Summary
Arjun Downs is a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of professional experience delivering end-to-end web and cloud solutions. He has progressed from junior Rails developer to senior roles at Stride Consulting, bringing deep hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, modern front-end frameworks, and multi-cloud integrations. At Datapipe he led an Alibaba Cloud integration team, interfacing with AWS, Azure, and GCP APIs and driving migrations of large legacy Rails codebases while advocating for testing and consistent style. Comfortable owning the full agile release process, he combines technical leadership with pragmatic project coordination, from scoping and sprint planning to deployments and triage. Educated in Psychology and Philosophy at Amherst College and trained at Metis, he brings uncommon product empathy and an analytical mindset to feature design and team collaboration. Colleagues rely on him for steady delivery on complex cloud-facing applications and for translating operational constraints into maintainable code.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Psychology and Philosophy, Bachelor's Degree, Psychology and Philosophy at Amherst College
Metis
French, Japanese