Gordon Lewis
Full Stack Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area · U.S. Remote
Experience
Full Stack Engineer
- Owned development of large Ruby on Rails applications supporting healthcare SaaS products, handling millions of patient records and hundreds of millions of outbound SMS and email messages.
- Built and maintained HIPAA-compliant SaaS applications enabling patient communication, scheduling, and lead management through user-facing web services in React.
- Designed and integrated RESTful APIs connecting Rails backends and PostgreSQL databases with external systems; served as primary technical contact for integration partners.
- Operated and scaled production infrastructure on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, SES, SNS, CloudWatch, Lambda), ensuring reliability, observability, and compliance.
- Identified deployment bottlenecks and implemented automation that increased development throughput by ~325% while reducing manual errors.
- Independently designed and built a full-stack CRM (Rails + React) for patient and lead management, filling a critical operational gap in the product suite.
Software Engineer — Data & Automation
- Built data ingestion and normalization pipelines for automotive parts and vehicle fitment data from multiple vendors.
- Designed relational schemas to support performant fitment queries across make, model, year, and part combinations.
Software Engineer
- Supported and enhanced 750+ live websites, delivering features, fixes, and content updates under real production constraints.
- Shipped features across multiple frameworks (Vue, PHP, React) while managing AWS infrastructure (S3, CloudFront, Route 53, CodePipeline) for rapid deployment.
Software Engineer
- Designed and developed custom client websites end-to-end; contributed to an internal MERN-stack application, implementing core UI components in React.
Skills
- Backend: Ruby on Rails, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, SQL, REST APIs
- Frontend: React, Next.js, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, Vue.js, Tailwind CSS, HTML, CSS/Sass
- Data: CSV pipelines, scraping, normalization, schema design
- Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, SES, SNS, CloudWatch, Lambda, CloudFront, Route 53, CodePipeline)
- Practices: Large codebases, automation, performance tuning, production debugging
- AI & APIs: OpenAI API, Claude API, LLM integration, workflow automation
Education
B.A. in Practice of Art (Digital Fabrication), University of California, Berkeley.
Certificate in User Experience Design, General Assembly.
