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Royce Carbowitz

Experience

A career spanning enterprise engineering, military service, startup ventures, and AI-native development.

Founding Engineer

Notary Everyday Inc.

Full-Time
Oct 2025 – Present

Phoenix, Arizona

  • Rebuilt the entire infrastructure from the ground up, reducing AWS spend by over 60% while eliminating biweekly outages entirely
  • Replaced laptop-to-production deployments with comprehensive CI/CD pipelines, transforming release reliability and team velocity
  • Led the transition to AI-native engineering practices, training the team on the SPOQ methodology and integrating AI tooling throughout the development lifecycle
  • Helped deploy a V2 of the platform, delivering substantial improvements to the core product experience

Lead Software Engineer

Chase Media Solutions

Full-Time
Mar 2022 – Oct 2025

Remote

  • Led team of 5 engineers building high-performance APIs that analyze millions of daily transactions to deliver targeted card-linked offers across Visa, Amex, and Mastercard networks
  • Spearheaded infrastructure modernization from monolithic EC2 to containerized ECS architecture, achieving 99.9% uptime improvement from weekly outages to a single annual incident
  • Optimized system performance by 43% reducing cold start times from 14s to 8s
  • Accelerated team velocity through streamlined onboarding, reducing ramp-up from 8 weeks to 2 weeks
  • Established fully automated CI/CD pipeline with integrated security validation
  • Modernized Chase Offers platform from legacy Spring to Spring Boot
  • Pioneered AI/ML initiatives for customer-facing features including vector search, RAG architectures, and model fine-tuning

Senior Software Engineer

PDS

Contract
Sep 2021 – Mar 2022

Remote

  • Contracted at Silicon Valley Bank prior to their closure, developing custom microservices in TypeScript with Loopback
  • Built services supporting the new loan onboarding platform, using Kafka and event-based architecture for extensibility
  • Delivered each service with greater than 80% code coverage for automated unit and acceptance tests

Software Engineer

Motion Recruitment

Contract
Mar 2021 – Sep 2021

Arizona

  • Contracted at USAA developing custom user interfaces in React leveraging the company cloud for deployment
  • Built multiple backend Java/Spring Boot microservices following company security guidelines
  • Completed tickets in a SAFe Agile manner collaborating with cross-functional teams

Senior Software Engineer

American Express

Full-Time
Sep 2019 – Feb 2021

Phoenix, AZ

  • Started as a contractor through Apex Systems before converting to full-time (Engineer 1) in January 2020
  • Led development of CertaaS, enterprise-wide certificate automation platform requiring 99.999% availability
  • Built distributed microservices architecture using Spring Boot, Kubernetes, and Kafka
  • Improved certificate renewal processing efficiency by 600% through message queue optimization
  • Created SDK enabling zero-touch onboarding for internal teams

President

CEAD, LLC

Founded
Dec 2018 – Jul 2020

Phoenix, Arizona

  • Founded company focused on automating plant growth using custom IoT hardware and proprietary software
  • Designed a custom PCB based on the ESP8266 and wrote firmware in Arduino using PlatformIO
  • Developed a Java backend API and React UI for monitoring and controlling growing environments
  • Managed a team of 4 across hardware and software development

Lead Developer

Dot Com Development

Full-Time
Nov 2018 – Aug 2019

Scottsdale, AZ

  • Started as a UX designer before transitioning into a lead development role
  • Built the Backyard Builder mobile app in React Native for Moon Valley Nurseries
  • Developed Evocai, a client application designed to help drive local shopping engagement

President

Screen Art Studios

Founded
Apr 2017 – Oct 2018

Phoenix, AZ

  • Co-founded startup building custom web and mobile applications in Vue.js and React, deployed to AWS
  • Built TripClock Mobile, a time and mileage tracking app letting field workers clock in from home and route directly to clients
  • Developed TotalResponse, an app for sending E911 messages in the event of an accident

Nuclear Field Machinist Mate

US Navy

Full-Time
May 2014 – Apr 2016

Charleston, South Carolina

  • Completed Advanced Nuclear Power Course at Naval Nuclear Power Training Command
  • Developed rigorous attention to detail and systematic problem-solving through the Navy's most technically demanding training pipeline

Education

Woz U

Development Program with Node.js Specialization

Jun 2017 – Dec 2017

Naval Nuclear Power Training Command

Advanced Nuclear Power Course

Nov 2014 – May 2015