Summary
Dennis Gooden is a staff software development engineer with 13 years of professional experience building server-side systems, APIs, and billing platforms. He brings deep, multi-language expertise across JavaScript, C/C++, Python, Perl, PHP, Java and Objective-C, and is hands-on with Node.js, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes and Docker. At Recharge and previously as a principal developer at Star2Star, he has led architecture and implementation of scalable microservices and web applications that power revenue-critical systems. He excels at translating complex business requirements into reliable, auditable server-side solutions and operationalizing them in containerized environments. Based in Gardiner, Maine, Dennis combines pragmatic engineering with a long tail of legacy and modern systems experience, making him adept at both greenfield services and maintaining mission-critical codebases. He often leverages JSONata for data transformation, reflecting a knack for practical, data-centric tooling choices.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer