Avery Robinson

Experienced software engineer based in Indiana, USA.

Work Experience

• Remote, Software Engineer
  • January 2024-present
  • Global Payroll. Integrate Remote's system with banking partners to enable automated payouts to thousands of additional employees.
  • Product Quality. Build internal tooling to improve Ops Team's confidence that salary payments are correct.
  • Elixir with Phoenix and Ecto, JavaScript with React
• Stripe, Software Engineer
  • January 2020-November 2022
  • Connect Onboarding. Worked in the Connect organization, with a focus on Connect Onboarding.
  • Ops/Reliability Team DRI. Pioneered a monitoring system for HTTP 400 errors, facilitating auto-alerts for new categories of user-facing incidents. After presenting this system's success in a tech talk, it was implemented across all of Stripe.
  • Cross-Border Payout Expansion. Led cross-functional team, increasing the number of available payout countries from 53 to 95.
  • TypeScript/JavaScript with React, Ruby, MongoDB, SQL, Sorbet, SignalFX, Splunk, Sentry, Jest, Selenium, AWS CloudWatch Synthetics, git
• Avatria, Software Engineer
  • June 2018-November 2019
  • Conversion Optimization. Contributed to machine learning-based conversion rate optimization SaaS product.
  • Statistical Analysis. Applied statistical analysis to determine confidence in model effectiveness, providing rigorous support for ROI numbers.
  • Python, Java, MySQL, AWS, git, Spring Framework, Hibernate
• Northwestern University, McNally Lab, Developer
  • June 2016-May 2018
  • Data Analysis. Developed solutions for research into genetic heart diseases.
  • Publications. Co-authored two papers:
    • "Genomic Context Differs Between Human Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy" PMID: 33764162
    • "Pathogenic and Uncertain Genetic Variants Have Clinical Cardiac Correlates in Diverse Biobank Participants" PMID: 32009526
  • Perl, bash, git

Education

• University of Chicago
  • Class of 2017
  • Bachelor of Science, double major in Computer Science and Mathematics.
  • Computer Science coursework in C, Haskell, Standard ML, and Python.
  • Wrote expository paper on the Banach-Tarski Paradox, copy available at https://www.averyrobinson.com/BanachTarski.pdf

Contact

You can email me at "avery" at this domain, or connect with me on LinkedIn.