Geoff Catlin
Staff Software Engineer at Lark Health
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolGeoff Catlin is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable, high-performance SaaS and live-service backends from first principles. He combines hands-on architecture and implementation skills across Go, Ruby, Erlang/Elixir, PostgreSQL and cloud-native tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS) to deliver resilient systems and smooth developer workflows. Geoff excels at pragmatic simplicity—focusing on clean interfaces, orthogonal components, and iterative delivery—and has repeatedly led migrations and performance rewrites (Riak→CockroachDB strategy, high-throughput email sending) that yielded measurable improvements. He’s comfortable both as an individual contributor and as an early engineering hire setting hiring, process and deployment standards, and he pairs technical design with strong incident and observability practices. Based in Cary, NC, he brings a Unix-philosophy mindset and a knack for tooling (e.g., backend-in-a-box, schema-driven code generation) that helps product teams move faster.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Damascus High SchoolThe RyleysBS Management Information Systems, BS Management Information Systems at Clarkson University
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Github Skills (82)
payment-gateway10
abstraction10
file-format10
go-client10
payment-integration10
single-file10
alpaca10
payment10
rust10
binding10
adyen10
square10
bitmap10
payment-processing10
golang9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
spreedly/riak-postcommit-hook
May 2019 - Sep 2019
A postcommit hook for Riak that forwards Riak objects to an OTP application for handling.
Contributions:6 commits, 19 PRs, 61 pushes in 3 months
hookhandlingotpriakerlang
gcatlin/xol
Feb 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:44 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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