RÉSUMÉ / RANDY AUGUSTUS

Senior full-stack
software engineer.

Lenexa, Kansas · randy@augustusengineering.com

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Full-stack software engineer with 14+ years building web applications, APIs, and data-backed services in fintech, insurance, and governance, risk, and compliance software, mostly on C# and .NET with Angular on the front end and Python for services. Built message-driven trading platform microservices at Orion, led the .NET Core and Azure migration at Americo, and most recently led a team of five at Archer, setting technical direction. Builds and runs two LLM-backed products through Augustus Engineering.

Experience

Founder

Augustus Engineering · Lenexa, KS

July 2025 to Present

  • Built BudgetScope, a grocery price tracking app in public beta; a .NET API on MySQL, an Angular web front end, a Swift iOS app, and a Python service that parses receipts with RapidOCR and falls back to the Claude API when the parser cannot reconcile a receipt.
  • Built My Money Ledger, a personal finance app for iPhone and Mac in private beta; a Python and FastAPI backend links bank accounts through Plaid, with Firebase auth, Celery background jobs, and Redis caching.
  • Built the My Money Ledger assistant to run Qwen3 on device (MLX on Mac, a 4-bit quantized model on iPhone 17 Pro and later), Apple's foundation model, or Claude behind the same eight read-only tools, with a grounding check that confirms each number came from a tool before the user sees it.
  • Run both products in Docker across a Proxmox homelab and DigitalOcean, with Jenkins build gates, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Engineering Manager

Archer Integrated Risk Management · Overland Park, KS

October 2024 to October 2026

  • Led a team of 5 engineers and owned delivery outcomes across the product portfolio; mentored engineers through goal-setting and career development.
  • Prototyped PRDs and technical spikes with Microsoft Copilot and validated direction with stakeholders before committing engineering time.
  • Used Datadog for production monitoring and troubleshooting across the team's services.

Software Engineer

Orion Advisor Technology · Omaha, NE

October 2020 to October 2024

  • Integrated RabbitMQ and Amazon SQS via MassTransit to support fault-tolerant, message-driven workflows across distributed trading platform microservices.
  • Designed and shipped resilient RESTful APIs for trading platforms on .NET Core, integrating enterprise auth and data layers.
  • Built Angular front-end features for the trading platform across all four years, including forms, settings pages, and tactical trading dashboards.
  • Carried a production on-call rotation for four years, using Datadog to triage and resolve incidents in trading platform services.
  • Boosted data processing speed by 50% with concurrency patterns in the Microsoft Task Parallel Library, and cut CRUD operation time by 30% by batching database calls with Entity Framework Plus.
  • Increased code coverage by 5% through testing and refactoring; built test suites using xUnit (.NET) and Mocha (TypeScript).
  • Paired with teammates across experience levels and ran code reviews to raise engineering standards across the team.

Technical Lead / Software Engineer

Americo Life Insurance Company · Kansas City, MO

August 2016 to October 2020

  • Led a 3-engineer team through the company's migration to .NET Core and Azure; designed training paths, onboarded the team, and owned the architectural roadmap.
  • Built middleware APIs connecting front-end applications to Azure Blob Storage and SQL backends, meeting strict latency SLAs.
  • Defined deployment strategy using Octopus Deploy for Blue/Green production rollouts, enabling zero-downtime releases.
  • Used Application Insights telemetry to identify bottlenecks and optimize key endpoints.
  • Raised code quality and maintainability by 20% by authoring and enforcing internal coding standards and design patterns.

Software Engineer I / II

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City · Kansas City, MO

August 2012 to August 2016

  • Shipped enterprise software through compliance-driven SDLC processes with structured release cycles.
  • Refactored legacy systems into MVC architecture, improving modularity and testability across the codebase.
  • Optimized data retrieval by 15% by developing new database objects and tuning SQL queries.
  • Improved project alignment by 10% by leading stakeholder sessions for requirements gathering and translating technical concepts for executive decision-makers.

Education & certification

Park University · Parkville, MO

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Software Engineering

AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Associate

Issued April 2026

Technical & leadership skills

Languages
C#, TypeScript, Python, SQL, Swift, Bash
Back End and APIs
.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, MVC, REST API Design, Microservices, Message-Driven Architecture, Entity Framework, Entity Framework Plus, FastAPI, Celery
Front End
Angular, TypeScript, Chart.js, Blazor
Design
Object-Oriented Design, Design Patterns, Data Modeling, Distributed Systems, Multi-Tier Architecture, Concurrency, Performance Tuning
Data and Messaging
SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, pgvector, Redis, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, MassTransit
Cloud and Containers
AWS, Azure (Blob Storage, SQL backends, Application Insights), DigitalOcean, Docker, Docker Compose, Proxmox
CI/CD and Testing
Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, Blue/Green Deployments, Git, xUnit, Mocha, pytest, Playwright
Observability
Datadog, Application Insights, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, On-Call Incident Response
Models and Inference
Qwen3, MLX, 4-bit quantization, Apple Foundation Models, Claude API, OpenAI API, Anthropic SDK, LLM Pipelines, Tool Calling, RapidOCR, Vision-Language Models, Agent Orchestration
AI Development Tools
Claude Code, GitHub Copilot Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Perplexity
Leadership
Technical Leadership, Mentorship, Code Review, Estimation and Planning, Stakeholder Communication, Agile/Scrum

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