Emmett Underhill
Software Engineer at Instacart
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEmmett Underhill is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems, currently contributing to Instacart’s Ads Platform. He has deep hands-on experience with Java, Kubernetes, MySQL and GCP, and previously built high-throughput thermostat backends at ecobee that handled millions of concurrent device connections. Emmett routinely deploys multiple services weekly, manages cloud infrastructure with Terraform, and implements observability using Prometheus and Grafana. His background includes performance-focused work at Red Hat—where he dramatically sped up server installation—and research experience automating data analysis with Python and R. Based in Old Toronto, he combines a production-first mindset with a curiosity for new technologies and operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Alberta
English
Github Skills (55)
damerau-levenshtein9
irc-bot9
levenshtein-distance9
irc8
shingles8
levenshtein8
string-matching8
jaro-winkler8
edit-distance7
infrastructure7
string-comparison7
python7
web-development-project7
elisp7
iot6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
emmettu/BearlySocial
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:100 pushes, 10 branches in 1 month
web-developmentweb-development-project
emmettu/Installator
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 214 pushes, 2 branches in 3 days
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