Francis Bull - Software Engineer

I have years of experience building and maintaining high-performance, delightful software. I value collaboration and getting things done.

Employment

Member of Technical Staff

Tailscale Inc, Remote

August 2022 - Present

→ Go

Drive and ship projects in the product, both in the client and control server software, and in the billing software and tools that support support.

Design, build, and ship new software features (e.g. user limits)

Enhance and fix existing features (e.g. app connectors)

Add credit based billing

Pipe customer info into customer support portals

Senior Software Engineer

Atlassian, Remote

March 2017 - August 2022

→ Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, AWS SQS

I worked on the Trello API server software, which handled tens of thousands of requests per second for millions of concurrent users.

Restructure the way permissions work in the code base so that we can ultimately move them on to the Atlassian Permissions service

Write documentation to share best practices (e.g. routing, status codes).

Mentor, guide, and collaborate with team members (e.g. junior dev program).

(As part of a team) Move millions of user accounts on to the Atlassian Identity service.

Member of Technical Staff

Trello, Remote

October 2014 - March 2017

→ Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, CoffeeScript, RabbitMQ

Similar to my work on Trello at Atlassian, but everything was smaller. I am a proud bearer of a rarely awarded Certificate of Support Friendship from this time.

Senior Software Engineer

Art & Logic, Remote

June 2012 - October 2014

→ Python, Javascript, HTML, CSS, SQLAlchemy, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Art & Logic is a custom software development company. I worked on five projects while, there three of which were brand new software, 2 of which were maintenance. I got good experience talking to customers, finding the best most, cost effective way to meet their needs, and translating requirements into tasks into estimates into code. I was about to lead my first project for them when I got my dream job at Trello.

Programmer / Build and Release Engineer

Steep Rock, Remote

March 2011 - June 2012

→ Python, Linux, Linux shell scripts

Software Engineer

Pharmacy Computer Services, Grant Pass, OR

March 2010 - March 2011

→ Java, Linux

Software Engineer, Flowjo

Treestar, Ashland, OR

February 2007 - March 2010

→ Java

Education

BSc Physics 2:1

University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

1997 - 2002

Other Information

I am a United States citizen

I am only interested in remote work