Raymond Vandenberg

About me.

I wrote my first line of code at 12 and never really stopped. Over the past decade I've shipped across the stack (front-end, back-end, and mobile) and picked up sharp product and growth instincts from years inside startups.

Early on, I built and sold a side project that grew past a million monthly views, a crash course in scaling systems and iterating fast under real traffic.

Since then I've served as a team lead and just as happily, gone heads-down as an individual contributor.

10+
Years experience
500K+
Users reached
Millions
Orders processed
20+
Technologies

Experience

  1. Oct 2025 – Present · Remote

    Senior Software Engineer · BRG

    Senior full-stack engineering across the product, working primarily in Ruby on Rails.

  2. Feb 2024 – Oct 2025 · Austin, TX

    Senior Software Development Engineer · Amazon

    Built the internal workspace platform that let Amazon economists provision customizable compute environments (GPU/CPU configurations, attached data sources) on demand and run large-scale AI/ML workloads and experimentation, with no infrastructure or credentials to manage. Led the front end and contributed to the API and infrastructure (Java, Python, React, AWS CDK, Lambda, EKS).

  3. Jan 2017 – Feb 2024 · Remote

    Senior Software Engineer · Pizzamico

    Built the full-stack ordering platform from the ground up (Laravel, Python, React), scaling to 500K+ users and millions of restaurant orders. Grew from engineer to team lead, leading a team of 3 engineers.

  4. Feb 2015 – Jan 2017 · Florida

    Junior Software Engineer · Golevel, LLC

    Built MVPs and production sites for clients in a fast-paced agency environment (Vue, Angular, React, PHP).

Technology

Backend

  • Laravel
    Expert
  • Node
    Expert
  • Python
    Proficient
  • GraphQL
    Proficient
  • Elastic Search
    Proficient
  • Ruby on Rails
    Proficient
  • Go
    Familiar

Frontend

  • Next.js
    Expert
  • React
    Expert
  • TypeScript
    Expert
  • Angular
    Familiar
  • Vue.js
    Expert
  • TailwindCSS
    Proficient

AI & ML

  • AI/ML Platform Engineering
    On-demand GPU/CPU compute for ML workloads
    Proficient
  • LLM APIs & Integration
    OpenAI, Anthropic, embeddings
    Familiar
  • AI-Assisted Development
    Agentic coding tools in daily production work
    Proficient
  • Notebook & Analysis Workflows
    Jupyter, Spark, pandas
    Familiar

Mobile Apps

  • Capacitor & Ionic
    Expert
  • React Native
    Familiar

Data Storage

  • MongoDB
    Familiar
  • Redis
    Proficient
  • MySQL
    Expert
  • PostgreSQL
    Proficient

Infrastructure

  • AWS
    RDS, EC2, S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB
    Expert
  • Azure
    Familiar
  • Docker
    Expert
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