I am a staff-level software engineer with 20+ years of experience across startups and FAANG-scale systems. I focus on technical leadership as an individual contributor: guiding architecture, raising engineering standards, and mentoring engineers while staying hands-on with coding.

Gary Arnold

I am a staff-level software engineer with 20+ years of experience across startups and FAANG-scale systems. I focus on technical leadership as an individual contributor: guiding architecture, raising engineering standards, and mentoring engineers while staying hands-on with coding.

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I am a staff-level software engineer with 20+ years of experience across startups and FAANG-scale systems.

I focus on technical leadership as an individual contributor: guiding architecture, raising engineering standards, and mentoring engineers while staying hands-on with coding.

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Work Experience

Staff Software Engineer at Scribenote
October 1, 2025 - October 15, 2025
Led backend engineering transformations; increased unit test coverage from 40% to 75%, strengthened tooling, and reduced tech debt. Introduced secure engineering practices, functional programming, and reusable patterns, improving developer velocity. Prototyped internal LLM evaluation pipeline and RAG pipeline for AI features, leading to a 50% cost reduction and 23% quality improvement. Delivered high-impact features such as bulk customer onboarding, secure internal endpoints, and security vulnerability remediation. Handled SRE on-call duties and ensured smooth deployments.
Staff Software Engineer at Google Canada
June 1, 2024 - October 15, 2025
Technical Lead for Fleet Actions; established team workflow quality standards and best practices. Owned and delivered data-center technologies used in Google data centers worldwide. Led two engineering teams to implement test automation and upgrade workflows across production systems. Contributed to internal studies to reduce data center equipment delivery times by over 90%.
CTO / VP of Software Engineering at Catalia Health
October 1, 2020 - October 15, 2025
Built HIPAA-compliant cloud + on-prem infrastructure using Terraform, Rancher, and Jenkins. Implemented CI/CD for both software and robotic hardware. Led internal AI/BI initiatives and product release planning, driving company growth and ensuring reliable delivery of complex software systems.
Senior Software Engineer at Forterra Systems
December 1, 2009 - October 15, 2025
Led LIVE platform development (3D simulation/training). Delivered terrain, physics, rendering, and military training system integration, building scalable architecture for immersive experiences.
Software Engineer, Applications Engineering Group at Transmeta
April 1, 2005 - October 15, 2025
Built Windows runtime monitoring tools; resolved OS/application compatibility issues for processing architectures; contributed to moving from a monolithic to a modern architecture, enabling smoother processor support and software integration.
Staff Software Engineer at Scribenote
October 1, 2025 - October 16, 2025
Drove backend quality transformation: increased unit test coverage from 40% to 75%, strengthened tooling, and reduced tech debt. Introduced secure engineering practices, functional programming, and reusable patterns that improved developer velocity. Prototyped internal LLM evaluation pipeline and RAG pipeline for production AI features, leading to a 50% cost reduction and 23% quality improvement. Delivered high-impact features: bulk customer onboarding, secure internal endpoints, and security vulnerability remediation. Handled SRE on-call duties resolving critical issues and ensuring smooth deployments.
Tech Lead for Fleet Actions at Google Canada
June 1, 2024 - October 16, 2025
Owned and delivered data centre tech infrastructure used in all Google data centres worldwide. Led two engineering teams to implement test automation and upgrade workflows across production systems worldwide. Contributed to internal studies to reduce data centre equipment delivery times by more than 90%.
Principal Software Engineer at Dark Owl
August 1, 2022 - October 16, 2025
Hired and led the Collection team responsible for all data collection systems. Designed and rolled out a serverless scraping platform replacing an unmaintainable monolith with Lambda/microservice architecture. Created new scrapers for proprietary sources, reporting progress and strategic plans directly to executive leadership.
CTO / VP of Software Engineering at Catalia Health
October 1, 2020 - October 16, 2025
Built engineering team from one to eleven engineers with near-zero turnover. Designed HIPAA-compliant cloud + on-prem infrastructure using Terraform, Rancher, and Jenkins. Implemented CI/CD for software and robotic hardware. Shipped production systems and delivered HIPAA-compliant architecture.
Senior Engineering Manager at Action.com (now Ten-X)
April 1, 2015 - October 16, 2025
Launched Bay Area engineering office; hired and led 6 web + 2 iOS engineers. Rebuilt Auction.com's platform with a modern stack (Python, Angular.js, Redis), achieving 16x faster rendering. Released live property bidding, generating millions in real estate transactions. Partnered with Data Product to ship a real-time area bidding dashboard for business intelligence.
Senior Software Engineer / Engineering Lead at Forterra Systems
December 1, 2009 - October 16, 2025
Led OLIVE platform development (3D simulation/training). Delivered training, physics, rendering, and military training systems integration.
Software Engineer, Applications Engineering Group at Transmeta
April 1, 2005 - October 16, 2025
Built Windows runtime monitoring tools; solved OS/Application compatibility issues for Crusoe/Efficeon processors.

Education

Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
September 1, 1989 - June 28, 1993

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Professional Services, Computers & Electronics