TrophyGolf
Senior Software Engineer (Contract)
Golf platform with full AWS serverless backend. Solo-architected infrastructure integrating USGA GHIN data across 14,000+ courses.
What I built
Solo-architected and built the entire AWS serverless backend from scratch: VPC networking, Lambda functions, S3 storage, Redis caching, and Express API layer.
Integrated with the USGA GHIN system to sync handicap and course data across 14,000+ golf courses nationwide.
Built an automated cron-based sync pipeline that keeps course data fresh without manual intervention.
Designed the monorepo architecture to keep backend services, shared utilities, and infrastructure config in a single, maintainable codebase.
Hard problems
Designing a serverless architecture that handles bursty traffic during tournament seasons
Syncing data reliably from an external API (USGA GHIN) with varying response times and rate limits
Keeping Lambda cold starts minimal while running inside a VPC