OneFourTwentyFour

Hello, Internet!

I'm Chris Wang, your backend team's next best friend. My development style revolves around incremental improvement, continuous deployment, and iterating quickly. Work with me to bring these traits into your future or existing software practices.

I am exceptional at:

• making backend services fast from the API request all the way to the database
• listening, learning, and understanding existing team practices and making useful, incremental improvements that will stick
• finding and fixing gnarly problems at all parts of the stack

Receipts provided

I worked at Truework (from Seed through Series B) and Swiftype (from Series B through acquisition by Elastic). But name-dropping isn't useful without context, so here are some highlights from my software career:

• launched two products with a team of under six engineers: Workplace Search and App Search (from idea to launch in under a month!)
• took an employee verification network from thousands to over a million
• upgraded major versions of PostgreSQL with minimal downtime

When to work with me

People start working with me when production is experiencing issues with performance/stability, right after spikes in traffic, and when they are ready to take their codebase/team size/experience to the next level. Here are some examples of my consulting work:

• led an org's transition from manually deployed AWS services to Infrastructure as code
• upgraded major versions of Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• took a high profile SF Bay area client's Elastic cluster from intermittent yellow/red status to green

Let's chat

You can find me in Miami! I'm happy to meet up for a cortadito, a drink, or a friendly game of 1-4-24!

Email me at hello@onefourtwentyfour.com, I'm friendly.