Cody Rushing

Work history

AidKit

Full Stack Software EngineerJanuary 2024present

• Member of the Conversational AI team which delivered a suite of LLM-backed tools including:
  • Automated message drafting to streamline support case management which reduced average case duration by 40%.
  • Document classification pipeline with natural language validation criteria and real-time updates.
  • Bespoke prompt management and conversation generation pipeline allowing partners to author, iterate, and test prompts at scale.
• Led the integration of GiveCard bank transfers into the AidKit platform, which have been used to send 13K+ payments totalling $74M+ to date. Utilizing webhooks to provide real-time payment updates.
• Designed and delivered a privacy-focused video calling solution with end-to-end data ownership using WebRTC and AWS Chime. Used to securely and privately screen 1500+ AidKit recipients.

• TypeScript
• Node.js
• React
• PostgreSQL
• DynamoDB
• AWS
• Claude Code
• Internationalization
• Pulumi
• Python
• Tailwind
• OpenAI SDK
• Webhooks

Elevation (formerly Curb)

Software Team LeadJuly 2016December 2023

• Co‑architected Curb’s microservice cloud platform that enabled real‑time data for 10K+ smart meters and 800+ daily active users, improving system reliability and scalability.
• Designed and implemented internal and public APIs to securely provide historical and real-time energy data using Node.js (Express) and Python (Flask).
• Implemented a custom Redis-backed cache layer around the public API, reducing average request time by 37%.
• Built UI dashboards for fleet admins to monitor thousands of IoT devices and customers, utilizing React and D3.js.
• Rewrote the timeseries data API to use AWS Timestream instead of DynamoDB, unlocking custom binning, aggregations, and interpolation while decreasing average latency by 25%.
• Created quarterly project roadmaps, spearheaded engineering initiatives, and mentored junior engineers.
• Worked closely with the product team to develop functional product specs and translated those into technical design documents.
• Led development of integration and end-to-end tests, increasing API test coverage from 20% to 100%.
• Wrote infrastructure-as-code with AWS CDK to manage the deployment of ECS services, Lambdas, single-page apps, and custom third-party resources.

• TypeScript
• Node.js
• React
• MongoDB
• Redis
• API design
• Auth0
• D3.js
• AWS
• Cypress
• MQTT
• Websockets
• NextJS
• GraphQL

GreenSync

Software EngineerOctober 2015March 2016

• Maintained a customer-facing web app providing real-time electricity metering data and interactive visualizations with D3.js.
• Wrote and maintained a suite of automated browser tests.

• AngularJS
• Ruby on Rails
• Cucumber

Atlassian

Web DeveloperNovember 2014August 2015

• Developed front-end codebase for atlassian.com and associated web properties.
• Implemented a lightweight jQuery-based component library, custom CMS extensions, and streamlined development and build workflows.

Razorfish

Senior Presentation Layer EngineerApril 2012October 2014

Developed

• Engineered high traffic web applications and CMS-backed websites for enterprise clients such as Samsung, Southwest Airlines, BlackBerry, and others.

Monkee-Boy Web Design

Front-End DeveloperJuly 2008April 2012

• Client projects consisting mostly of PHP and WordPress-backed websites.
• Translated custom UI designs into mobile-first websites and web applications.