Harrison V. Samoy
Software Engineer II - Backend / Distributed Systems
Fort Lauderdale, FLhsamoy98@gmail.com
Backend-leaning software engineer with 6+ years of experience building distributed, cloud-native systems and real-time data pipelines. Strong in system design, microservices, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures, with production experience supporting large-scale, high-availability platforms.
Experience
Apr 2024 - Present
Software Engineer II · Orangetheory Fitness
- Primary engineer on a 6-person team that replaced Orangetheory's legacy coach software with OTconnect, the in-studio platform now running live classes in 1,200+ studios across the US, Canada, and Spain. Top contributor to the coach console, studio-local API, and member-facing class board.
- Built the real-time class runtime that streams 1 Hz heart-rate and equipment telemetry between the coach console, the studio performance board, and tablets on treadmills and rowers - 10-20 members per class, ~5,000 classes a day fleet-wide.
- Delivered software to 1,200+ studio computers through staggered GitOps rollouts and a self-updating desktop agent, and built the operator console for software versions, deployment groups, and per-studio overrides.
- Shared a 2-person on-call rotation for 12 months through the national rollout, covering 4am studio opens coast to coast from Eastern time. Automated recovery for recurring disk-full outages that kept studios from starting, then traced the root cause to runaway API container logs.
- Added Apple Watch as a first-class heart-rate source in class, and internationalized the in-studio stack (translation pipeline, French-Canadian and Spanish, metric and imperial units) for studios in Canada and Spain.
- C#
- .NET
- Blazor
- SignalR
- TypeScript
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- ArgoCD
Sept 2023 - Apr 2024
Software Engineer · RXO Inc
- Migrated the team's legacy frontend to Angular, modernizing the stack ahead of planned feature work and establishing unit test coverage where there had been none.
- Built a reusable Angular component library adopted across the 5-person team, eliminating duplicated UI code and unifying the look and feel of the application.
- Angular
- TypeScript
- C#
- REST APIs
Sept 2022 - Sept 2023
Software Engineer · Orangetheory Fitness
- Architected a cloud-native, microservice-based replacement for a legacy internal system, enabling the workout design team to author templates distributed to ~1,500 studios and ~1M members nationwide.
- Supervised a 3-4 engineer international contractor team, providing code review feedback and promoting unit testing practices.
- C#
- .NET
- Microservices
- AWS
- Docker
Aug 2021 - Sept 2022
Software Engineer · ENCO Systems Inc
- Built a cloud-based distributed system for live and recorded media captioning, integrating a third-party speech-to-text engine while preserving its sub-second, near-real-time latency through the pipeline.
- Implemented containerized deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes orchestration from the ground up on a greenfield project, establishing the team's first repeatable deploy process.
- C#
- Python
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- CI/CD
Education
B.S. Computer Science, Cognate in Plant Biology
Michigan State University · 2016 - 2020
Skills
- Languages
- C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, SQL
- Backend & Systems
- Distributed Systems, Microservices, REST APIs, Event-Driven Architecture, SignalR, Caching
- Cloud & DevOps
- AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, ArgoCD
- Frontend
- Angular, React, Blazor
- Practices
- System Design, Automated Testing, Code Reviews, Agile/Scrum