jeffgoyette.com

Résumé

Jeff Goyette

Cofounder and CTO at Reel Estate, an AI platform for real estate. Twelve years building production systems in regulated environments — federal agencies, banking, telecom, and AI SaaS.

jeff@jeffgoyette.com

Career trace

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12
years, first role to now
11
roles
5
industries
  1. FCCFCCJ2EE DeveloperMar 2014 – Sep 2014 · 6mo
  2. USCISUSCISJ2EE DeveloperSep 2014 – Dec 2014 · 3mo
  3. RevatureRevatureTraining and Technology SpecialistJ2EE technology specialist and instructorDec 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1y 6mo
  4. USAAUSAASoftware DeveloperJun 2016 – Feb 2017 · 8mo
  5. Hyla MobileHyla MobileSoftware EngineerFeb 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1y 1mo
  6. AllstateAllstateSr. Fullstack Software DeveloperRoadside ServicesJun 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1y
  7. CognizantCognizantPrincipal Engineer Full StackPod architect on the Lowe's digital podJun 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1y 7mo
  8. FinzlyFinzlySenior Software EngineerTechnical manager, DevOps · Professional ServicesJan 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1y 5mo
  9. IndependentIndependentSelf-directed engineeringJun 2022 – Dec 2022 · 6mo
  10. YtelYtelSenior Software EngineerCloud communications · acquired by SharpenDec 2022 – Present · 3y 8mo
  11. Reel EstateReel EstateCofounder & Chief Technology OfficerFounding technical partner, alongside the Ytel roleMar 2026 – Present · 5mo

History

Titles and dates reconciled against LinkedIn

  1. Mar 2026 – Present

    Cofounder & Chief Technology Officer

    Reel Estate · Remote

    Founding technical partner, alongside the Ytel role

    • Own the full technical roadmap for a Next.js, Vercel, and MongoDB platform serving dozens of agents across firms including Compass, eXp Realty, and Dave Perry-Miller.
    • Architected the generative pipeline — image staging feeding Runway Gen-4 image-to-video generation, with queue-based job orchestration, S3 asset storage, and webhook-driven status callbacks.
    • Designed and shipped an AI and MLS compliance subsystem covering California AB 723 and SB 942, the NAR Code of Ethics, and C2PA provenance, with per-image watermarking, QR-linked original preservation, listing-state-aware export gates, and server-side attestation logging.
    • Built credit-based billing on MongoDB using atomic operations with guard clauses, so concurrent generation requests cannot double-spend a credit — and modelled tier economics against per-clip generation cost.
    • Manage production DNS and infrastructure across AWS Route 53 and Vercel, including the deploy pipeline, environment separation, and asset delivery.
    • Stood up the acquisition stack end to end — GA4 and Tag Manager event taxonomy, Enhanced Conversions with hashed email, UTM attribution, and a four-ad-group Google Ads architecture.
    • Built a custom MCP server for Reel Estate and integrated Atlassian, YouTrack, and GA4 servers into the workflow, so agentic tasks carry ticket, spec, and live product analytics context from pickup through deploy.
    • Authored a library of custom Claude skills encoding house style, MLS compliance rules, and Next.js scaffolding patterns, so AI-assisted contributions land idiomatically.
    Systems and stack

    • Generative staging and listing video

      The product itself — image staging feeding Runway Gen-4 image-to-video, behind queue-based job orchestration, S3 asset storage, and webhook-driven status callbacks, so the front end never waits on a model.

    • AI provenance and compliance subsystem

      The layer that determines whether a brokerage can adopt the product at all: California AB 723 and SB 942, the NAR Code of Ethics, and C2PA provenance, enforced in the system rather than in an agent's memory.

    • TypeScript
    • Next.js
    • React
    • Node.js
    • MongoDB
    • Vercel
    • AWS S3
    • AWS Route 53
    • Runway Gen-4
    • Replicate
    • C2PA
    • Anthropic API
    • Claude Code
    • GA4

  2. Dec 2022 – Present

    Senior Software Engineer

    Ytel · Remote

    Cloud communications · acquired by Sharpen

    • Built the outbound dialing platform behind Ytel's AI voice agents, sustaining roughly 10 call initiations per second with scaling headroom to 50, against a 700ms time-to-first-audio budget.
    • Cut customer operating cost by roughly $15,000 a month by making an AI agent the endpoint of an outbound campaign instead of a bolt-on to a human one.
    • Automated TCPA compliance inside the AI call path — sentiment-driven DNC opt-out that removes a lead on any negative interaction, and calling-window enforcement resolved from the submitted lead state with phone-number fallback.
    • Prototyped the next-generation voice stack on LiveKit SIP and LiveKit Agents in Python, targeting sub-500ms turn latency and substantially higher concurrency than the Retell-based platform.
    • Designed and shipped a Lua and FreeSWITCH IVR solution that measurably improved call routing and DTMF handling.
    • Replaced a brittle billing batch job with a streaming reporting microservice on Spring Boot, Spring Async, and Kafka.
    • Rebuilt the DNC and LRN file importer on Spring Reactive, Apache Camel, and SFTP, and tuned telephony event storage on Cassandra for write throughput.
    • Led the React 16 to React 18 migration, modernizing the dependency graph and closing out known advisories.
    • Mentored mid- and junior-level engineers, ran code reviews, and pushed testing standards across the team.
    Systems and stack

    • AI voice agent dialing platform

      The outbound telephony layer underneath Ytel's AI voice agents. Java WebFlux on Google Cloud Run with Firestore, Retell AI handling the conversational turn, and qualification-based warm transfer to a live agent when the call earns it.

    • Billing and telephony data pipeline

      The reporting and import path around the platform — a streaming billing service replacing a nightly batch, and the DNC and LRN file importers that feed compliance decisions.

    • Java
    • Spring Boot
    • Spring WebFlux
    • Spring Async
    • Python
    • Lua
    • React
    • Kafka
    • Apache Camel
    • Cassandra
    • Firestore
    • Google Cloud Run
    • FreeSWITCH
    • Retell AI
    • LiveKit
    • SFTP

  3. Jun 2022 – Dec 2022

    Self-directed engineering

    Independent · Remote

    • Redesigned a file-ingestion system around AWS Step Functions and Glue to orchestrate encryption, decryption, and processing, improving both throughput and observability.
    • Built an AWS RDS user-management platform for MySQL 8 that unified user creation and authenticated through Azure AD.
    • Built a React and Tailwind streaming audio player on Material Design with a responsive, accessible UI.
    • Learned Unity from scratch — evaluating asset libraries, integrating the ORK framework, and driving character animation through Mecanim — and wrote up the world and feature design first.
    • Studied data structures and algorithms in depth, and wrote articles on RDBMS, React, and AWS to consolidate what the previous role had left unfinished.
    Systems and stack

    • Guard Duty Simulator

      A Unity game putting the player in the role of the guard of a small town, with quest lines, faction sympathies, and branching dialogue planned. Learned Unity from nothing to build it.

    • Published articles

      A run of written pieces on RDBMS, React, and AWS — written to properly settle solutions to problems encountered in the previous role rather than leaving them half-understood.

    • Java
    • Spring Data
    • React
    • Tailwind
    • AWS Step Functions
    • AWS Glue
    • AWS RDS
    • MySQL
    • Azure AD
    • Docker
    • Unity
    • C#

  4. Jan 2021 – Jun 2022

    Senior Software Engineer

    Finzly · Charlotte, NC

    Technical manager, DevOps · Professional Services

    • Led the on-premises Federal Reserve connection setup in a customer data center as primary technical contact, hardening transaction reliability for downstream banking clients.
    • Managed the DevOps team and owned deployments across every client environment, running certificate and key lifecycle management for the mTLS and PGP integrations.
    • Architected an event-driven file encryption and decryption service on AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and Glue, replacing a manual long-running process someone had to remember to start.
    • Implemented mTLS-secured API integrations with core banking providers for sensitive payment data exchange.
    • Overhauled security and compliance practice through Log4j2 remediation and SOC 2 readiness, and ran the disaster recovery exercises that became standard onboarding evidence for new clients.
    • Led the Professional Services integrations team building connections into customer banking cores, and introduced integration testing with MongoDB and Spring Test.
    • Migrated the company from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365, materially improving audit posture.
    Systems and stack

    • FX Star

      A foreign exchange platform letting back-office bank staff make and approve currency exchanges on behalf of their customers.

    • Payment Galaxy

      A domestic payments platform providing a core banking ecosystem designed to integrate with whatever core a bank already ran.

    • Java
    • Spring Boot
    • Spring Data
    • Spring Cloud
    • AWS Lambda
    • AWS Step Functions
    • AWS Glue
    • Terraform
    • PGPainless
    • mTLS
    • MongoDB
    • MySQL
    • Jenkins
    • Linux

  5. Jun 2019 – Jan 2021

    Principal Engineer Full Stack

    Cognizant · Charlotte, NC

    Pod architect on the Lowe's digital pod

    • Designed and shipped a Google Cloud application suite giving Lowe's Pro business customers exportable purchase history — a capability the client had never offered.
    • Led a team of six developers from stakeholder discovery through delivery, partnering directly with product managers and business stakeholders.
    • Routed front-end traffic through Cloud Pub/Sub for asynchronous request handling and back-pressure tolerance, so a slow export could not hold a web thread.
    • Re-platformed the order-history store behind a circuit-breaker pattern in time for Black Friday peak load.
    • Eliminated a critical IBM WebSphere Commerce dependency, generating recurring licensing savings that outlasted the project.
    • Containerized on GKE with Istio RBAC and VirtualServices, and ran internal lunch-and-learn sessions to bring the team up on the setup rather than owning it alone.
    • Acted as front-end lead on the internal governance application — React and Material-UI, reusable components, Context API for shared state instead of Redux, covered with Jest, Enzyme, React Testing Library, and Codecept.
    Systems and stack

    • Exportable and online purchase history

      A new application suite letting Lowe's Pro customers — businesses, with organisation metadata behind them — export purchase history for a date range to CSV. The capability had never existed, and the online history piece had to move onto a new enterprise order management system at the same time.

    • Maturity Governance Application

      An internal tool that tracked and measured a delivery pod's progress toward a mature delivery model, so a team could see at a glance which practices they were running and which they were not.

    • Java
    • Spring Boot
    • Spring Cloud GCP
    • Spring Data
    • Hibernate
    • React
    • Material-UI
    • GKE
    • Istio
    • Cloud Pub/Sub
    • Cloud Storage
    • Postgres
    • WireMock
    • JUnit 5
    • Mockito
    • Feign
    • Docker
    • Maven

  6. Jun 2018 – Jun 2019

    Sr. Fullstack Software Developer

    Allstate · Charlotte, NC

    Roadside Services

    • Built the Allstate Motor Club self-service account management application, replacing a legacy JSF system and reducing inbound call volume.
    • Reworked authentication and authorization onto the enterprise Tivoli Access Manager standard with Spring Security and JWT.
    • Recovered access to the Pronet database after the master password had been lost, then dumped, restored, and exported the production data for the Oracle DBA team to consume.
    • Worked in XP — pair programming and test-driven development — with Jest, Enzyme, and Codecept/Puppeteer end-to-end coverage.
    • Cut reliance on stored procedures and worked SonarQube findings down to shorten development cycles.
    • Built CSR-facing member search on Spring Data's query-by-example API rather than a hand-written predicate tree.
    Systems and stack

    • Allstate Motor Club account management

      A self-service application built to take load off the call centre, letting Motor Club members manage their profile, make payments, and add or remove members. It replaced an ageing JSF application.

    • Pronet data transfer

      A vendor-bought legacy system holding group insurance data for small businesses. Slated for retirement, but still earning — so the data had to move from Sybase ASE to Oracle before the server could go. The master database password had been lost years earlier.

    • Java
    • Spring Boot
    • Spring Data
    • Spring Security
    • Spring Cloud
    • Zuul
    • React
    • Jest
    • Enzyme
    • Puppeteer
    • Oracle
    • Sybase ASE
    • Pivotal Cloud Foundry
    • Jenkins
    • SonarQube
    • Gradle

  7. Feb 2017 – Mar 2018

    Software Engineer

    Hyla Mobile · Dallas/Fort Worth, TX

    • Broke a legacy phone trade-in platform into Spring Cloud microservices so it could scale and survive partial outages.
    • Designed and implemented a decentralized batch scheduling system with Quartz, Spring, and QuartzDesk.
    • Migrated distributed caching from ehcache with JGroups to Redis, and moved reliable messaging onto RabbitMQ.
    • Designed and built the AWS infrastructure for distributed batch processing — VPC subnets, load balancers, RDS, and autoscaling groups, all provisioned through CloudFormation.
    • Implemented a microservices proof of concept on Docker Swarm and Spring Cloud in AWS, then took the same workloads onto Kubernetes.
    • Owned pricing and device-value business logic with minimal specification, working the requirements out with the business directly.
    Systems and stack

    • Carrier Exchange

      The suite that let Hyla partner with carriers and retailers to run phone trade-ins — looking up, quoting, and trading customer devices. A legacy monolith being broken up so it could scale and survive partial outages.

    • Java
    • Spring Boot
    • Spring Cloud
    • Spring Data
    • Hibernate
    • Quartz
    • RabbitMQ
    • Redis
    • ehcache
    • JGroups
    • Postgres
    • Liquibase
    • AWS
    • CloudFormation
    • Docker Swarm
    • Kubernetes
    • Gradle

  8. Jun 2016 – Feb 2017

    Software Developer

    USAA · Plano, TX

    • Worked on Money Movement, the platform handling payments, transfers, returns processing, and real-time transaction posting across USAA lines of business.
    • Built integrated tests for the core platform with JUnitEE, and a utility that generated return files rather than having someone assemble them manually.
    • Designed, deployed, and monitored batch processing jobs with Control-M against WebSphere 7.
    • Wrote KornShell and awk validation routines for returns files, and handled persistence through JDBC prepared statements and OpenJPA over DB2.
    • Learned the financial-services domain from the business side first — the constraint on this kind of system is almost never the code.
    Systems and stack

    • Money Movement (IMM)

      The system that moved money between disparate platforms at USAA. Multiple lines of business used it to add, modify, and cancel payments, run returns processing, transfer funds between accounts, and post transactions in real time.

    • Testing Utilities

      A utility that hooked into the existing systems to generate return files and perform setup that previously had to be done by hand for every test run.

    • Java
    • J2EE
    • DB2
    • WebSphere
    • OpenJPA
    • Control-M
    • KornShell
    • awk
    • JUnitEE
    • Spring Boot
    • Spring Data JPA
    • Hibernate
    • Rational Team Concert

  9. Dec 2014 – Jun 2016

    Training and Technology Specialist

    Revature · Reston, VA

    J2EE technology specialist and instructor

    • Taught design patterns, Core Java, JSP, Servlets, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, and web services across an eighteen-month run of cohorts.
    • Gated placement on delivered work rather than coursework — associates had to complete real projects, in teams, before being considered for employment.
    • Coached the part that is harder to teach than syntax: working and communicating inside a team.
    • Built the mentoring and code review habit that has carried into every role since.
    Systems and stack

    • Workforce Development Program

      A programme that took college graduates and career-changing industry veterans and brought them to employable competence. Every associate had to ship multiple industry-level projects before being put forward for a role.

    • Java
    • J2EE
    • Spring
    • Hibernate
    • Jersey
    • SOAP
    • REST
    • Oracle
    • Postgres
    • WebLogic
    • Tomcat
    • Jenkins
    • OpenShift
    • Maven
    • Gradle
    • Git

  10. Sep 2014 – Dec 2014

    J2EE Developer

    USCIS · Washington, DC

    • Built online immigrant visa fee payment into ELIS, integrating against several upstream government systems rather than standing alone.
    • Worked across Spring MVC, AngularJS, Hibernate, and ActiveMQ, with a feature-toggle framework gating releases into a live federal system.
    • Covered the flow with Selenium, Geb, and Spock, and managed schema migration with Liquibase.
    Systems and stack

    • ELIS — immigrant visa fee payment

      Part of the wider ELIS system. Gave immigrants a way to register, find their fee, and pay it online, taking paper processing out of the flow entirely.

    • Java
    • Spring MVC
    • AngularJS
    • Hibernate
    • JPA
    • ActiveMQ
    • REST
    • Liquibase
    • MongoDB
    • Oracle
    • Tomcat
    • Selenium
    • Spock
    • Chef

  11. Mar 2014 – Sep 2014

    J2EE Developer

    FCC · Washington, DC

    • Built geographic validation for spectrum license applications, checking submitted coordinate points and mapping files (GeoJSON, shapefile) against the licensed boundaries already in the database.
    • Modelled the spatial comparison with Hibernate Spatial, the Java Topology Suite, and PostGIS rather than hand-rolled coordinate maths.
    • Integrated the new validation into the existing application's workflow instead of replacing it — the legacy system could not be rebuilt, but the data problem was compounding every month it went unaddressed.
    Systems and stack

    • Assignment of Authorization and Transfer of Control

      The workflow the FCC used to validate spectrum license applications. Bad geographic data was getting applications rejected — and, in the worst cases, accepted and consummated into licenses that should not have existed.

    • Java
    • Spring
    • Hibernate
    • Hibernate Spatial
    • Java Topology Suite
    • PostGIS
    • Jersey
    • WebLogic
    • Sybase ASE
    • Postgres
    • Maven

Technology ledger

Derived from the role history, not typed separately

107 technologies named across 11 roles, counted from the résumé rather than recalled. The oldest entry dates to 2014; the most widely carried is Java, in 10 of them.

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  • Java201410 roles
  • Hibernate20146 roles
  • Spring Boot20166 roles
  • Spring Data20175 roles
  • React20185 roles
  • Postgres20144 roles
  • Gradle20143 roles
  • Jenkins20143 roles
  • Maven20143 roles
  • MongoDB20143 roles
  • Oracle20143 roles
  • Spring Cloud20173 roles
  • J2EE20142 roles
  • Jersey20142 roles
  • Liquibase20142 roles
  • REST20142 roles
  • Spring20142 roles
  • Sybase ASE20142 roles
  • Tomcat20142 roles
  • WebLogic20142 roles
  • Docker20192 roles
  • AWS Glue20212 roles
  • AWS Step Functions20212 roles
  • MySQL20212 roles
  • ActiveMQ20141 role
  • AngularJS20141 role
  • Chef20141 role
  • Git20141 role
  • Hibernate Spatial20141 role
  • Java Topology Suite20141 role
  • JPA20141 role
  • OpenShift20141 role
  • PostGIS20141 role
  • Selenium20141 role
  • SOAP20141 role
  • Spock20141 role
  • Spring MVC20141 role
  • awk20161 role
  • Control-M20161 role
  • DB220161 role
  • JUnitEE20161 role
  • KornShell20161 role
  • OpenJPA20161 role
  • Rational Team Concert20161 role
  • Spring Data JPA20161 role
  • WebSphere20161 role
  • AWS20171 role
  • CloudFormation20171 role
  • Docker Swarm20171 role
  • ehcache20171 role
  • JGroups20171 role
  • Kubernetes20171 role
  • Quartz20171 role
  • RabbitMQ20171 role
  • Redis20171 role
  • Enzyme20181 role
  • Jest20181 role
  • Pivotal Cloud Foundry20181 role
  • Puppeteer20181 role
  • SonarQube20181 role
  • Spring Security20181 role
  • Zuul20181 role
  • Cloud Pub/Sub20191 role
  • Cloud Storage20191 role
  • Feign20191 role
  • GKE20191 role
  • Istio20191 role
  • JUnit 520191 role
  • Material-UI20191 role
  • Mockito20191 role
  • Spring Cloud GCP20191 role
  • WireMock20191 role
  • AWS Lambda20211 role
  • Linux20211 role
  • mTLS20211 role
  • PGPainless20211 role
  • Terraform20211 role
  • Apache Camel20221 role
  • AWS RDS20221 role
  • Azure AD20221 role
  • C#20221 role
  • Cassandra20221 role
  • Firestore20221 role
  • FreeSWITCH20221 role
  • Google Cloud Run20221 role
  • Kafka20221 role
  • LiveKit20221 role
  • Lua20221 role
  • Python20221 role
  • Retell AI20221 role
  • SFTP20221 role
  • Spring Async20221 role
  • Spring WebFlux20221 role
  • Tailwind20221 role
  • Unity20221 role
  • Anthropic API20261 role
  • AWS Route 5320261 role
  • AWS S320261 role
  • C2PA20261 role
  • Claude Code20261 role
  • GA420261 role
  • Next.js20261 role
  • Node.js20261 role
  • Replicate20261 role
  • Runway Gen-420261 role
  • TypeScript20261 role
  • Vercel20261 role

Skills

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  • AI engineering

    Agentic tooling, built and operated rather than evaluated.

    • Claude Code
    • Anthropic API
    • Custom skill authoring
    • Custom MCP servers
    • MCP integration
    • Agentic workflows
    • Prompt engineering

  • Generative pipelines

    Model calls are slow, expensive, and fail oddly. None of it runs inline.

    • Runway Gen-4
    • Image staging models
    • Image-to-video
    • Replicate
    • Retell AI
    • LiveKit (SIP and Agents)
    • Queue-based orchestration

  • Compliance and security

    The gate is legal review, not the demo.

    • C2PA provenance
    • California AB 723 / SB 942
    • TCPA
    • SOC 2 readiness
    • mTLS
    • PGP
    • Certificate and key lifecycle
    • Log4j2 remediation
    • Disaster recovery

  • Languages

    Java first, TypeScript daily, the rest where they fit.

    • Java
    • TypeScript
    • JavaScript
    • Python
    • Lua
    • C#
    • SQL
    • CQL

  • Frameworks

    Twelve years of Spring, and the front end that sits on top of it.

    • Spring Boot
    • Spring WebFlux
    • Spring Cloud
    • Spring Data
    • JPA / Hibernate
    • React
    • Next.js
    • Node.js

  • Infrastructure

    From Istio routing down through VPC design.

    • Terraform
    • CloudFormation
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes (GKE)
    • Istio
    • CI/CD
    • VPC and network design
    • Autoscaling

  • Cloud

    Three providers, each with production behind it.

    • AWS — Lambda, Step Functions, Glue
    • AWS — S3, RDS, Route 53, ELB
    • GCP — GKE, Pub/Sub
    • GCP — Cloud Run, Firestore
    • Vercel

  • Data and messaging

    Chosen for the write pattern, not the résumé line.

    • Cassandra
    • MongoDB
    • Postgres
    • Kafka
    • RabbitMQ
    • Apache Camel
    • Redis
    • Spring Reactive

  • Testing

    The habit that came out of teaching it for eighteen months.

    • JUnit 5
    • Mockito
    • Spring Test
    • WireMock
    • Jest
    • Playwright

  • Growth and analytics

    Which ad group produced a paying customer, not which produced clicks.

    • GA4
    • Google Tag Manager
    • Google Ads
    • Enhanced Conversions
    • UTM attribution

  • Practice

    How the work gets done when someone else has to maintain it.

    • Test-driven development
    • Extreme programming
    • Pair programming
    • Code review
    • Mentoring

Credentials

Education
B.S. Software and Information SystemsUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte
Certification
Professional Cloud ArchitectlapsedGoogle Cloud
Certification
Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)Microsoft