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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