Rudolf Newman

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

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