● available for backend + infra contracts
Rae Calder builds the boring parts that keep small products up.
$ whoami
backend · infra · data pipelines
$ location
Toronto, remote-friendly
$ now
migrating a queue off cron
backend · infra · data pipelines
$ location
Toronto, remote-friendly
$ now
migrating a queue off cron
## projects
ledgerlinesource →
Double-entry bookkeeping API for a two-person accounting firm.GoPostgresFly.io
pantrysyncsource →
Inventory sync between a food bank’s three sites, offline-first.TypeScriptSQLiteWorkers
shiftbellsource →
SMS shift reminders for a clinic, with opt-out handling.PythonTwilioAWS Lambda
tilecachesource →
A tiny map tile cache in front of a slow municipal server.RustRedis
## stack
LanguagesGo · Python · TypeScript · Rust
DataPostgres · SQLite · Redis
InfraAWS · Fly.io · Terraform · Docker
PracticeTests first, boring deploys, written runbooks
About
About Rae
Rae spent eight years on infrastructure teams before going independent.
Most clients are two-to-ten-person teams that need one senior engineer for a quarter.
Experience
8+ years
Time zone
Eastern
Availability
From November
Good to know
Questions people ask
Do you work hourly?−
Weekly or per project.
Do you do frontend?+
Do you sign NDAs?+
On-call?+
● available for backend + infra contracts
Rae Calder builds the boring parts that keep small products up.
$ whoami
backend · infra · data pipelines
$ location
Toronto, remote-friendly
$ now
migrating a queue off cron
backend · infra · data pipelines
$ location
Toronto, remote-friendly
$ now
migrating a queue off cron
## projects
ledgerlinesource →
Double-entry bookkeeping API for a two-person accounting firm.GoPostgresFly.io
pantrysyncsource →
Inventory sync between a food bank’s three sites, offline-first.TypeScriptSQLiteWorkers
shiftbellsource →
SMS shift reminders for a clinic, with opt-out handling.PythonTwilioAWS Lambda
tilecachesource →
A tiny map tile cache in front of a slow municipal server.RustRedis
## stack
LanguagesGo · Python · TypeScript · Rust
DataPostgres · SQLite · Redis
InfraAWS · Fly.io · Terraform · Docker
PracticeTests first, boring deploys, written runbooks
About
About Rae
Rae spent eight years on infrastructure teams before going independent.
Most clients are two-to-ten-person teams that need one senior engineer for a quarter.
Experience
8+ years
Time zone
Eastern
Availability
From November
Good to know
Questions people ask
Do you work hourly?−
Weekly or per project.
Do you do frontend?+
Do you sign NDAs?+
On-call?+