Brighten Tompkins

Experience

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  Parsec Education

  September, 2023 - May, 2026

  Software Engineer III

  📊 Education analytics and data products for schools and districts (Fresno, CA). • Built a Kubernetes gRPC microservice ETL pipeline with idempotent state so 10+ independent pods could be discovered through a REST API gateway for internal ops, including error reporting to Google Cloud Platform. • Advocated for Golang on on-demand compute (e.g. Google Cloud Run) for faster cold starts; native concurrency materially improved throughput for roughly fifteen internal automations. • Led GitLab CI/CD work—deploy, lint, test automation plus webhooks—cutting weekly compute usage from about 1000 minutes to about 20 (roughly a 50x reduction).
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  Dokkimi

  May, 2023 - September, 2023

  Senior Software Engineer

  🔧 Backend testing platform for integration, end-to-end, and visual regression (Boston, MA). • Facilitated 12+ continuous integration and deployment steps—formatting, linting, and checks on every GitHub pull request—for steadier reviews. • Monitored clusters of roughly 20+ virtual pods per cluster using NestJS scheduled tasks alongside the Kubernetes metrics stack and Node clients for reliability. • Guided cloud sizing (DigitalOcean) from usage trends and product fit—for example clusters at 4GB RAM and three vCPU or larger. • Helped unify strong design patterns as the codebase scaled.
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  SponsorCX

  May, 2022 - May, 2023

  Senior Software Engineer

  📈 Software that helps properties and brands manage sponsorships with clearer collaboration. • Owned custom charts and richer dashboard reporting visuals. • Overhauled a generalized spreadsheet data-retrieval system in heavy use across 65+ client accounts. • Maintained developer tooling with Python, Bash, NodeJS, and PowerShell—prioritizing cross-platform reliability. • Cut aggregate backend response times dramatically (reported ~15x) by upgrading hot-path queries.
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  State Center Community College District

  August, 2020 - December, 2021

  Computer Science Tutor

  📚 Tutoring and supplemental instruction (Reedley College area). • Supported 150+ students across statistics, trigonometry, calculus, and related math topics. • Standardized workflows with CS faculty across several languages and sections. • Emphasized first-principles and self-written calculator routines rather than TI-84 “shortcut” features across seven coordinated courses.
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  Shoppy

  May, 2022

  Side Project

  🛍️ Ecommerce platform with full CRUD support. This project uses vanilla PHP 7.4, Composer, MySQL, Docker, and Nginx to build a fully functional ecommerce platform. Shoppy was created as a test for Scandiweb, a web development company based in Riga, Latvia. This website was created to showcase my development of REST APIs, my knowledge of design patterns, and my ability to structure and maintain a full stack web application.
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  XPS Upcharge

  February, 2022

  Side Project

  📦 Userscript that modifies XPS Shipper This project uses TypeScript, Styled Components, React, and Rollup to construct a userscript for use with GreaseMonkey, TamperMonkey, or ViolentMonkey. This script modifies XPS Shipper by calculating upcharges for different vendors based on unique percentages for each vendor. The script uses GreaseMonkey's API in order to save the percentages to a to a database. It also maintains an options menu for setting up settings.
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  Signing Saavy API

  January, 2022

  Side Project

  🧏 Unofficial Python API wrapper for https://signingsavvy.com This project uses Python's Quart package to create a local that can be used to make queries to a REST API. I started this project to help with learning American Sign Language because it is something I have always found interesting and wanted to learn. I ended up using the API to create a script to scrape and construct flashcards for Anki.
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  Gadfly

  October, 2021

  Side Project

  🪰 Google Apps Script homework helper. This project uses Google Apps Script with Clasp, TypeScript, and MediaWiki to create a homework helper that pulls definitions from Wikipedia to help with defining lists. This project was inspired by a homework project one of my friends had for art history where she had to define terms. This helped her to understand the terms that she had to learn.