Graham Batzler

Full-Stack Principal Engineer & Technical Lead

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Engineer, mentor, and leader with broad experience understanding, communicating, and solving business problems with technology. I am passionate about improving lives and outcomes with resilient systems and processes that scale.

Selected Experience

Technology Consultant & Freelance Contractor
grahammakes | Remote

Strategic, technical, and creative execution of short and long term multi-disciplinary projects. Highlights include full-stack product development and go-to-market strategy for small businesses, SEO and GEO for Amazon, commercial audio engineering, edge AI and machine learning.

Principal Software Engineer
Hearst Marketplaces | Seattle, WA

Built and scaled a system for multi-tenant ecommerce, launching seven branded marketplaces reliably and repeatably. Successfully hired and led a high-velocity team of 6 full-stack and frontend engineers. Built custom CI/CD and observability infrastructure to accelerate timelines and decisions. Served as SME and mentor across a broad set of in-house and vendor systems, reverse-engineering undocumented functionality and consulting on architecture across multiple teams.

Lead Software Engineer
The Pro's Closet | Louisville, CO

Architected, built, and maintained ecommerce systems for internal and customer-facing use, working closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to solve problems and streamline operations. Served as Front-End Architect and Node.js SME, managed two direct reports, mentored engineers of all skill levels across the stack. Contributed to department-level engineering standards, SDLC process, interviewing guidelines, and platform improvements.

Senior Software Engineer
Bluprint | Denver, CO

Refactored legacy systems into modern distributed scalable services. Established unit and integration testing practices to improve reliability. Mentored junior developers and participated in SRE and site architecture discussions.

Front End Engineer
1stdibs | Manhattan, NY

Maintained and improved enterprise ecommerce systems. Redesigned, refactored, and modernized full-stack B2C messaging platform including frontend React UI, GraphQL middleware, and search with Apache Solr.

Game Developer
Little Bird Games | Philadelphia, PA

Built educational games using web native technologies like HTML5 Canvas & Audio APIs. Highlights include a PTSD detection training tool used by the American Nursing Association and ADHD therapy games for use in clinical trials at Duke University.

IT Manager
Penn Residential Computing | Philadelphia, PA

Managed a team of ten IT staff, including scheduling and operations responsibilities. Provided hardware and software support, diagnosis, and repair on complex and escalated cases. Reported to department heads and drove efficiency improvements.