More than 11 years of fullstack engineering, focusing on building scalable software, leading development of new products and distributed systems from scratch; from prototype to release.

Skills: Typescript (8 years), React, CSS (8 years), Rust (5 years), Go (4 years), Java (5 years), Postgres, SQLite (5 years), Clickhouse (2 years), Kafka (6 years), AWS (10 years), build/deploy tooling (3 years), infrastructure and observability — Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Loki (4 years), and service-oriented architecture and best practices (10 years).

You can see a full PDF of my resume here.

Contacting me via email is best ([email protected]), but you can also text or call the number on my resume. My GitHub is github.com/vogtb.

Experience

Senior Engineer, Team Lead (July 2023 → June 2025) Replo

  • Designed and implemented A/B testing and web analytics products.
  • Realtime, high-throughput data processing pipeline.
  • Built timeseries query engine with filters, grouping, and aggregation.
  • Implemented OpenTelemetry observability for apps and services.
  • Shipped features for Replo’s WYSIWYG landing page builder.
  • Established alerting best practices, and run-books.
  • Had a lot of fun mentoring smart, enthusiastic junior engineers.

Founder + Engineer (July 2018 → July 2023) Protobase

  • Founded company, and built spreadsheet SaaS product.
  • App focused on separation of code, data, and formatting for sheets.
  • Implemented custom Excel and Google Sheets runtime.
  • Improved spreadsheet workflows with custom query language.

Senior Engineer (January 2016 → July 2018) Signal

  • High-throughput, high-scale data engineering, stream processing.
  • Built distributed processing workflows for time-sensitive features.
  • Worked on migration between large globally distributed databases.
  • Built fast, accurate cardinality calculation system for client reports.

Engineer (July 2014 → January 2016) Signal

  • Shipped fullstack features for Tag Management System product.
  • Maintained Cassandra-backed graph database with 100B entries.
  • Stabilized rapidly scaling customer-facing timeseries data system.
  • Created company-wide documentation search engine.

Projects

Glade (Typescript, WebGPU, Objective-C) glade.graphics

  • Cross-platform GUI library for Typescript that uses WebGPU.
  • Renders apps at >60fps on web and in macOS.
  • Utilizes Google’s Dawn WebGPU library for native graphics.

Education

Beloit College — Beloit, WI (September 2010 → May 2014)

  • BA in Computer Science
  • BA in Theatre Performance