Tristan Wolfe

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Principal Engineer at Coinbase · OpenAPI, Redis

Coinbase
Seattle, WA · PT (UTC-8)
13+ years experience
Penn State
English
Open to work
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Principal Engineer at Coinbase, focused on API platforms. Shipped 30 launches on the public API team without a rollback. Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion. Most at home with Redis and Go. Trail runner and occasional climber.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in B2B SaaS
  • Second opinions on PostgreSQL decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Decks without a clear ask
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Best reached early in the week

Skills
Gorate limitingPostgreSQLDjangoRedisRESTOpenAPI
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Backend Engineer in travel, Seattle or hybrid

Target roles
Backend Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
Developer tools, Fintech
Work mode
Hybrid
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the WA
What I'm looking for
Scope to lead B2B SaaS work, with a manager who gives direct feedback.
Not interested in
Pure people management

21 years in API platforms. Strongest at Go and OpenAPI. Serving notice now.

Seattle, WAgorestdjango
Open

Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    Mar 2023 - Present
    Coinbase · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Backed 51 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Led or co-led 30 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Nov 2020 - Mar 2023
    Workday · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Built the experimentation framework 26 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  3. Senior Backend Engineer
    Jul 2019 - Nov 2020
    Intel · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 28 a week to 1.
  4. Staff Backend Engineer
    Oct 2015 - Jul 2019
    Apple · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Aug 2013 - Oct 2015
    Kaiser Permanente · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 30 minutes to under 5.

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Education

  1. Penn State
    BS, Computer Engineering
    2001 - 2005

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