Greater Boston · Software Engineer
Ethan
Desilets
Backend engineer by day. Microcontroller tinkerer, bonsai grower, and 4,000-footer chaser by night. I build systems that scale — and circuits that just barely fit on a breadboard.
Greater Boston · Software Engineer
Backend engineer by day. Microcontroller tinkerer, bonsai grower, and 4,000-footer chaser by night. I build systems that scale — and circuits that just barely fit on a breadboard.
About
Started in machine shop and mechanical drafting at BVT and Quinsigamond Community College, then crossed into software through General Assembly's full-stack bootcamp. That physical-to-digital path shows up in everything I build.
I specialize in backend systems — data pipelines, distributed infrastructure, and the glue code that makes complex systems reliable. Outside of professional work, I apply the same thinking to home lab projects: if there's a sensor to wire or a metric to capture, I'm in.
Holds a Massachusetts 2A hoisting license. Comfortable with everything from oscilloscopes and KiCad schematics to Kafka clusters and Kubernetes manifests.
General Assembly
Web Development Immersive — full-stack certificate
Quinsigamond Community College
Mechanical Drafting & CAD/CADD
Graduated with honors
Blackstone Valley Vocational Technical
Machine Shop & Metal Fabrication
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
2A Hoisting License
Licensed heavy equipment operator
Languages
Data & Messaging
Infrastructure
Cloud & Platforms
Hardware
Projects
MSSQL → Postgres regional replication leveraging Kafka for a high-throughput order processing system.
Built a warehouse management system for final-mile delivery operations.
Automated migration of all repositories from Stash to Bitbucket with full history.
Refactored the order processing system for an e-commerce platform.
ESP32-C6 + DS18B20 reporting humidity and soil temperature to InfluxDB via Grafana dashboards.
Polling APC UPS units over SNMP and surfacing power metrics on self-hosted Grafana.
Raspberry Pi + GPS puck acting as a stratum-1 NTP source for the home network.
Custom microcontroller build monitoring boiler temperature, pressure, and relay outputs.
Beyond the keyboard
Hiking
Working the NH 48 four-thousand footers. Tracking via Garmin & Strava.
Bodybuilding
Consistent training and lifting. Fueled by patience and protein.
Ham radio
Licensed operator. Enjoys RF experimentation and circuit design.
Farming
Growing bonsai, tending gardens, and operating heavy equipment.
Microcontrollers
Raspberry Pi, ESP32, ESP8266, and Arduino — always a project on the bench.