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layout resume
title Resume
display_name Kyle Boon
role Principal Software Engineer
specialties
Distributed Systems
Cloud Architecture
Technical Leadership
summary Principal Software Engineer with 20+ years of experience specializing in distributed systems, cloud architecture, and technical transformations. Proven track record of modernizing monolithic applications into scalable microservices while mentoring engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions. Expert in designing systems that balance performance, reliability, and business outcomes, from customer MDM systems supporting 800M+ users to platform modernization across enterprise-scale global operations.

Experience

Apr 2025 –
Present

RB Global

Principal Software Engineer · Remote

  • Provide technical leadership across enterprise-scale platforms, driving architecture and design decisions for large-scale, business-critical systems supporting global operations.
  • Drive technical direction across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, security, and data governance practices.
  • Partner with product, data, and business stakeholders to design systems that balance velocity, quality, and maintainability.
  • Influence platform evolution in master data management, domain modeling, and regulatory-driven system design including data residency and compliance initiatives.
  • Contribute to enterprise architecture forums and guilds, shaping shared patterns, principles, and best practices across the organization.
  • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising the bar for engineering excellence across the organization.
Jun 2022 –
Mar 2025

Wayfair

Staff Software Engineer · Remote

  • Architected and implemented B2B Project Shopping features through federated GraphQL schema design, successfully integrating order management, supply chain, and internal sales workflows.
  • Designed and delivered a scalable customer master data management system handling 800M+ global customers, improving B2B enrollment time by 95% and reducing data synchronization errors by over 99%.
  • Established domain-driven design practices to help teams properly identify bounded contexts and negotiated those boundaries across the Wayfair organization to ensure data and processes were owned by a single team.
  • Developed a RAG LLM pipeline for customer service agents that increased the number of concurrent chats an agent could handle by recommending responses to customer questions.
Apr 2017 –
Jun 2022

Target

Lead Software Engineer · Minneapolis, MN

  • Developed Target's Inventory Position and Control systems migration from the legacy mainframe to a microservices architecture built on Kafka which positioned over $100 billion worth of inventory across 1900 stores.
  • Architected and implemented the task management system as part of a greenfield warehousing management system.
  • Mentored college new hires as a part of the Target Leadership Program.
  • Interviewed college students for internship and new hire positions.
  • Served as track lead for Target's internal technology conference for two consecutive years, organizing 25+ technical sessions and personally delivering presentations on microservices architecture and distributed systems.
Mar 2015 –
Apr 2017

SmartThings

Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead · Minneapolis, MN

  • Led a cross-functional distributed team of 10 engineers across three global locations to successfully revamp the SmartThings App Marketplace.
  • Architected and implemented critical microservices during SmartThings' monolith decomposition, establishing best practices for API design and service boundaries.
  • Executed zero-downtime database migrations from MySQL to Cassandra and Aurora for high-traffic services.
Jun 2012 –
Mar 2015

Bloom Health

Technical Lead · Minneapolis, MN

  • Scaled engineering organization from 8 to 30 developers.
  • Led architectural transformation from monolith to microservices architecture, establishing patterns and practices.
  • Architected integration between core platform and external Benefits Administration PaaS, enabling Bloom Health to expand service offerings to enterprise clients.
  • Designed and implemented SSO solution across application suite using CAS and SAML, enhancing security posture while simplifying user experience.
Jun 2011 –
Jun 2012

Bloom Health

Senior Software Developer · Minneapolis, MN

  • Built financial integrations for HSA/FSA/HRA management.
  • Implemented Redis caching layer that reduced page load times by 70% and improved system resilience during traffic spikes.
Jul 2006 –
Jun 2011

IBM

IT Specialist · Minneapolis, MN

  • Led development of healthcare data visualization platform for Georgia residents, delivering MVP in under 3 months using Ruby on Rails and Google Maps.
  • Awarded US Patent #7406689 – "Jobstream Planner Considering Network Contention and Resource Availability."
Mar 2005 –
Jun 2006

What If Sports

Software Developer · Cincinnati, OH

  • Developed company's highest-grossing product (HardBallDynasty), generating $20,000 in first-day sales.
  • Implemented quality engineering practices including automated testing and defect tracking systems.

Skills

Languages
Kotlin, Java, Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL
<div class="resume-skill-label">Frameworks &amp; APIs</div>
<div class="resume-skill-values">Spring Boot, Http4k, Hibernate, GraphQL, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, REST</div>

<div class="resume-skill-label">AI / ML</div>
<div class="resume-skill-values">RAG pipelines, LLM integration, OpenAI API, Anthropic API</div>

<div class="resume-skill-label">Infrastructure</div>
<div class="resume-skill-values">AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Snowflake</div>

<div class="resume-skill-label">CI/CD &amp; Observability</div>
<div class="resume-skill-values">GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Gradle, Maven, Git, Datadog, Grafana, ELK</div>

<div class="resume-skill-label">Leadership</div>
<div class="resume-skill-values">Technical Mentorship, Distributed Team Leadership, Cross-functional Collaboration, Strategic Technical Planning, System Design &amp; Architecture Review, Technical Debt Management, Legacy System Modernization</div>

Education

Mar 2005

The Ohio State University

B.S. Computer Science & Engineering · Columbus, OH