Vivi Poit

Principal Software Engineer

Building scalable systems that move businesses forward.

Highlights

Secure Identity Platform for Federal Agency

Helped lead the design and implementation of a secure identity provider built with React and Rails, handling over 2M logins weekly. Delivered AWS WAF integration, compliance-driven session tracking, and contributed to team leadership and DevOps within a distributed, cloud-native environment.

Passkey Authentication Initiative

Spearheaded the product design and implementation of passkey-based login for a federal identity system. Collaborated on roadmap and led architecture to deliver modern, secure authentication at scale.

International Tour Operations Platform

Designed and built a custom reservation and operations system that enabled a growing ecotourism operator to scale beyond South America. Unified booking, logistics, multilingual pricing, and vendor workflows into a single Rails-based product, developed and maintained as a full-stack solo contributor.

Regional Tourism E-commerce System

Led the development of a fully integrated tourism platform for a regional operator. Included real-time inventory, reservation flows, multi-provider APIs, payment processing, and internal admin tooling. Deployed and scaled across Heroku and AWS with full ownership of infrastructure, DevOps, and security.

Education

Champlain College

MS in Software Engineering & Project Management (in progress, expected 2026)

University of Chicago

Professional Certificate in DevOps, 2024

Appalachian State University

Bachelor’s Degree, 2007