Susan Prestage
Senior Software Engineer (contract Through Apex) - Ruby On Rails at Astound Broadband
Bothell, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSusan Prestage is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience specializing in Ruby on Rails and Unix-based environments, currently contracting at Astound Broadband. She has a track record of modernizing legacy Rails monoliths into API-driven, microservice architectures and rebuilding complex integrations—most notably reconstructing a seven-year-old Mapbox-based geo-mapping pipeline from raw shapefiles. Comfortable deep in the terminal, Susan pairs backend craftsmanship with DevOps skills across AWS, Elasticsearch, SQS/SNS, and CI/CD pipelines. She consistently turns messy, versioned legacy systems into maintainable, documented solutions and mentors junior engineers through those transitions. Based in Bothell, WA, she blends a long history in systems and QA at companies like Expedia, Google, and Microsoft with a sharp intuition for tracing elusive production issues. Her uncommon strength is treating codebases like puzzles—finding the minimal, auditable changes that restore functionality and long-term operability.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
RailsBridgeUniversity of California Santa CruzRuby on Rails, Ruby on Rails at Code Fellows
Github Skills (7)
rails3
ruby-on-rails3
react2
ruby2
javascript2
css2
web-developer1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sprestage/exercism_io_ruby
Aug 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 24 pushes in 2 years 2 months
sprestage/trakehner-db
Aug 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:29 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 10 months
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