Isaac Brewer

Overview

23 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Compass Learning, where I lead the payments platform team. Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 29 a week to 4. Before that: Robinhood and EY. Most at home with Go and idempotency. I teach a weekend class on Java.

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Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Apr 2024 - Present
   Compass Learning · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
   • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 14 a week to 1.
   • Shipped 19 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
2. Backend Engineer

   Mar 2021 - Apr 2024
   Robinhood · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
   • Moved 68% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Staff Backend Engineer

   Oct 2017 - Mar 2021
   EY · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
   • Shipped 25 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
4. Engineering Manager

   Oct 2014 - Oct 2017
   Booking Holdings · 3 yr · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
   • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.
5. Senior Engineering Manager

   Nov 2011 - Jul 2014
   McKinsey & Company · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
   • Led the migration of 41 services to idempotency.

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Education

1. University of Pennsylvania

   BS, Computer Science
   1999 - 2003