Ethan Garofolo
Principal Engineer at O.C. Tanner
Provo, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Garofolo is a Principal Engineer with 13+ years of experience helping organizations create predictable delivery Flow by aligning process, team communication, architecture, and technical practices. He combines hands-on systems architecture and full-stack implementation—spanning Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Clojure, React, and AWS—with coaching and transformation work that turns monoliths into autonomous microservices. As founder of Such Software and earlier Big-Oh Studios, he blends entrepreneurial pragmatism with enterprise delivery, and has led data and platform architecture roles at companies like Berkadia and Aumni. Ethan publishes Practical Microservices Daily and authored Practical Microservices, reflecting a rare focus on bite-sized, actionable guidance for busy engineering leaders. Based in Provo, Utah, he’s known for a holistic approach that treats process, people, and code as a single system rather than isolated concerns.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Winona State UniversityBachelor of Science Computer Science French, Bachelor of Science Computer Science French at Brigham Young University
English, French
Github Skills (189)
env10
web-application10
apollo-client10
javascript10
dotenv10
apollographql10
environment-variables10
ghost10
nodejs10
caching10
typeahead10
configuration-file10
graphql-client10
react10
secrets9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
LearnAllTheNodes/nodeslash
Sep 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 3 months
nodejsnodes
SuchSoftware/practical-microservices
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Starting point for the practical-microservices workshop
Contributions:51 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 days
starting-pointworkshopdockerpracticalpoint
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