Preston Choate

Experience

My professional work history. For personal side projects, see the projects page.

Commerce Technical Architect

Adobe

Feb 2022 – Present

San Jose, CA

  • Lead architecture and implementation of scalable backend platform solutions for global enterprise customers.
  • Designed a fault-tolerant, observable distributed ETL pipeline for one of Adobe's largest enterprise commerce clients.
  • Architected an event-driven backend platform using TypeScript, OpenWhisk, GraphQL, and Google Cloud Pub/Sub, contributing to an estimated $85M in revenue growth.
  • Defined reusable architecture patterns and engineering standards across Adobe's consulting organization.
  • Built internal developer tooling in Go to automate implementation workflows and improve engineering productivity.
  • Led a cross-functional, international engineering team through system design, launch readiness, and long-term maintainability.

Principal Engineer

Trellis

Feb 2021 – Feb 2022

Boston, MA

  • Led a production platform performance optimization initiative that reduced page load times by over 100%.
  • Established engineering standards for architecture, code quality, and delivery practices across the organization.
  • Designed and evolved client integration middleware across PHP, JavaScript, and Ruby on Rails systems.
  • Partnered with sales and product on enterprise technical discovery, contributing to $5M in potential revenue.
  • Provided principal-level technical leadership on ambiguous platform and client problems.

Senior Software Engineer

Blue Acorn iCi

Aug 2019 – Feb 2021

Charleston, SC

  • Developed production backend features in Adobe Commerce using PHP and JavaScript, contributing to over $100K in monthly revenue growth.
  • Improved CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows for a 50+ developer engineering organization.
  • Engineered a secure payment gateway integration between Adobe Commerce and a proprietary payment provider.
  • Built reusable integration patterns and middleware for enterprise commerce clients.

Software Engineer III

Classy Llama

Nov 2017 – Aug 2019

Springfield, MO

  • Designed and implemented custom backend commerce solutions for enterprise clients.
  • Built and launched a custom returns platform that reduced customer RMA processing time by 14x.
  • Automated deployment and infrastructure workflows using Ansible and Terraform.
  • Delivered production features across complex client environments with technical and business stakeholders.

Advanced Programmer Analyst

Leggett and Platt

Aug 2014 – Nov 2017

Carthage, MO

  • Built C# and MSSQL applications to automate critical internal business processes.
  • Developed database-backed tools and integrations for enterprise operations teams.