Tripp Horbinski

Purveyor of fine software

By the numbers

I’m a software engineer. I spent six years in cloud and DevOps learning how software ships, from commit to production, at Northwestern Mutual, Veda, Cardless and GoFundMe. In 2025 I moved to building the product itself, full stack. I want to keep delivering products people use every day.

The projects behind these numbers, and where I've worked

On my own time

Things I've built because I love building them.

Website · 2026

tripp.horbin.ski

The site you’re on. The meadow is generated, not drawn: USGS lidar lit by the sun’s real position for any hour, every tree where aerial imagery shows canopy, and the figures of me screen-printed from my photos.

Claude Code · Next.js · TypeScript · Canvas · Node · Swift · USGS 3DEP · OpenStreetMap

Source on GitHub →

Android app · 2026

Esker

Tracks your progress along Wisconsin’s 1,200-mile Ice Age Trail: browse it on a map, mark the segments you’ve hiked, see how far you’ve come. Built in a week; in internal testing on Google Play.

Expo · React Native · TypeScript · Google Maps · SQLite · EAS

Web and mobile app · 2026

puppe.rs

Field guides for whoever’s watching your pets: owners fill in their pets, routine, commands and contacts, then share one link with the sitter.

Next.js · Expo · TypeScript · Drizzle · Turso · Bun

Visit puppe.rs →

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Off the keyboard I run marathons and backpack: in August 2025 I walked the Arctic Circle Trail, 167 km across Greenland. My long trail at home is the Ice Age Trail, and I'm a dog dad to two puppers.

Tripp Horbinski

Software Engineer · Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Software engineer with 8 years of experience. Six years in cloud and DevOps, owning how software ships from commit to production; since 2025, a full-stack engineer building GoFundMe Pro in TypeScript, Next.js, Laravel and AWS. AWS Certified Golden Jacket recipient.

Experience

GoFundMe, Senior Software EngineerApr 2023 – Oct 2026 · Remote

Full stack, GoFundMe ProJan 2025 – Oct 2026

  • Technical lead for four product areas in moving GoFundMe Pro from classy.org to pro.gofundme.com (Nov 2025 – Mar 2026), brought on by a senior staff engineer as the platform’s subject-matter expert: Campaign Studio and the rendering engine for new campaigns, the live events platform, the Pro Services backend that call centers use on behalf of enterprise nonprofits, and the developer documentation site. The move touched 27 repositories and used a dual-domain setup on Cloudflare, CloudFront, Route53, ECS and Lambda for flag-driven rollout and safe rollback; it shipped with zero downtime for enterprise organizations, under millions of daily transactions.
  • Led the redesign of the annual summary receipts, about 2 million generated each January: moved them from a Lambda workload that timed out and retried into an ECS Fargate task on the primary API, won buy-in from the architecture decision makers, and added what wasn’t possible before: receipts on demand, requested by donors or sent by nonprofit admins on their behalf, and year-to-date summaries. The January 2026 run had no issues or incidents.
  • Built reporting, data and onboarding features in the admin nonprofit administrators use to run their fundraising.
  • On Post-Donate, worked on everything a donor sees after giving: the thank-you page, transactional emails, and the start of share attribution.
  • Used Claude across the development lifecycle: PRDs and documentation, ramping up in new repositories and their patterns, scoping work, keeping QA visible against the definition of done, and finding high-impact improvements.

Cloud and platformApr 2023 – Dec 2024

  • Built reusable GitHub Actions workflows and self-hosted runners that moved GoFundMe Pro off Bitbucket and AWS CodePipeline, across 8 engineering teams.
  • Led the migration of a sharded MongoDB cluster from self-managed EC2 to MongoDB Atlas, and of the Kong API platform from EC2 to ECS.
  • Mentored engineers through GoFundMe’s mentorship program.

Cardless, Lead Cloud Platform EngineerAug 2022 – Jan 2023 · Remote

  • Codified 100% of production AWS infrastructure in Terraform, and wrote and drove adoption of the company’s first infrastructure roadmap.
  • Moved production Kubernetes to a new VPC at 99.9% uptime for critical services, and cut deployment times by 50% by consolidating DevOps tools into one CI/CD platform.

Veda, Cloud EngineerJan 2021 – Aug 2022 · Remote

  • Led the company-wide migration from GitHub to GitLab, with shared CI/CD pipelines on an autoscaling EC2 runner platform.
  • Built cloud-native applications in Python and TypeScript on AWS CDK and Terraform, and brought Datadog observability to AWS infrastructure and workloads.

Northwestern Mutual, Software EngineerJun 2018 – Jan 2021 · Milwaukee, WI

  • Designed and maintained a shared GitLab CI/CD platform for 3,000+ engineers, standardizing security, testing and deployment.
  • An early contributor to the company’s adoption of AWS CDK, and built the Python and Redshift data collection leadership used to measure DORA metrics.

Certifications

AWS Golden Jacket, Amazon Web ServicesDec 2023

Every AWS certification, the last of them earned December 30, 2023. The gold jacket is how AWS marks it.

Technical skills

Languages & frameworks
TypeScript, Next.js, React, PHP (Laravel), Python, JavaScript, Bash
Data
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB Atlas, MongoDB, Amazon Redshift
Cloud & infrastructure
AWS, Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, EKS, EC2, Lambda, CloudFront, Route53, IAM, VPC, RDS, DynamoDB, S3
Delivery & tooling
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Bitbucket, Infrastructure as Code, OpenTelemetry, Kong API Gateway, Claude

Education

Milwaukee School of Engineering, B.S. Software Engineering2014 – 2018 · Milwaukee, WI