Summary
Bruce Kroeze is a senior technical lead with nearly two decades of full-stack and architecture experience building highly available, low-latency web systems from the ground up. Based in Portland, he has repeatedly scaled services to meet massive growth (including a 100x surge at Nike), designed microservices and encryption-first architectures, and delivered production systems that run with millisecond response times and exceptional uptime. He co-started and led the open-source Satchmo e-commerce framework for a decade, specializing in payment integrations, and has a track record of shipping mission-critical privacy, fairness, and bot-mitigation platforms. A hands-on manager and mentor, Bruce has built and grown cross-functional teams, instituted reporting and cost-tracking for complex problems, and championed test-driven and blue/green deployments. Equally comfortable in legacy C/C++ and modern Python/Java stacks, he blends deep systems knowledge with pragmatic product-focused delivery.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer