Harrison V. Samoy

Software Engineer II — Backend / Distributed Systems

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Backend-leaning software engineer with 5+ 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

  1. 2024 — Present

    Software Engineer II · Orangetheory Fitness

    • —Contributing to a ground-up rewrite of mission-critical in-studio software supporting ~1,300 studios and ~1M members nationwide.
    • —Building backend services ingesting real-time telemetry from 32,000+ studio-connected devices.
    • —Implemented a caching layer and event-driven pipelines for near real-time class metrics.

  2. 2023 — 2024

    Software Engineer · RXO Inc

    • —Migrated a legacy frontend to Angular and built a reusable component library.

  3. 2022 — 2023

    Software Engineer · Orangetheory Fitness

    • —Architected a cloud-native, microservice-based replacement for a legacy system.
    • —Mentored an international contractor team and set engineering standards.

  4. 2021 — 2022

    Software Engineer · ENCO Systems Inc

    • —Built a cloud-based distributed system for speech-to-text captioning of live and recorded media.
    • —Implemented containerized deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes orchestration.

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