Barak Stout
Sr. Director Of R&D at raft
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBarak Stout is a senior R&D leader with eight years of software engineering experience, currently serving as Sr. Director of R&D at Raft after progressing through engineering and lead roles at the company. He specializes in backend services, APIs, AWS, Python, Kubernetes and DevOps pipelines, and excels at turning complex distributed and cloud-native problems into clean, maintainable solutions. Barak blends hands-on system design with product-minded thinking—prioritizing user needs, code quality, and scalable microservices architectures. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a BS from George Mason, and brings an unusual breadth of interests from embedded systems and functional programming to UI/UX and software quality. Known for pragmatic engineering leadership, he pushes teams toward serverless and distributed platforms while keeping delivery and operational simplicity top of mind.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at George Mason University - Volgenau School of EngineeringMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (96)
indices10
backend10
django10
django-project10
elasticsearch-client10
golang9
mattermost9
cli9
risk-assessment9
monorepo9
python9
synthetic9
collaboration9
k8s9
elasticsearch9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
BarakStout/hmda-frontend
Dec 2019 - Sep 2021
Collection of HMDA frontend apps
Contributions:90 pushes, 193 branches in 1 year 9 months
reactfrontend-appsfrontendtypescriptnextjs
BarakStout/hmda-platform
Jun 2019 - Nov 2021
Contributions:8 PRs, 359 pushes, 107 branches in 2 years 5 months
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