Hazel James

Platform Engineer, Rivet Security - Backstage · service mesh · Kubernetes

Rivet Security

San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)

1+ years experience

Carnegie Mellon University

English

Open to work

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Overview

Currently at Rivet Security, where I work on platform engineering. Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.

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Roles in platform engineering
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Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills

CI/CDservice meshGoKubernetesBazelBackstage

Open to workLooking for a role

closes in 3 months

Lead Platform Engineer roles in travel - San Francisco or remote

Target roles: Lead Platform Engineer
Level: Senior
Industries: Logistics, Developer tools
Work mode: Hybrid
Available: 60 days notice
Work authorization: Authorized to work in the CA
What I'm looking for: Early-stage company (Series A) where platform engineering is core to the product.
Not interested in: Contract-only roles

1 years in platform engineering. Strongest at CI/CD and Bazel. Available immediately.

San Francisco, CAci/cdbackstageservice mesh

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Experience

Platform Engineer
Oct 2025 - Present
Rivet Security · 1 yr · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
- Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 412ms to 153ms.
- Wrote the Go service that now handles 77 million requests a day.

Projects

Open-source service mesh toolkit

2025

A small library for platform engineering that 153 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

Carnegie Mellon University
BS, Computer Science
2021 - 2025

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