I wear many hats…such as fractional-CTO, software engineer, site reliability engineer and content creator
Hi, I'm Susan Potter, a software engineer and architect with over 25 years of experience primarily in B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), spanning technical leadership roles at innovative startups, major hedge funds, and wealth management firms. I’ve had the privilege of working at industry leaders like Salesforce.com. My work focuses on architecting resilient, high-scale platforms and providing strategic technical direction for SaaS businesses.
I wear many hats, the following are some of the hats that I wear today:
Software Engineer
- I have used Functional Programming in Haskell, PureScript, and Scala. I am restarting a newsletter on this topic called fun(ctional) prog(ramming) .
- I leverage DevOps practices such as Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), multi-region cloud deployments in AWS, congruent configuration, consistent environments, and more.
- I have Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience with large server fleets in datacenters, cloud environments, and migrating from datacenters to AWS.
- I've previously worked in "full-stack" development roles (web frontends, backends, and APIs) using Ruby (Rails), Python, TypeScript, JavaScript.
Early-Stage CTO-on-demand
- I work with early-stage startups that have typically delivered a true MVP to prove out their idea, but the MVP needs help to productionize it from increasing scalability of backend systems to polishing up the web frontend. That's where I come in.
- Keep your equity and compensate me with a fixed monthly rate retainer with set hours.
- I've helped startups find the right kind of Chief Technology Officer for the next 2-3 stages of the startup who can grow with the business and work with management to determine the right kind of skills to hire for in engineering after receiving funding.
Content Creator
- I once wrote and contributed a chapter to the The Architecture of Open Source Applications Volume II about Git.
- I've given talks based on my professional experience building operational infrastructure for modern software products using functional programming via Nix/NixOS, as well as how to dynamically scaling AWS EC2/ASGs infrastructure at a highly variable traffic news site, and why we should be thinking of using Haskell for development (from 2012).
- I'm launching a YouTube channel on functional programming. Coming soon.