Lew Gordon
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Amplitude
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolLew Gordon is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable backend and data-driven systems across cloud and big-data stacks. He has deep Java and Python expertise, practical Go skills, and a track record applying Spring, Kafka/Storm/Spark, Hadoop, and AWS to analytics and ingestion pipelines. Lew has progressed from hands-on engineering and test automation to technical leadership roles at Twilio, Genesys, and now Amplitude, often bridging QA, backend services, and operational tooling. Comfortable in Linux and macOS environments and familiar with Docker, Ansible, and Puppet, he brings both feature delivery and infrastructure sensibility to teams. Outside core development he’s implemented tooling and automation (including Python and Ruby frameworks) that accelerated testing and data workflows—an indicator of his focus on developer productivity as well as system reliability.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Lakeland High SchoolBS Computer and Systems Engineering/Computer Science, BS Computer and Systems Engineering/Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English, Italian
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Github Skills (34)
java9
kotlin8
druid8
database8
high-performance8
android8
jvm7
spark7
cucumber7
kafka7
sql7
apache7
http-client7
message-broker6
qpid6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LGordon2/personal-website
Apr 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:10 PRs, 25 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 7 months
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