Rolf Bates
Senior Software Engineer at Clay
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRolf Bates is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience designing and scaling high-performance distributed systems across finance and observability domains. He has driven data-heavy backend platforms at Datadog and payments infrastructure at Goldman Sachs, and now applies that expertise to building resilient cloud-native services at Clay. Fluent in Python, Go, Java, and JavaScript, he leverages Kubernetes, Terraform, Trino, and Iceberg to optimize data pipelines, storage, and developer productivity across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Rolf pairs hands-on engineering with pragmatic automation and technical leadership, routinely improving system throughput and operational efficiency. Based in New York, he favors solutions that "don't have to be logical, they just have to work for the users," reflecting a pragmatic, user-focused approach to complex system design.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) Computer Science at University of Michigan
English
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Github Skills (21)
hugo10
datadog10
documentation10
openapi8
java-client8
golang7
django-rest-framework7
gis7
django7
html6
parse-platform6
angular6
css6
python6
java5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
seongju/SalesHunt
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 25 pushes, 3 issues in 28 days
umich-software-prototyping-clinic/web-app
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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