Glen R. Goodwin Laurel, Maryland arei@usa.com (571) 331-8645 https://arei.net KEY DIFFERENTIATORS • 40+ Year Veteran of Software Engineering. • 15+ Years of JavaScript/TypeScript experience. • Expert in Web Frameworks including Vanilla, Web Components, Ember, Angular, SolidJS, React. • Expert in NodeJS and related technology. • Architected and Engineered Cloud Solutions in AWS and GCP. • Led Teams from 2 to 20 people. • Passionate Open-Source author and contributor. • Local Tech Community organizer and mentor. EXPERIENCE Staff Software Engineer | FlagshipRTL ltd. June 2025 to May 2026 | New York City, New York • Served as Staff Software Engineer for FlagshipRTL, a pre-series A startup venture that enable e-commerce partners to predict buying and selling needs. • Worked on a variety of projects up and down the technical stack from front to backend to DevOps to infrastructure. • Championed engineering best practices including organized code structure, repeatable testing, and highly readable code. • Championed, designed, and built a scalable distributed task engine using React, NodeJS, Prostgres, REDIS, and AWS ECS. Staff Software Engineer | Openexus inc. February 2024 to May 2025 | Oakland, California • Led engineering efforts for an early-stage startup enabling them to deliver initial prototype and beyond. • Implemented scalable solution built on NodeJS, SolidJS, Prostgres, and AWS. Chief Architect / Lead Engineer | ReturnLogic inc. June 2022 to July 2023 | Camp Hill, Pennsylvania • Architected plan to move ReturnLogic’s static AWS EC2 infrastructure to a dynamic EventBridge driven ECS/Fargate based multi-region, multi-tenancy cloud architecture. • Mentored entire team and individual developers in communication, architecture, engineering best practices, and software quality. • Led day to day operations of small platform focused team to deliver platform level systems to make the entire code base more standard, secure, stable, and consistent. • Championed systems such as unified logging and configuration, common architecture and systems, and enforcement of code and testing standards. Director of Software Engineering | Whitebox Technology August 2019 to May 2022 | Baltimore, Maryland • Led day to day operations of entire Engineering Directorate including growing team from 5 engineers to 20 engineers. • Designed and implemented entire Engineering Department’s communication, process, and company culture of software excellence. • Served as Lead Engineer for Systems Team, responsible for implementing innovative systems to deliver faster, more efficiently, and at scale. • Served as Lead Experience Engineer fostering and implementing consistent cross product common solutions to better enhance the company brand and the end-user experience. Founder | The Awesome Engineering Company inc. July 2018 to August 2019 | Laurel, Maryland • Founded The Awesome Engineering Company to productize personally developed open-source solutions. Distinguished Software Engineer & Chief Architect for CyberSecurity | SAS Institute October 2008 to July 2018 | Ellicott City, Maryland • Acted as Lead Researcher for new implementations and technology experiments advising senior management on feasibility and direction • Designed and implemented backend and frontend technologies for the entire product from conception to delivery in multiple languages/frameworks. • Advised on all aspects of the product including deployment, installation, operations, scaling, testing and documentation. User Experience Technologist | DDK Technology Group November 2006 to October 2008 | Chantilly, Virginia • Designed and implemented cutting edge User Interfaces in support of federal government technology efforts. • Served as mentor in Web Technology Concepts, REST Methodologies, JavaScript, and Cross browser integration efforts. Software Engineer IV | Mcdonald Bradley | Matrixx Group November 2005 to November 2006 | Herndon, Virginia Principal Software Engineer | General Dynamics | Ajilon Consulting October 2001 to October 2005 | Arlington, Virginia Senior Product Engineer | Starbase Corporation November 1999 to October 2001 | Alexandria, Virginia Build & Release Engineer | Concept Five Technologies March 1999 to November 1999 | Burlington, Massachusetts Computer Services Coordinator/Developer | Northeastern University School of Law September 1993 to March 1999 | Boston, Massachusetts Computer Programmer & Audio/Visual Technician | Masconomet Regional School District September 1985 to June 1987 | Boxford, Massachusetts EDUCATION George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia Candidate for Bachelor of Individualized Studies in Human Computer Interaction GPA 3.73 / 4.00 Northeastern University | Boston, Massachusetts Candidate for Bachelor of Science Degree in English Literature with minors in Computer Science and Education. GPA 3.40 / 4.00 COMPUTER SKILLS Web Development TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Tailwind, Browser Normalization, async/await, Modules, Workers Web Frameworks React, SolidJS, Ember, Angular, Web Components, JQuery, PrototypeJS Web Protocols HTTP/HTTPS, REST, AJAX, JSON, XML, XSLT, XSS Node Technology NodeJS, NPM, Express, Fastify, Pino, Winston, Clustering, Child Processes, Workers, Threads, Proxy, Reflect, Annotations, Modules Testing Frameworks Jest, VITest, TAP, Mocha, Chia, Playwright Java Technology Java, Groovy, Java Swing, Abstract Windowing Toolkit, Java 2D, Grails, Java Servlets, JSP, JDBC, Java Messaging, RMI, Sockets, Multi-threading, Java WebStart Amazon Cloud Technology Copilot, RDS, Aurora, EC2, ECS, Fargate, MQ, Lambda, S3, SQS, EventBridge Google Cloud Google Cloud Functions, PubSub, Compute Engine, Serverless framework Other Programming C#, SQL, Perl, Access, Pascal, C, C++, CORBA, BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, Assembly, Unix Shell Scripting, DOS Batch Scripting Data Storage Postgres, MariaDB, ElasticSearch, Logstash, REDIS, MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft Access, SQL, ODBC Development Tools VSCode, Github CoPilot, Atom, Eclipse IDE, Microsoft InstallShield, Git, CVS, WinCvs, Subversion Theoretical & Strategical Web Technology, Ajax Methodology, Object-Oriented Design, Object-Oriented Programming, Compiler Design, Network Planning, Infrastructure Strategy, Operating System Design Operating Systems Microsoft Windows, UNIX/Linix, VAX/VMS, Apple Macintosh, WSL2 Networking TCP/IP, DNS, Windows Networking, Banyan VINES, IPX, Ethernet Hardware PC Compatible, Macintosh, Switches, Routers, Bridges, Cabling COMMUNITY Standards • Initiated the FocusTraversal API proposal – currently being incubated by the W3C for inclusion in the W3C HTML Standard. https://github.com/awesomeeng/FocusTraversalAPI Open Source • ZephJS – Framework for authoring Web Components https://github.com/awesomeeng/zephjs • AwesomeLog, AwesomeConfig, AwesomeSever – NodeJS server libraries. https://github.com/awesomeeng • npmbox – CLI Utility for packaging NPM packages for offline deployment https://github.com/arei/npmbox • node-untappd, functionary, threadful, licenses-extractor https://github.com/arei Speaker • Advancing Focus JSConf US 2019 https://github.com/arei/talks/blob/master/AdvancingFocus/details.md • The Morality of Code NodeInteractive North America (November 2016) https://github.com/arei/talks/blob/master/MoralityOfCode/details.md • We Are Hacks and Have Been Stealing Code for Years JSConf Last Call (December 2015) with Todd Gandee https://github.com/arei/talks/blob/master/CreativeBorrowing/details.md • Writing Code for Other People CharmCityJS • Introducing ZephJS CharmCityJS https://github.com/arei/talks/blob/master/IntroZephJS/details.md • Building Awesome - Introducing AwesomeServer, AwesomeConfig, AwesomeLog CharmCityJS https://github.com/arei/talks/blob/master/BuildingAwesome/details.md • Why are you Awaiting to use Async? CharmCityJS https://github.com/arei/talks/blob/master/AwaitingAsync/details.md Outreach • CharmCityJS Organizer (2019 to Present) https://charmcityjs.org • Node Web Server Frameworks Working Group (2020 to 2024) https://github.com/nodejs/web-server-frameworks • NodeSchool Baltimore Organizer (2015 to 2017) https://nodeschool.io/baltimore CODE AND DESIGN EXAMPLES Source code available on GitHub at https://github.com/arei and https://github.com//awesomeeng.