Arlo J. Purcell's CV

• Phone: +1 610 255 7154
• Email: arlo@purcell.live
• Website: arlopurcell.github.io
• GitHub: arlopurcell
• LinkedIn: arlopurcell

Summary

I have a wide variety of experience and interest within various fields of computing, with experience from point of sale software to machine learning to giant internet companies. I am looking to expand my horizons, solve interesting problems, and build great things.

Skills

Languages: Python, Rust, Elixir, Java, Kotlin, Scala, SQL, Bash, Golang, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS

Technologies: Claude Code, React, Terraform, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, gRPC, REST, GraphQL, FastAPI, Django, LLMs, AI

Experience

CloneForce, Senior Software Engineer

Remote

Nov 2025 – June 2026

8 months

• Built a platform for enterprises to provision and use LLM agents

• Integrated with Twilio to enable communication with agents via SMS and WhatsApp

• Built system to upload and normalize files for use in the knowledge base

• Created tooling to migrate clones between the legacy and new systems

• Used coding agents on a daily basis to accelerate development

Guideline, Senior Software Engineer

Remote

June 2025 – Aug 2025

3 months

• Added support for flexible billing to Guideline's 401k plans

• Improved test coverage for document generation modules

• Used Cursor and LLMs to assist with software engineering

• Collaborated with other engineers and teams to solidify requirements for new features

Iterative Health, Senior Software Engineer

Remote

Feb 2023 – Feb 2025

2 years 1 month

• Built web app for managing patient journeys using a React frontend and a Python FastAPI backend

• Integrated with internal GraphQL service to manage patient journey data

• Created a system for on-demand decomposition of video frames

• Supported the machine learning team by creating new tools

• Made improvements to ML pipeline as needed for new models and use cases

• Helped standardize the ML model life cycle using containerization

Royal.io, Staff Software Engineer

Remote

Aug 2022 – Dec 2022

5 months

• Created generic meta transaction flow for handling various types of blockchain transactions

• Worked on Graph QL interfaces for payments backend

• Integrated with 3rd party vendors to on ramp and off ramp funds to and from the platform

• Built GRPC endpoints to communicate between microservices

Decodable, Staff Software Engineer

Remote

July 2021 – July 2022

1 year 1 month

• Implemented live streaming data preview on Apache Flink

• Built system to deploy software across multi-tenant kubernetes cluster

• Created system to automatedly access stream metadata in Decodable environment

• Helped to build core streaming data platform

Indeed.com, Staff Software Engineer

Austin, TX

Aug 2014 – July 2021

7 years

• Led an internal incubator team working on an two way marketplace for child care jobs

• Worked on internal system for categorizing and routing sales leads

• Implemented and supported internal tooling for other engineers

• Created internal developer environment system using bash and python scripts around docker

• Maintained and improved internal deployment management webapp using a soy template with JQuery frontend and a Java/Spring/Tomcat backend interfacing with git and Gitlab and Atlassian APIs

• Improved job posting javascript frontend using Closure library and compiler with soy template

IPsoft, Research & Development Engineer

Austin, TX

Feb 2013 – Aug 2014

1 year 7 months

• Led a geographically separated team of developers in the creation of a new artificial intelligence system for human interaction, supported by relational and graph databases

• Managed the project using agile methodologies

• Designed and implemented a first order logic engine for interpreting and then acting upon natural language

• Conceived and realized the system for dynamically creating and executing new business processes

• Fine tuned module for understanding, analyzing, and storing natural language, then generating natural language responses

• Demonstrated and explained the functionality and design of the system to high level executives at enterprise clients

Google, Software Engineer

New York, NY

Feb 2012 – Feb 2013

1 year 1 month

• Developed library for deploying video ads in client applications

• Fixed bugs in Flash, Javascript, iOS, and Android versions of the library

• Designed and implemented an original new version of the Android library

• Created a new version of the library for Samsung smart TV

• Maintained and expanded unit and integration tests

• Managed public releases of the library

• Meticulously documented all code changes and new additions

Micros Retail, Associate Applications Engineer

Solon, OH

Aug 2010 – Mar 2012

1 year 8 months

• Developed Java point of sale application

• Developed and deployed iOS point of sale application

• Designed and implemented customer specific modifications

• Worked with quality assurance and customers to determine requirements and resolve issues

Education

Oberlin College, Computer Science, Physics

BA

Sept 2007 – May 2010