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Noah Duncan

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Staff Backend Engineer, Electronic Arts - PostgreSQL · rate limiting · Redis

Works at
Electronic Arts
Location
Calgary, AB · MT (UTC-7)
Experience
10+ years experience
Education
Ivey Business School
Languages
English
Advising
Message Connect

Overview

10 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Electronic Arts, where I work on the public API team. Reduced cloud spend on public API by 18% in two quarters. Before that: Ubisoft and Bell Canada.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on API platforms
  • Second opinions on Redis decisions
Please don't message about
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Offshore staffing offers

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
OpenAPIPythonDjangoPostgreSQLrate limitingRedisweb performance
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Open to advising Series A teams on rate limiting

Topics
API platforms, Django, rate limiting
Format
Async reviews
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

10 years of API platforms. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

Calgary, ABrate limitingweb performanceopenapi
Open

Experience

  1. Staff Backend Engineer
    Jun 2022 - Present
    Electronic Arts · 4 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Calgary, AB
    • Shipped 27 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 27 minutes to under 6.
  2. Senior Backend Engineer
    Apr 2019 - Jun 2022
    Ubisoft · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Calgary, AB
    • Moved 68% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2016 - Apr 2019
    Bell Canada · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Calgary, AB
    • Shipped 21 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 368ms to 90ms.

Projects

Write-up: API platforms in practice
2026

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Education

  1. Ivey Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2020 - 2022
  2. University of British Columbia
    BSc, Mathematics
    2012 - 2016

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