Hayes Ross

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Director of Engineering at Alder Robotics · distributed systems, PostgreSQL

Alder Robotics
Nashville, TN · CT (UTC-6)
13+ years experience
USC
English
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Overview

Based in Nashville. I lead payments infrastructure at Alder Robotics. Took payment success rates from 93.3% to 98.5%. Before that: Target and Robinhood. Most at home with PCI DSS and Java.

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Skills
distributed systemsJavaPCI DSSPostgreSQLGo
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
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Need a design-minded co-founder: payroll in Southeast Asia

The idea
Payroll in Southeast Asia
Stage
Idea
I bring
8 years in payments infrastructure
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Nashville or remote

I bring 22 years of payments infrastructure (currently Alder Robotics). Ideally you've run operations in India and SEA. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Nashville, TN · remote OKdistributed systemspostgresqljava
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HiringHiring for a role
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Building out payments platform at Alder Robotics: security engineers wanted in Nashville

Role
Security engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$151k-$205k + equity
Team
Payments platform, 11 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with PostgreSQL Production experience with Go Ownership of something end to end
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp $189k-$282k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Nashville, TNgopostgresqldistributed systems
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Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    May 2022 - Present
    Alder Robotics · 4 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Led the migration of 25 services to distributed systems.
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 44% in two quarters.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2019 - May 2022
    Target · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Took payment success rates from 95.1% to 98.3%.
  3. Staff Backend Engineer
    Aug 2018 - Oct 2019
    Robinhood · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2015 - Aug 2018
    Oracle · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 46% in two quarters.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Dec 2013 - Mar 2015
    Bank of America · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Shipped 27 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. USC
    BS, Computer Engineering
    1999 - 2003

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