Garrett Davis

I am a software engineer. I love to make reliable, maintainable, simple, and enjoyable to use software.

Contact

Email: contact [at]
Location: Hillsboro, Oregon

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

Go
TypeScript
JavaScript
Nix
Rust
HCL
Python
Shell
PHP
Java

Frontend

NextJS
React
Vue
Nuxt
HTML
CSS
TailwindCSS
Bootstrap
MaterialUI
SASS

Libraries

Sqlx
Gin
Go's testing package
Express
NextAuth
TRPC
Axum
Zod
esbuild

Databases

MySQL
DynamoDB
SQLite
PostgreSQL
IndexedDB

CI/CD Tools

Terraform
AWS CodeBuild
AWS CodePipeline
GitHub Actions
NixOS

Personal Skills

Teaching

I seek out new technologies and look for how they might benefit my current work. After I find something useful and applicable, I love to share this with my team - and strive to help my whole group excel. For example while working as a contractor at University of Phoenix, I volunteered and then lead a talk on building AWS Lambda functions using Rust.

Leadership

I managed a team of 3-7 baristas while working at Starbucks. I lead our store to be the top in our district for customer connection by focusing on technical excellence and meaningful conversations with our customers.

Experience

University of Phoenix10/23 - Present

Software Engineer I

I spearheaded the transition from typescript to Go for backend microservices.
I built a custom role based authorization system supporting multiple organizations and scopes.
When requirements changed, I refactored our Go backend from microservices to a monolith architecture to support the new use case.
I built multiple smooth login processes using OAuth2 integrating with AzureAD, AWS Cognito, and Google auth providers.

Cook Systems - University of Phoenix10/22 - 10/23

Contract Software Engineer

Revamped existing authentication flow built with PHP to integrate with NextAuth and custom Django / EdX authentication system.
I built automatically generated sitemap for marketing website.
I built a tool to programatically test lighthouse scores across entire marketing site.
I built a custom replacement for Terraform Cloud using s3 backend and codepipeline, reducing time to create a new project's cicd infrastrucure from roughly 8 hours down to only 15 - 30 minutes.

MSR-FSR10/21 - 02/22

Production Technician

Performed detail oriented work in a cleanroom environment.

Starbucks08/18 - 10/21

Shift Supervisor

Mentored multiple baristas toward promotion to supervisor by encouraging them to coach others.
I created opportunities for training and used commendation to encourage individual growth.
Grew our team by training 18+ new hires while instilling Starbucks quality and customer service values.
I lead coffee tastings focusing on the science and history in each cup.
Managed a team of 3-7 people, promoting communication and teamwork.