Logan Watts

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Staff Software Engineer at Greystone Technologies · Developer tools · LSP, VS Code extensions

Greystone Technologies
Salt Lake City, UT · MT (UTC-7)
14+ years experience
Harvard Business School
English, Hindi
Open to work
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Overview

14 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Greystone Technologies, where I work on the developer experience team. Built the experimentation framework 14 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: PayPal and KPMG. Most at home with LSP and CLI design. Learning to sail.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in developer tools
  • Working sessions on TypeScript
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Skills
TypeScriptcompilersLSPXCTestVS Code extensionsCLI design
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Software Engineer roles in gaming - Salt Lake City or remote

Target roles
Software Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
E-commerce, B2B SaaS
Work mode
Remote
Available
Immediately
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the UT
What I'm looking for
Hands-on work on VS Code extensions with room to mentor.
Not interested in
Night shifts

14 years in developer tools. Strongest at LSP and compilers. Can start in about six weeks.

Salt Lake City, UTlspcompilersxctest
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Experience

  1. Staff Software Engineer
    Aug 2022 - Present
    Greystone Technologies · 4 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
    • Shipped 22 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
    • Wrote the VS Code extensions service that now handles 87 million requests a day.
    • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.
  2. Software Engineer
    Nov 2019 - Aug 2022
    PayPal · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
    • Wrote the VS Code extensions service that now handles 18 million requests a day.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Dec 2017 - Nov 2019
    KPMG · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
    • Shipped 24 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
    • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 12 a week to 2.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    Jun 2015 - Dec 2017
    Target · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
    • Led the migration of 57 services to TypeScript.
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 860ms to 97ms.
  5. Software Engineer
    Jul 2012 - Mar 2015
    Wells Fargo · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 471ms to 139ms.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 5.

Projects

Side project: a commute planner
2023

Built with CLI design and VS Code extensions. 1947 people used it last year.

Conference talk: lessons from developer experience
2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling developer tools.

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Education

  1. Harvard Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2012 - 2014
  2. NYU
    BA, Electrical Engineering
    2007 - 2011

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