BEN NUSSER

About

Staff-level engineer with a track record of building greenfield, high-impact platforms inside major enterprises like Apple TV, CAA, and Disney. Particularly compelling for teams that need startup-style ownership with enterprise-grade execution: they’ve driven cross-department adoption, built AI and real-time systems hands-on, and delivered measurable operational gains in media, content, and ERP environments.

Key Strengths

• 0-to-1 internal platform building in startup-like environments
• End-to-end full-stack ownership across React, Node.js, Go, and Python
• Cross-functional stakeholder alignment and adoption across five departments
• Production workflow optimization reducing turnaround from 5 days to 72 hours
• High-concurrency Go services with p99 latency improved from 400ms to under 150ms
• AWS containerized deployment with Docker and ECS
• Observability tooling that prevented roughly 15 hours of monthly downtime
• Recent hands-on work in Go, Python, TypeScript, and React
• AI/LLM systems development including RAG and orchestration pipelines
• Content distribution automation reducing publishing time from 3 days to under 4 hours
• Database performance optimization cutting report generation from 10 minutes to 90 seconds
• Large-scale migration reliability for 5.2 million records with audit time reduced from 48 hours to under 4 hours
• Enterprise systems experience in high-stakes environments like payroll and media production
• GDPR-compliant Next.js and TypeScript architecture migration

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