Ross Nesbitt
Senior Platform Engineer | Distributed Systems | Full-Stack Development
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Professional Overview
Senior platform engineer with 30+ years of systems experience, specializing in distributed computing, full-stack web applications, and production infrastructure at scale. Proven track record building revenue-generating platforms, implementing AI/ML pipelines, and optimizing performance (6X improvements).
Expert in Python, TypeScript/React, Docker, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP). Employee #10 at Proofpoint (email security startup → IPO), currently building distributed AI systems and modern web platforms.
Technical Projects
The Construct - Distributed AI Ensemble Platform
- Architected 3-node distributed computing cluster with Celery task queue and Redis message broker
- Built REST API (Flask/Gunicorn) with 93.8% cache hit rate and SSE streaming
- Developed Node.js frontend with HTML5 Canvas and WebGL 3D rendering
- Optimized performance achieving 6X speedup via ARM architecture evaluation
HapEnews - AI News Analysis Platform
- Built full-stack Next.js 14/TypeScript application with SSR/SSG and Redis
- Implemented advanced web scraping with Playwright anti-bot bypassing Cloudflare/DataDome
- Successfully scraping protected sites (Reuters, Bloomberg, WSJ, NYT)
- Integrated Google AdSense generating revenue
Technical Stack
Backend & Infrastructure
Frontend & UI
Data & AI/ML
Systems & Security
Professional Experience
Proofpoint Automation Engineer
- Architected Python automation processing 60,000+ entitlement records with complex rule-based logic
- Designed testing framework and CI/CD pipeline for OpenShift RHEL deployment
- Integrated with LDAP/Active Directory for large-scale data transformation
Founding Technical Support Engineer & Team Lead
- Built enterprise email security infrastructure from ground up for Fortune 500 clients
- Authored original DR automation (became Proofpoint's official failover product)
- Performance-tuned production MySQL clusters across three continents
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
- Transformed Ruby on Rails platform from 1 to 10 concurrent transactions through systematic performance tuning
- Diagnosed and resolved database performance issues using New Relic and Splunk
What Sets Me Apart
Distributed Systems
Production experience building multi-node clusters, message queues, and microservices architectures with proven 6X performance optimization.
Full-Stack Development
Modern web applications with Next.js/React/TypeScript frontend and Python/Node.js backend. Revenue-generating production platforms.
Systems Veteran
30+ years from startup to enterprise scale. Employee #10 at Proofpoint through IPO. Deep Linux, security, and infrastructure expertise.