Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarKurtis Rainbolt-greene is a seasoned full-stack engineer and technology leader in Los Angeles, currently CTO at Edge and principal owner of Difference Engineers. With 10+ years of hands-on experience across Ruby/Rails, JavaScript (React/Redux), Elixir, and PostgreSQL, he spans frontend features, backend systems, data processing and devops. He’s contributed backend refactors and i18n work to the widely used Mastodon project and has practical expertise implementing JSON:API tooling and multiple GraphQL approaches (Falcor, Relay, Apollo and his own). Kurtis has driven measurable performance and cost improvements at scale—refactoring GOAT’s shipping logic and optimizing high-traffic services—and is known for mentoring teams and improving developer onboarding. Equally comfortable shipping Elixir services or Rails migrations, he blends individual contributor craft with strategic engineering leadership.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (24)
ruby-rails10
rails10
sidekiq10
ruby10
rails510
postgresql9
redis9
activitypub8
actioncable8
rails-i18n7
dockerce7
dockers7
ember-i18n7
i18n-js7
docker7
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
mastodon/mastodon
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 13 commits, 12 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Kurtis primarily focused on refactoring and optimizing the back-end code of the Mastodon microblogging platform. They migrated functionalities into background workers to improve performance, specifically for feed management and message broadcasting. The user also refactored code related to database interactions and application components, enhancing the overall efficiency and maintainability of the system. They also worked on incorporating internationalization support for the platform.
social-networkwebfingerpixelfedhosteddocker
lacqueristas/api
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:67 PRs, 122 pushes, 427 branches in 7 months
apiphpcore-api
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