Brasten Sager
Senior Software Engineer at Remitly
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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SeniorBrasten Sager is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience building and optimizing backend systems, APIs, and deployment pipelines across startups and large product teams. Currently at Remitly, he previously led architecture and efficiency gains at Tiller Money, where his API and deployment redesigns cut database utilization by ~80% and reduced ops costs by 40%. He’s polyglot and pragmatic — comfortable authoring systems in TypeScript, Ruby, Java, Scala, Go, Elixir, and native mobile languages while leveraging Rails, Play, Cloud Run, AWS/GCP, and CI/CD automation. Brasten has a track record of migrating legacy platforms, designing sharding and orchestration solutions, and shipping customer-facing mobile and web projects at scale. Colocated in Kirkland, WA, he often blends hands-on coding with systems thinking and operations work, preferring dependable, observable systems over clever one-offs. One less obvious strength: he repeatedly focuses on reducing operational complexity and cost, not just feature velocity.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (58)
javascript10
typescript10
esoteric-language8
typechecker8
stack-based8
type-check8
programming-language7
yard7
structured-concurrency7
superset7
compiler6
mongodb6
thread6
transcription6
nodejs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brasten/sequel-rails
May 2010 - Jan 2013
Contributions:26 commits in 2 years 8 months
ruby-on-railsrailssequelruby
brasten/yodlee-unofficial-guide
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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