Brent Scheffler
Head Of Engineering at Alitheon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrent Scheffler is a seasoned back-end engineer and engineering leader with over a decade of experience building service-oriented, event-driven systems and scaling early-stage startups. Currently Head of Engineering in Seattle, he has a track record of architecting migrations from monoliths to microservices and event-driven architectures that dramatically cut processing latency (e.g., 3 hours to 25 seconds). He pairs hands-on coding in Python, Go, and Node/TypeScript with hiring, mentorship, and establishing Dev/InfraOps practices—CI/CD, IaC, monitoring, and security—to make teams reliable and autonomous. Brent has led cross-functional integrations through acquisitions and navigated compliance-heavy domains (PCI/SOX) while still rolling up his sleeves to ship critical features. He’s particularly effective at translating product priorities into pragmatic technical roadmaps and cost-optimized cloud/on-prem hybrids. A practical systems thinker, he often surfaces non-obvious gains by standardizing contracts (schema-first APIs/events) and developer workflows to accelerate delivery.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Information Systems, BS Computer Information Systems at Cal Poly Humboldt
English, German
Stackoverflow
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549reached
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Github Skills (37)
payment-service10
payment-methods10
api10
plaid10
http-response10
factory9
publisher9
php9
endpoint9
router8
http-header8
static-analysis8
middleware8
pubsub7
publish-subscribe7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nimbly/Carton
Sep 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:7 releases, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
nimbly/minion
Oct 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 46 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 5 months
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