to support
• Migrated from a deprecated GCP Python 2 integration to AWS and Python 3 with no downtime
• Refined a MongoDB fuzzy search pipeline to reduce sanctions false positives by 50%
• Built and updated unit tests for all new features, ensuring stability of releases
• Repaired production data with scripts when issues arose, allowing transactions to resume within 4 hours
• Debugged issues noted by QA, Compliance, and Operations teams and worked with them to find solutions
• Profiled routes and analyzed usage across services to improve of customer creation performance by >50%
• Designed and developed a rules engine, allowing us to conform to new regional regulation in minutes
• Reviewed and provided feedback on teammate's code changes and architecture designs

Game Engineer at SoWork (2021-09 – 2023-03)

• Developed a mapmaker system using Rust, allowing users to customize hundreds of objects in their spaces
• Developed a React app for artists that allowed visual editing of colliders and shadows for custom objects
• Enhanced an in-house ECS game engine to asynchronously load objects from an API
• Implemented a sprite sorting algorithm that increased accuracy while maintaining efficiency
• Developed an image recoloring tool that provided uniform colors across frontend and backend microservices
• Implemented asset recoloring, reducing the time to create variations by >90%
• Refactored the engine's character interface to reduce the number of unique channels from 9 to 2
• Won a two day company hackathon with a polaroid maker that became a complete feature in the product
• Collaborated with art, design, and product teams to build complex features that solved customer problems
• Peer reviewed code and participated in agile sprints to make stable prod releases on a daily schedule

Software Developer at UST Global (2019-03 – 2021-09)

Client: Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

• Developed a request/response system using Nifi to validate and transfer records between thirty-six businesses
• Designed and developed a flexible SQL generator for reporting customer fees and usage statistics
• Delivered a core ETL application to users in six months, meeting a key business milestone that year
• Developed and maintained flows in Nifi to distribute requests and continuously ingest user input
• Supported business users through answering technical questions, remote debugging, and custom solutions
• Mentored interns by breaking down tasks into smaller deliverables and presenting guiding information

B.S. in Computer Science – Northwestern University, McCormick School of Engineering

Certificate in Segal Design Certificate – Northwestern University

Certification in Full-Stack Development, Three Black Belts – Coding Dojo