{ "basics": { "name": "Jayson Virissimo", "label": "Senior Software Engineer", "email": "jayson.virissimo@asu.edu", "website": "http://virissimo.info/", "location": { "city": "Prescott Valley", "countryCode": "US", "region": "Arizona" }, "profiles": [ { "network": "GitHub", "username": "jaysonvirissimo", "url": "https://github.com/jaysonvirissimo" }, { "network": "LinkedIn", "username": "jaysonvirissimo", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaysonvirissimo" } ] }, "work": [ { "company": "SUBSCRIBE", "position": "Staff Software Engineer", "startDate": "2023-02-27", "highlights": [ "Architected and led the technical implementation of a mission-critical integration with one of the nation's largest independent broker-dealers, enabling alternative investment access through automatic account imports, hierarchical team management, and real-time licensing/training verification — the system has processed hundreds of thousands of accounts and serves over a thousand active users", "Matured that first broker-dealer integration into stable infrastructure by strengthening data validation, resolving race conditions in account and team creation, retiring 30+ feature toggles, and refactoring modules for long-term maintainability", "Owned a second integration end-to-end with a major full-service wealth management firm, from requirements discovery through implementation, designing a configuration-driven import pipeline intentionally generalized so future integrations can onboard with minimal custom code", "Represented the company in technical discussions with engineers and managers at both partner broker-dealers, translating complex architectural and regulatory constraints into actionable decisions for both technical and non-technical stakeholders", "Onboarded and mentored an engineer to independently own the first broker-dealer integration's development and support, enabling a clean handoff and sustained operational continuity", "Spearheaded the research, design, and development of a Learning Management System, enabling financial advisors to undergo multimedia trainings for investment product access. Integrated real-time data synchronization with external platforms, fortified authentication and authorization mechanisms, and incorporated export features for enhanced usability", "Resolved user importer performance issues for our largest integration partner by refactoring our team structure and implementing a series of data migrations that safely destroyed tens of millions of unnecessary records", "Resolved production incidents beyond core responsibilities, including terminating database-locking queries blocking deployments, fixing unsafe migrations, and investigating SSO-related errors across integrations", "Decreased CI runtime by ~5 minutes by profiling Argo workflow steps and resizing test suite chunks to maximize the benefit of parallelism", "Interviewed software engineer candidates" ], "summary": "Owned end-to-end delivery of broker-dealer integrations and maintained critical infrastructure as member of Core Team" }, { "company": "Handshake", "position": "Senior Software Engineer", "startDate": "2022-05-09", "endDate": "2023-02-01", "highlights": [ "Worked with PM and designers to create architectural decision records", "Migrated expensive operations from monolith to messaging miniservice", "Modelled career fair business rules as GraphQL types", "Replaced inbox RESTful endpoints with analogous GraphQL mutations", "Introduced command objects to legacy controller actions to reduce feature rollout risk", "Participated in hackathon project that inspired real production features", "Mentored interns and junior developers", "Worked with EM to improve code review practices and code quality metrics" ], "summary": "Maintained and added features to student and employer inboxes (and associated services)" }, { "company": "Tuft & Needle", "position": "Engineering Manager", "startDate": "2019-01-01", "endDate": "2022-04-29", "highlights": [ "Lead standups, grooming, planning, retrospectives, and created architecture documents", "Helped my direct reports develop career progression plans and learning goals", "Improved checkout performance and fixed security vulnerabilities", "Implemented idempotent charge step to avoid double charges improving customer ratings", "Designed and implemented shipping address validation result caching", "Updated register to scrub out-of-stock items from customer carts", "Determined team's objectives and key results", "Helped stakeholders prioritize feature development and system maintenance", "Negociated with business for promotions and raises for direct reports", "Automated FedEx shipment handling requests", "Implemented secure deactivation of user records", "Integrated with Textline API and implemented double opt-in flow", "Add custom fraud check rules for Affirm and PayPal payment methods" ], "summary": "Lead teams responsible for customer experience tooling, checkout, payments, promotions, and the retail POS system" }, { "company": "Tuft & Needle", "position": "Software Engineer", "startDate": "2015-09-08", "endDate": "2018-12-31", "highlights": [ "Upgraded large monolith Rails application from 4.2 -> 5.2 and Ruby from 2.4 -> 2.6", "Designed and implemented sales tax service outage fallback system", "Discovered and hardened against SQL-injection vulnerabilities in operations portal", "Designed and implemented passwordless POS system authentication", "Add DOS attack protection to high throughput grape endpoints", "Introduced automated performance testing and reduced product queries 22-fold" ], "summary": "Built tools for customer experience users and automated product fulfillment flows" }, { "company": "JetPack Enterprises", "position": "Web Developer", "startDate": "2015-02-01", "endDate": "2015-08-21", "highlights": [], "summary": "Repaired, refactored, and added features to legacy software projects" }, { "company": "Bloom & Speak Bilingual Tx", "position": "Co-founder", "startDate": "2012-01-01", "endDate": "2017-09-01", "highlights": [] } ], "education": [ { "institution": "Arizona State University", "area": "Political Science", "studyType": "Bachelor of Science", "startDate": "2005-08-20", "endDate": "2009-05-11", "courses": [] }, { "institution": "Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association", "area": "Fundamentals of Alternative Investments", "studyType": "Certificate", "endDate": "2023-08-08" }, { "institution": "FINRA", "area": "Securities Industry Essentials", "studyType": "Exam", "endDate": "2025-01-09" }, { "institution": "Apollo GraphQL", "area": "Graph Developer", "studyType": "Associate Certification", "endDate": "2025-09-07" } ], "languages": [ { "language": "English", "fluency": "Native speaker" }, { "language": "Portuguese", "fluency": "A2 (Certificado inicial de português língua estrangeira)" } ], "skills": [ { "keywords": [ "Ruby", "Rails", "SQL", "HTML", "JavaScript", "GraphQL", "React", "TypeScript", "CSS", "REST" ] } ] }