Tod Gru
Senior Backend Software Engineer at Welocalize
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolTod Gru is a Senior Backend Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 13 years of experience building API-driven, distributed systems across translation, finance, marketing, and entertainment domains. He has deep hands-on experience in Node.js, Ruby, PHP and asynchronous microservices, and has driven infrastructure work on AWS and Puppet to support scalable, on-demand backends. At Welocalize he focuses on backend engineering for language services, building reliable integrations and APIs that move large volumes of content. His career includes full-stack backend work from Drupal/Salesforce syncs to mobile app backends and early data-import systems, reflecting comfort with legacy formats and modern cloud patterns alike. A former touring musician and bassist with international performance credits, he brings an uncommon blend of creativity, resilience, and operational discipline to engineering teams.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Oregon State UniversityPortland State UniversityThe Basics, The Basics at Lane Community CollegeLinux Administration and Music, Linux Administration and Music at Portland Community College
Stackoverflow
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6kreached
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Github Skills (91)
power-management10
monitoring9
linux9
intrusion-detection9
ids9
anti-bot9
authentication9
security9
ips9
hosts9
daemon9
fail2ban9
solaris9
python8
atom-editor8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
todgru/todgru.com
Apr 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 42 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
todgru/mockery-a-fool-out-of-me
Dec 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
node-jstestingjavascriptmockstrials
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