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\name{Bastian Gruber\\ \\} % Your name at the top

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\address{{\bf Professional} \\ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bastiangruber \\ Project: rustwebdevelopment.com \\ E-Mail: gruberbastian@me.com}

\address{{\bf Code} \\ GitHub: github.com/gruberb \\ } % Your address 2

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Passionate Software Engineer and published Author ("Rust Web Development" - Manning). I have over 10 years of experience working in many roles (Tech Lead, Customer Facing, Systems Engineer, Frontend and Backend), in multiple companies (StartUps with 3-8 people, small businesses with around 50 people and large scale enterprise from 200 to 5.000 people). I organise community events (Rust and Tell Berlin, besides others). I am considered a great team player, and lover of software.


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{\sl Senior Software Engineer - Full-time} \hfill August 2022 - now \\
Centrifuge, Remote \\
Centrifuge works on equalising access to financial products. We create the opportunity to move pooling of funds for loans away from banks-only, and give the chance for small business to apply for loans through our protocol, and for more than one investor to invest in these loans. We use the Polkadot ecosystem to build our product as a base layer.
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\item Working in a self-managed organisation wearing different heads (Head of Documentation, Protocol Engineer)
\item Writing specifications and RFCs 
\item Implemented the Centrifuge protocol with Rust
\item Building out a runtime on top of Substrate
\item Project management, Pull Requests and Issues were all open source
\item Setting up GitHub CI/CD pipelines
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{\sl Sr. Solutions Architect (Professional Services) - Full-time} \hfill June 2020 - August 2022 \\
Twilio Inc., Remote \\
Twilio just started to create their Professional Services team in EMEA and I was the second SA joining their team. The goal is to support and enable small to large scale customers using the Twilio APIs, help them integrate the services, do code reviews and review their architecture.
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\item Acted as the Technical Lead inside Fortune 500 companies
\item Involved in hiring and onboarding
\item Creating architectural specifications
\item Develop reusable deliverables for customers
\item Leading customers through a technical solution
\item Code reviews
\item Setting up sales and feedback cycles
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{\sl Author of "Rust Web Development" } \hfill October 2020 - December 2022 \\
Manning Publications, Remote\\
Writing the book "Rust Web Development". Research, writing and marketing the book in partnership with Manning. 
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\item Selling 3k copies in the first 12 months
\item Interviewed by 5 podcasts
\item Teaching concepts from what a runtime is to how to deploy an efficient Rust code base
\item Copy editing and marketing through different channels
\item Held a Reddit AMA to answer questions from readers and Rustaceans
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{\sl Systems Engineer - Contract} \hfill September 2019 - May 2020 \\
Kraken Digital Currency Exchange, Remote (San Francisco)\\
Part of the first Rust team of the company, replacing the core trading engine with Rust. Worked alongside 12 highly experienced Software Developers from all over the world. Refactor code from PHP to Rust, wrote new features in Rust in a well-tested highly secure manner.
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	\item Re-wrote several PHP services in Rust to increase the throughput 100fold 
	\item Wrote new services in Rust from the ground up
	\item Cross-communication with different teams and the CTO
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{\sl Software Engineer, Tech Lead} \hfill September 2010 -- August 2019 \\
Scholarship, Enterprise, StartUp\\

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	\item Was the first employee in two companies, setting up infrastructure, processes and the tech stack
	\item Worked both as a freelance consultant and full time employee
	\item Guided teams through learning a new language and maintaining a new technology stack
	\item Integrated security related infrastructure for IoT companies
	\item Mentored and guided junior developers
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