About Me

Brett Ford · Senior Software Engineer & Architect

Colorado

Professional Summary

I am a senior full-stack engineer and cloud architect with 8+ years building distributed systems on AWS. I lead platform migrations and authentication work end to end, and I build tooling that an engineering organization actually adopts.

That work has been in aviation software at Jeppesen ForeFlight, regulated payments at Ibotta, and a defense program at CACI. The projects on this site are personal. Most of the production systems are under confidentiality agreements, so the detail lives here as scope and outcome rather than source code.

Experience

Jeppesen ForeFlight

Englewood, CO · November 2023 – Present

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

  • ▸ Led the platform migration for TripKit as a Service and Ground Controls, from Azure/AKS to AWS/EKS, and set the GitOps promotion, deployment SOPs, and CI/CD conventions a 20-person engineering organization adopted.
  • ▸ Owned Auth0 identity across both products and four external airline partners, replacing a legacy FedProxy dependency with private-key JWT authentication.
  • ▸ Built internal AI agent tooling for feature-flag lifecycle management and pull-request triage. The organization adopted it.
  • ▸ Directed a security audit past its original scope and got a phased remediation plan adopted.

Ibotta, Inc.

Denver, CO · March 2022 – November 2023

Senior Platform Engineer

  • ▸ Architected a purchase adjudication system so categorical purchases could be processed under regulatory requirements. Estimated revenue impact was $3M a year.
  • ▸ Refactored a customer-facing framework and removed 20,000+ lines, which made the codebase easier to change and ship.

CACI / BIT Systems

Aurora, CO · October 2018 – March 2022

Software Engineer

  • ▸ Technically led a 10-person engineering team and put CI/CD practices in place that shortened the path from change to release.
  • ▸ Decomposed a JBoss monolith into 11 microservices and moved the release cadence from quarterly to bi-weekly.

Technical Skills

Languages

  • ▸ Java
  • ▸ JavaScript / TypeScript
  • ▸ Python

Frameworks

  • ▸ Spring Boot
  • ▸ Angular
  • ▸ Svelte

Cloud & Infra

  • ▸ AWS
  • ▸ Docker
  • ▸ Kubernetes
  • ▸ Helm
  • ▸ Terraform
  • ▸ Istio

Data & Delivery

  • ▸ PostgreSQL
  • ▸ MongoDB
  • ▸ Kafka
  • ▸ ArgoCD
  • ▸ Auth0
  • ▸ AWS AppConfig

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

University of Maryland Global Campus · December 2017

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