Tucker Pelletier
Principal Software Engineer at EventPipe
Ashburnham, Massachusetts, United States Other
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Top SchoolTucker Pelletier is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing backend systems, primarily using Groovy/Grails and cloud platforms like Google Cloud and Azure. He specializes in migrating legacy apps to modern stacks, designing integration patterns (pub/sub, webhooks, API gateways), and improving operational workflows for background jobs and CI/CD. Tucker has a strong track record of pragmatic platform work—moving apps to containers, introducing Spring Rest Docs, and creating reusable libraries for configuration and cloud service integration. He routinely leads upgrades, refactors, and security hardening (e.g., preventing SQL injection, CSRF) while mentoring teams and producing training materials. An active Groovy enthusiast, his GitHub highlights include micro-grails, AST metaprogramming experiments, and tooling that reveal deep language-level expertise not obvious from job titles alone. Based in Massachusetts, he combines hands-on implementation with architectural judgment to turn messy legacy systems into reliable, cloud-native services.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Github Skills (112)
web-application10
grails10
grails-plugin10
groovy10
kotlin10
acl9
spring-rest9
serverless9
plugin9
spring-session9
application-framework9
java9
database-migration8
podman8
micronaut8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
virtualdogbert/testEnforcer33
Jun 2018 - Jun 2021
An upgraded Test App for Enforcer, for Grails 3.3.x
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
testingenforcertest-appgrails
virtualdogbert/micro-grails
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
A Library for adding Grails like conventions to Micronaut projects.
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 months
conventionsmicronautgrails
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