Summary
Isaac Sek is a Seattle-based software engineer with 9 years of experience building and scaling large-scale distributed systems. At Nordstrom, he engineered a Kafka-based inventory event-streaming platform, shortened production release cycles, and drove substantial cost savings through Kubernetes adoption and streamlined CI/CD practices. He currently applies his backend and data-driven mindset at Robinhood on the Spending Platform, delivering reliable, scalable services in a high-traffic fintech environment. His work spans Java/Spring microservices, Kafka, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, and performance tuning, with a track record of mentoring teams and improving deployment pipelines. He holds a BS in Computer Science from UW Bothell (with earlier Geography studies at UW) and brings a cross-disciplinary perspective to product development. An active self-starter with a strong craft for production-grade systems, Isaac maintains a personal site at isaacsek.com.
9 years of coding experience