Gavin Fitch
Backend Software Engineer at Nordstrom
- Role
- Software Engineer at Nordstrom
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Gavin Fitch
Backend-focused software engineer with experience building and maintaining distributed systems and web applications in AWS environments.My work spans data pipelines, backend services and APIs, and internal tools, with a focus on correctness, reliability, and long-term maintainability. I currently work as a Software Engineer at Nordstrom and have previously worked at Amazon and Kidder Mathews.
Experience
Software Engineer
Jan 2025 — Present
Developed and maintained key components of a distributed backend system (AWS Glue jobs, Kafka topics, DynamoDB tables, and Kubernetes services) to build a loyalty baseline dataset, drive ongoing ingestion into a new loyalty platform, and support end-to-end reconciliation against a legacy system during migration.• Built an AWS Lambda router triggered by vendor S3 file drops to dispatch the correct Glue workflows by file prefix, enabling reliable baseline and incremental delta processing at scale.• Owned and implemented a multithreaded Java/Spring Boot service on Kubernetes to validate calculated loyalty attributes between a legacy loyalty system and the new loyalty platform; results were used daily by senior leadership to approve final cutover decisions.
Education
University of Washington
Certificate, Audio Engineering
2016 — 2017
Seattle Film Institute
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Cinematography and Film/Video Production
2012 — 2016
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