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Kevin W. Sutherland

Cloud & Backend Software Engineer

St. Petersburg, FL

Go
Microservices
20K+
Peak Requests/sec
GCP
Cloud-Native
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About

Fullstack Software Engineer with nearly 10 years of professional development experience, including 4+ years of experience specializing in large-scale, high-performance web services serving millions of users. Deep expertise in Golang and cloud-native architectures on GCP, with a strong foundation in full-stack development across PHP, TypeScript, and Vue.js.

Experience

Software Engineer II

Rebuy EngineRemoteMay 2022 — Present
  • Designed, deployed, and maintained production-grade Go microservices in GCP Kubernetes clusters — including migrating data flows out of a legacy monolith and owning the core product data microservice processing 5,000+ req/s with spikes to 20,000+ during peak events
  • Built and maintained high-throughput Go services; applied concurrency primitives (goroutines, channels) to achieve throughput gains in real-time data pipelines
  • Engineered real-time ingestion and synchronization pipelines using GCP Pub/Sub and custom Go orchestration logic, handling millions of messages daily with strong observability (metrics, logs, traces)
  • Implemented Grafana k6 load-testing framework into staging CI/CD pipelines, automating performance and scalability validation for high-throughput Go microservices and real-time Pub/Sub ingestion pipelines
  • Designed and optimized PostgreSQL schemas, queries, and caching layers (Redis, BigTable) for multi-terabyte datasets in a distributed environment
  • Built secure authentication flows (JWT + Google OAuth) and robust API integrations, ensuring reliable, auditable data exchange under strict security and compliance requirements
  • Developed and maintained robust third-party API integrations with Shopify (REST and GraphQL), navigating inconsistent documentation and edge cases independently
  • Bridged frontend and backend teams, translating product requirements into maintainable technical specifications

Engineer

Addis EnterprisesRemoteMarch 2019 — May 2022
  • Fullstack development in a local Docker environment, building custom websites and client-facing web applications end-to-end
  • Built and maintained CRUD REST APIs; developed Vue.js frontends to consume them for seamless UX/UI experiences
  • Ensured all client sites met WCAG 2.0 accessibility compliance
  • Ensured WCAG 2.0 accessibility compliance across all deliverables

Skills

Go
language
GCP
cloud
Kubernetes
devops
Docker
devops
PostgreSQL
database
Redis
database
TypeScriptPHPJavaScriptVue.jsAngularMySQLBigTablePub/SubCloud SQLGraphQLREST APIsGit

Education

Bachelor of Arts

Media & Information

Michigan State University•East Lansing, MI•May 2018

Contact

Interested in working together? Send me a message.

kevin.sutherl@gmail.com