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Open to new roles · Bellingham, WA

Andrew Rose

Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who owns systems end-to-end in fintech.

I build third-party integrations, microservice platforms, financial rails, and the CI/CD that ships them.

4+ yrs
in fintech
40-service
platform
$15M+
AUM systems
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About

I'm a full-stack software engineer with 4+ years building backend-heavy distributed systems in fintech. My strength is owning systems end-to-end: designing the APIs and event-driven services, wiring up the integrations, and building the CI/CD that ships them.

At a fund-management firm overseeing ~$10B in assets, I solo-delivered the largest third-party integration on the books and grew a 40-microservice platform into shared infrastructure spanning HSA and 401(k) operations, including the trade execution and ACH settlement behind accounts managing $15M+. I like the problems where correctness actually matters: money movement, financial rails, and data feeds that can't silently drift.

I'm looking for a team solving hard backend and distributed-systems problems at scale, where I can keep owning systems end-to-end and grow toward senior. If that sounds like your team, my inbox is open.

Andrew Rose
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Selected Work

Highlights from my time shipping production fintech systems, focused on ownership and scope. The full history lives on my resume.

Saturna Capital · Software Engineer

Jul 2022 – Present · Bellingham, WA

Backend-heavy distributed systems for HSA and 401(k) operations: integrations, financial rails, and the platform that runs them.

  • Solely designed and delivered the firm's largest third-party integration: a payroll API that automates biweekly payroll and demographic feeds for 401(k) recordkeeping across 50+ employer connections (scaling toward 300) and 100+ entities. It eliminated hours of manual CSV prep and a recurring source of data-entry errors each pay cycle.
  • Led design and development of multiple services within a 40-microservice backend platform (NestJS, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, GraphQL/Hasura), extending it from a single product into shared infrastructure that automates fund, performance, and payroll data feeds.
  • Engineered automated trade execution, fund networking, and settlement for an HSA platform managing 1,700+ accounts and $15M+ in AUM, interfacing with NSCC/DTCC for trades and generating NACHA/ACH files for deposits and withdrawals.
  • Shipped a self-service employer portal that replaced a manual spreadsheet-and-email workflow with authenticated file uploads, automated transaction generation, and full audit history, cutting an estimated 5 to 10 hours of back-office processing per week.
  • Containerized three production sites into a Docker Swarm cluster with automated GitLab CI/CD, replacing manual multi-node SSH deployments with push-to-deploy across staging and production.
  • Replaced the firm's fund-data provider, automating daily fund and monthly performance ingestion into downstream systems and the public site, cutting licensing costs by roughly 80% (from $70K to $12K annually).
  • NestJS
  • PostgreSQL
  • RabbitMQ
  • GraphQL
  • Next.js
  • Docker
  • GitLab CI/CD

Swinomish Casino & Lodge · AV/IT Technician II

Jan 2019 – Jul 2022 · Anacortes, WA

Enterprise IT and infrastructure in a compliance-driven environment (promoted from Technician I).

  • Administered 250+ employee accounts and 500+ network devices via Active Directory while maintaining network performance, security, and uptime.
  • Automated Windows imaging, deployment, and updates with PowerShell and Python, cutting provisioning and update time.
  • Led compliance-driven infrastructure upgrades, deploying and configuring servers and switches to gaming-industry security standards.
  • PowerShell
  • Python
  • Active Directory
  • Windows Server
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Projects

A few things I've built outside of work, going deep on problems that interest me: backend systems, full-stack apps, and game systems.

Algorithmic Backtesting & Execution Engine

2024

An engineering project exploring the systems behind systematic strategies: ingesting historical market data, running strategies through a backtesting harness, and executing orders live through the Alpaca brokerage API. Built to understand the data pipeline and execution loop end-to-end, not as a product.

  • Python
  • Alpaca API
  • Backtesting

Personal Finance Assistant

2024

A full-stack web app that links bank accounts via Plaid, retrieves and normalizes transactions, and categorizes spending. Built end-to-end: secure auth, data sync, and a clean dashboard.

  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Plaid API

Dice Roguelike

2023

A turn-based roguelike where combat runs on customizable dice faces and runs unfold across procedurally generated maps. Built in Unity as an exploration of game systems and procedural generation.

  • Unity
  • C#
  • Procedural Generation
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Skills

Tools I reach for regularly and can whiteboard in an interview.

Languages
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • PHP
  • SQL
  • C#
Backend
  • NestJS
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • GraphQL
  • Hasura
  • RabbitMQ
  • REST APIs
  • Microservices
Frontend
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Drupal
Data & Infrastructure
  • PostgreSQL
  • MSSQL
  • Docker
  • Docker Swarm
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • DigitalOcean
Practices
  • Distributed Systems
  • Event-Driven Architecture
  • API Design
  • CI/CD
  • Testing (Jest)
  • Agile
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Contact

I'm open to backend and full-stack roles where systems thinking matters. Let's talk.