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Tucker Connelly
Staff Software Engineer
Email:web@tuckerconnelly.com
Portfolio:tuckerconnelly.com

Summary
Vim aficionado, kubernetes spelunker, and product creative. Usually in the depths of a new technology, or working on an elegant architecture for a new product. Endlessly gritty and faithful that we can overcome any challenge. Skilled in many areas from full-stack dev to UI/UX to machine learning, and aims to build software that actually sells and makes an impact. Experienced in leading teams as well as working solo. Looking for a new opportunity to work with good people.
Experience
Solo Founder @ Konos | 2023 – Now
  • Designed & engineered a ChatGPT-like platform, developing scalable document-processing pipelines using Python and Kubernetes, and a real-time update system via websockets.
  • Ran market research and prototyped an expansion into AI agents that overcame many of the limitations of vanilla GPT-4. Also achieved 2-4x industry average in conversion rates through landing page optimizations.
Head of Engineering @ Acelerate (Sequoia) | 2019 – 2022
  • Delivered an analytics dashboard MVP in 8 weeks, overcoming many difficult technical challenges while scaling our scraping pipelines. The resulting MVP contributed to securing enterprise contracts with major restaurant brands and a $14mm funding round with Sequoia.
  • Expanded our analytics dashboard into a cross-platform tablet app for in-restaurant order management. Solved many complex engineering challenges such as using directed cyclic graphs to model menus, creating a custom thermal printer driver, and scaling real-time data-processing queues to fetch orders every 30 seconds. This tablet app broadened our market reach into the small business segment, significantly boosting revenue.
CTO @ Rethink Software | 2018 – 2019
  • Co-created a “Spotify for news” platform, re-architecting our Kubernetes-based web-crawler for simplicity and scalabilty, and piping all that data in customized feeds for users in a Next.js frontend.
  • Pivoted to develop a cloud-based operating system, creating a simple-but-powerful architecture modeling all external entities as file descriptors. This new architecture made integrations extremely quick to build, and facilitated our next phase of revenue growth.
Senior Software Engineer @ Kaleo Software | 2016 – 2018
  • Redesigned the company’s frontend architecture overnight, leading to a React codebase we used for over two years.
  • Transitioned the company to a Kubernetes-based microservices architecture, which enabled our AI pivot and increased our scalability.
  • Created and deployed NLP machine-learning models and human-in-the-loop systems, providing new revenue streams and proving our new AI capabilities to our customers.
Freelancer | 2007 – 2016
  • Delivered diverse projects for clients, including a computer vision system for a popular wine app, a frontend for a data-driven fashion magazine, a backend module for a government agency, and many other projects.
Education
Skidmore College3.8 GPA | No degree
Left after third year and joined a startup.
Core Skills
  • System Architecture
  • Team Leadership
  • UI/UX Design
  • Technical Recruiting
  • Lean Development
  • Distributed Systems
  • AI and Machine Learning
Technologies
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • TensorFlow
  • GPT-4
  • and more