Neil Essy
Principal Software Engineer at Act-On Software, Inc.
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolNeil Essy is a Principal Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with 14 years of experience designing and delivering web services and SaaS platforms. He began his career in hands-on development and progressed through leadership roles—CTO, team lead, and principal engineer—demonstrating strength in software architecture, development process, and project management. At Act-On Software he has driven cross-functional teams and architectural decisions since 2012, balancing long-term maintainability with iterative delivery. His BA in Mathematics underpins a methodical approach to problem solving and system design. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture trade-offs and for translating complex requirements into operational, scalable services. Notably, he blends systems administration experience with engineering leadership, which helps bridge deployment and development concerns in production SaaS environments.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA Mathematics, BA Mathematics at Reed College
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Github Skills (9)
scala9
actor6
lift6
implicit6
akka6
python6
immutability6
java6
actor-model2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bluemold/stm
Jul 2011 - May 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 1 push in 3 years 9 months
bluemold/actor
May 2015 - Oct 2020
Provides an implementation of the actor model. There is no one size fits all so lets provide more control over the Actor mechanics.
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes in 5 years 6 months
actor-model
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