{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Vanessa Nicole Naff",
    "label": "Backend software engineer (Go) · mentor, educator, community builder",
    "email": "hello@sourcekitten.com",
    "url": "https://sourcekitten.com",
    "summary": "Backend software engineer (Go) with four years on live video streaming infrastructure at iStreamPlanet and Warner Bros. Discovery, plus high-throughput APIs, observability, and privacy engineering. Mentor, educator, and community builder.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Seattle",
      "region": "WA"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "axiomista",
        "url": "https://github.com/axiomista"
      },
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "vanessanaff",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessanaff"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "AutoBridge Systems",
      "position": "Developer Community Lead (contract)",
      "startDate": "2025-10",
      "summary": "Agentic AI platform for government and enterprise.",
      "highlights": [
        "Build sample applications, demo code, and API integrations showing developers how to build on the platform; assembled public APIs and starter code for an \"Advent of APIs\" developer event.",
        "Author API documentation, training curriculum, and onboarding; coordinate across product and engineering to create a cohesive developer experience."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Rosie Match",
      "position": "Fractional Software Engineer (contract)",
      "startDate": "2025-10",
      "highlights": [
        "Improved operational experiences in production React/TypeScript applications, shipping bug fixes and reworking user flows and state management."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Warner Bros. Discovery (iStreamPlanet, WarnerMedia)",
      "position": "Platform Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2020-05",
      "endDate": "2024-06",
      "highlights": [
        "Owned the playback position tracking service for live sports clients serving millions of daily users. Partnered with SRE on rate limiting and led load testing ahead of high-traffic events, including Copa América for the LATAM market via DIRECTV.",
        "Built network-level tooling in Go for zero-downtime node handover on live streams; collaborated on transcoding and stream-monitoring tools that re-encode sources in real time for sports, news, and other live events.",
        "Identified that traces were being lost between services and extended Datadog APM tracing across team services to close the gap, enabling end-to-end production debugging. Built dashboards and alerts for critical services."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Preclusio (YC S19)",
      "position": "Founding Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2019-10",
      "endDate": "2020-12",
      "highlights": [
        "Co-owned the full product lifecycle at a two-engineer Y Combinator startup building GDPR and CCPA compliance tooling; continued part-time through the company's wind-down in December 2020.",
        "Built a data-source scanning service that sampled schemas, detected PII and privacy risks, and surfaced findings, including downstream consumers, to CISOs. Shipped as a containerized Go binary installed alongside customer data stores, so data never left the customer environment.",
        "Built a React schema visualization mapping database fields with sensitive data highlighted, plus install scripts and in-app guidance that diagnosed network and port configuration issues."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Glympse",
      "position": "Backend Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2018-03",
      "endDate": "2019-10",
      "highlights": [
        "Profiled and benchmarked REST and gRPC APIs handling 100M+ requests/day; reduced latency through connection pooling and caching.",
        "Co-designed the microservices architecture replacing a legacy Python 2 monolith; chose Kafka for strict per-partition ordering to preserve GPS data integrity.",
        "Led design meetings and wrote specs for new services with SRE and Customer teams; standardized handlers across a multi-repository codebase to speed onboarding."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Garden City Group (now Epiq)",
      "position": "Data Engineer \u0026 Full-Stack Developer",
      "startDate": "2015-10",
      "endDate": "2018-02",
      "highlights": [
        "Built microservices, Angular/TypeScript front-end components, and deployment scripts for enterprise software handling legal and financial data under federal court compliance requirements.",
        "Automated compliance-critical ETL on client data sets of 20–60M records per project; designed parameterized data objects for calculation, evaluation, and reporting. Mentored the team in T-SQL best practices."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "volunteer": [
    {
      "organization": "Seattle Tech Communities",
      "position": "Meetup Organizer / Committee Chair",
      "startDate": "2018-04",
      "summary": "Refactoring Tech, Papers We Love Seattle, Seattle Go User Group, Latinos in Tech Seattle.",
      "highlights": [
        "Procure venues, recruit speakers, and organize panels; build spaces where engineers share skills and grow together, focused on increasing access and opportunity in tech for people with underrepresented identities."
      ]
    },
    {
      "organization": "Ada Developers Academy",
      "position": "CS Fundamentals Tutor",
      "startDate": "2018-10",
      "endDate": "2020-02",
      "highlights": [
        "Guided new developers one-on-one through a computer science curriculum and software projects, with a professional mentorship component."
      ]
    },
    {
      "organization": "Girl Develop It",
      "position": "Data Structures \u0026 Algorithms Instructor",
      "startDate": "2018-10",
      "endDate": "2018-12",
      "highlights": [
        "Taught and created class materials for early-career developers identifying as women or non-binary people."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "The University of Arizona",
      "area": "Mathematics, minor in Biochemistry \u0026 Biochemical Engineering",
      "location": "Tucson, AZ"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Languages",
      "keywords": [
        "Go",
        "Python",
        "SQL (various flavors)",
        "JavaScript/TypeScript",
        "Node.js",
        "C#",
        "Java",
        "shell"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Backend \u0026 Systems",
      "keywords": [
        "API and services design (REST, gRPC)",
        "microservices",
        "system design",
        "event streaming",
        "database implementation",
        "privacy \u0026 security"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Video",
      "keywords": [
        "live streaming",
        "real-time transcoding and re-encoding",
        "stream monitoring",
        "playback services",
        "live-event load testing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Infrastructure \u0026 Observability",
      "keywords": [
        "Kubernetes",
        "Helm",
        "Argo CD",
        "HashiCorp (Nomad, Consul, Vault)",
        "Docker",
        "Kafka",
        "RabbitMQ",
        "Elasticsearch",
        "GitLab CI/CD",
        "Datadog (APM, dashboards, alerting)",
        "AWS (S3, EC2, Lambda, CloudFront, SNS, SQS)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "AI \u0026 Agents",
      "keywords": [
        "agentic API design",
        "MCP servers",
        "LLM-assisted development"
      ]
    }
  ]
}