Todd West
Software Engineer at Netflix
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd West is a seasoned software engineer with 13+ years building high-throughput, cloud-native distributed systems and a track record of leading teams from design to production. Based in the Portland metro area, he progressed from senior engineering roles at Jive and RipFog to senior and lead positions at New Relic before joining Netflix, demonstrating consistent growth in scale and responsibility. He specializes in Java-based architectures, microservices, fault-tolerant systems, and performance-driven data pipelines, frequently balancing reliability with maintainability. Todd is known for mentoring early-career engineers and fostering cross-functional collaboration to deliver large-scale projects on time. Beyond hands-on coding and architecture, he brings an engineer’s curiosity—preferring pragmatic, rapidly delivered solutions that still meet rigorous production requirements.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Oregon State University
Github Skills (68)
relic10
asciidoc10
newrelic10
redux9
backlog9
medium9
django8
api8
cross-browser8
documentation8
spring-boot8
django-rest-framework8
java8
nodejs8
proxy7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
toddwest/docs-website
Sep 2021 - Jun 2023
Source code and public issue backlog for @newrelic docs.
Contributions:8 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
newrelicbacklog
toddwest/sticky-headers-recyclerview
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 4 pushes, 2 tags in 6 months
recyclerviewandroid-libraryandroidsticky-headerskotlin
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