Ruby Lawson
SBackend Engineer at Target · Payments infrastructure
- Target
- Denver, CO · MT (UTC-7)
- 1+ years experience
- Purdue University
- English
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Overview
I work on payments infrastructure at Target in Denver. Designed the reconciliation system that matches 2 million transactions a day. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 3.
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Skills
idempotencyGogRPCPCI DSSPostgreSQLJava
Experience
- Backend EngineerOct 2025 - PresentTarget · 1 yr · Full-time · Denver, CO
- Designed the reconciliation system that matches 1 million transactions a day.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 14 minutes to under 3.
Projects
Payments infrastructure benchmark
2024Reproducible benchmarks comparing Java and gRPC on real workloads.
Open-source PostgreSQL toolkit
2022A small library for payments infrastructure that 410 developers star on GitHub.
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Education
- Purdue UniversityBS, Electrical Engineering2020 - 2024
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