Walter Sonntag
Principal Software Engineer / Architect | Platform & Backend Systems | Founder, Line Eight | Reliability, Performance, Cost Optimization
- Role
- Senior Director of Software Engineering (Client Engagement Via Line Eight) at Fratzke
- Location
- Las Vegas, NV, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Walter Sonntag
Principal-level software engineer and architect with 15+ years building scalable web platforms, distributed backend systems, and production infrastructure. I’m the founder of Line Eight, where I lead architecture and delivery for Fratzke Media Consulting and other clients, improving reliability, deployment velocity, and cost efficiency.Highlights:• Led engineering for The Game Awards livestream website, scaling to 4M concurrent viewers at peak.• Reduced hosting spend ~40%(thousands of dollars per month) through infrastructure consolidation, caching, and application/database performance optimization.• Led development of 30+ web properties for a NYSE-listed enterprise, supporting monthly visits and standardizing architecture and deployment workflows.• Built a pharmaceutical sales CRM enabling nationwide sample tracking and shipment workflows to healthcare providers.I’ve led 4–5 teams (up to 10 developers) and enjoy setting technical direction, running architecture reviews, and building systems that are fast, reliable, and maintainable.
Experience
Senior Director of Software Engineering (Client Engagement Via Line Eight)
Jan 2020 — Present
Led development of 30+ web properties for a NYSE-listed enterprise, supporting monthly visits; standardized architecture, deployment workflows, and performance practices across sites. • Directed engineering initiatives across engagements; owned technical decisions on architecture, infrastructure, and deployments. • Led modernization efforts, migrating legacy codebases to modern platforms and delivering greenfield builds. • Established best practices for testing, monitoring, and observability to raise reliability and operational readiness.
Education
California State University-San Bernardino
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science
2005 — 2009
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
General Studies
2001 — 2004
Skills
- Bash
- Eclipse
- Html
- Mercurial
- Apache
- Git
- C++
- Mvc
- Facebook Api
- Java
- Objective-C
- Perl
- E-Commerce
- C#
- Oop
- Kanban
- Javascript
- Html 5
- Ios Development
- Css3
- Android
- Php
- Design Patterns
- Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
- Xml
- Agile Methodologies
- Jira
- Mobile Applications
- Yii
- Sql
- Linux
- C
- Subversion
- Mysql
- Os X
- Ruby on Rails
- Mac Os X
- Ajax
- Photoshop
- Python
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