Spencer Ferris

Full-stack engineer and technical leader with 10 years of experience building scalable systems used by millions of customers.

Find me here

• GitHub: github.com/spencewenski
• Website: spencewenski.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/spencerferris

Projects & Open Source

• PGMQ (Collaborator; 5K stars) - Message queue similar to AWS SQS but backed by Postgres. Rust, Postgres.
• Roadster (Creator) - A "Batteries Included" web framework for rust designed to get you moving fast. Rust, Sidekiq, Postgres, SeaORM, Diesel, OpenAPI, SMTP, OpenTelemetry.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), Frontend development (React, TypeScript), REST API development (Ruby on Rails, Java Spring, Rust), Asynchronous workloads (SQS, Sidekiq, Ruby, Java, Rust), Mobile app development (Android, Java), Efficient database design (Mongo, Postgres, SQL), Test automation (Playwright, Cypress, Vitest, JUnit), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Agile/Scrum (Jira)