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Drew Short

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Minneapolis MN — H (651)-285-4565 — B drew@sothr.com — m https://www.sothr.com

SOFTWARE

ENGINEER

Full-Stack Development — Platform Engineering — Distributed Systems

• Full-stack software engineer - 14+ years of experience with the entire software

development lifecycle. Dedicated to the delivery of innovative solutions for to-

day’s problems, using tomorrow’s tools.

• Infrastructure and platform engineering expertise - 6+ years years architect-

ing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure using infrastructure

as code, with deep experience in deployment automation, observability, and pro-

duction system operations.

• Strong troubleshooting and analysis skills - Quick to analyze the root cause of

issues and work towards both immediate and long term solutions.

• Specialized in middle and backend system design - Years of experience in vali-

dating, processing, and marshalling data across varied systems.

COMPUTER

SKILLS

Languages: Go, Python, HCL, Java, Kotlin, Groovy, SQL, YAML

Infrastructure & Platform: Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, Docker,

Podman, Nginx, HAProxy

Observability & Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, OpenTeleme-

try, Sentry

Cloud Providers: GCP, AWS, Azure

CI/CD & Build Tools: GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Concourse, Poetry, Maven, Gradle

Frameworks & Libraries: FastAPI, LangGraph, Spring Framework, Spring Boot,

Spring Cloud Stream, Hibernate

Testing: pytest, Cucumber, JUnit, Spock

Databases: PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, SQLite

Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, RHEL, Alpine), MacOS, Win-

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EXPERIENCE Platform Architecture

Platform Engineering Team Lead

Senior Platform Engineer Flywheel Exchange, LLC

Minneapolis, MN 2020 - 2025 (5 years, 9 months)

• Facilitated team operations including planning, retrospectives, postmortems, game-

days, and knowledge-sharing sessions.

• Developed automated deployment system using GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Helm,

and Kubernetes to replace manual Bash + Docker Compose processes.

• Led development to centralize customer deployment log collection using GCP

Stackdriver, AWS Cloudwatch, or customer-supplied infrastructure.

• Architected and led development of automated deployment upgrade tooling to

manage 120+ customer deployments, reducing average upgrade time from 2

months to under 1 week.

• Designed and implemented infrastructure for an internal AI Agent ReAct stack

integrating AWS Bedrock with a LangGraph-based service on AWS ECS.

• Mentored platform engineers, software engineers, and interns on Terraform,

Helm, Kubernetes, Python, Golang, scalable code patterns, and observability

tooling.

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Senior Software Engineer Optum

Eden Prairie, MN 2017 - 2020 (2 years, 6 months)

(Contracted) 2016 - 2017 (7 months)

• Replaced slow legacy REST API services with horizontally scaling architecture

and guided teams through the migration process.

• Led efforts to triage critical security issues in production Spring services, taking

accountability for identiﬁed issues and assigning security work to engineers.

• Developed automated tooling to route security issues to domain teams, reducing

response time and missed assignments.

• Led conversion from legacy in-line JSON deserialization to Jackson-based DTOs

for API and message queue communication across team services.

• Improved code generation for an internal Spring framework, signiﬁcantly reduc-

ing conﬁguration overhead for message-based workﬂows.

Software Engineer Cargill Incorporated, Risk Management

Hopkins, MN 2013 - 2016 (3 years, 6 months)

• Led a small (3-5 person) team to retool and support a migration system in prepa-

ration of an extended cut-over testing period.

• Architected a Python REST API to integrate an Oracle data source with a third-

party suite of back, middle and front ofﬁce tools.

• Redesigned management system for ’Risk Products’, delivering improved control

over the individual components.

• Maintained and upgraded a 10+ year Spring web application, modernizing the

interface, improving the backend, and migrating to modern build tools.

Software Engineer Intern (Under Contract To) FPX LLC

Mankato, MN 2011 - 2013 (2 years, 1 month)

• Expanded a REST API and implemented continuous integration testing.

• Developed a DSL and tooling for internal auditing, testing, and reporting.

• Developed a ’playback’ system that facilitated debugging of client systems.

EDUCATION Bachelor of Science, IT (May 2013) Minnesota State University

Software Engineering & Ethics Mankato, MN

NOTABLE

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Eagle Scout 2007

• BSA Leadership Instructor Summers 2004-2007

REFERENCES Available Upon Request

Last Updated: December 3, 2025