Julian Prokay
Full-stack developer with 15 years of experience architecting systems, building teams, and deploying infrastructure
Work History
Counterpart
[Jun. 2024 - Present]Tech Lead Manager
- Leading a team of 5 engineers to build a bespoke insurance program for a national carrier
- Restructuring hiring & onboarding processes to make them more consistent & effective
- Architecting a new system to generate policy bundles consisting of thousands of PDF pages within seconds
- Tech: Typescript | Python | Django | AWS
TrueBuilt Software
[Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2024]CTO & Cofounder
- Hired and lead a team of 5 engineers and 1 designer to produce a pre-construction software suite in the cloud
- Implemented a modified version of Shape-Up using Linear & Notion to encourage autonomy & increase speed of feature development
- Key features include: Multiplayer, computer-vision assisted tools, large PDF processing (1000+ page documents), text search
- Tech: Typescript | NextJS | Vercel | AWS | Roboflow
Assistalong
[Mar. 2021 - Mar. 2022]Founding Software Engineer
- Architected and designed a Ruby on Rails API serving a mobile shoppng cart created with NextJS. A Shopify storefront could use AssistAlong to generate mobile-friendly webpages for featured items
- Developed an automatic reminder system via Twilio and Stripe to support re-purchasing an item via SMS
- Tech: NextJS | Ruby on Rails | AWS | Shopify
Workday
[Feb. 2015 - Feb. 2022]Principal Software Engineer - Internal Tools
- Refactored an internal, legacy Scala application responsible for parsing and storing 5+ terabytes of log files per week, migrated the database infrastructure from on-premise to Mongo Atlas, and increased uptime to 99%
- Created a full-stack Ruby on Rails application to streamline the testing of the Workday application via parallel test execution across a pool of thousands of Amazon EC2 instances saving an individual developer hundreds of hours a month of test time
- Won a company-wide Hackathon by building a revision control system for the Workday application which was later developed into a production-ready tool
- Tech: Ruby on Rails | Scala | MongoDB