Curtis La Graff

Software Engineer · Consultant

Pinckney, MI
Curtis La Graff

Experience

President

Klutch Software

· Remote

Founded and lead a consulting practice delivering inventory management solutions for maritime and automotive clients. Work spans full-stack development, systems integration, and DevOps, with a focus on C#/.NET, Blazor UIs, and Azure cloud services.

  • Designed and implemented a custom ETL pipeline integrating third-party inventory feeds.
  • Managed inventory APIs supporting 80+ dealerships.
  • Established CI/CD pipelines and hardened APIs to accelerate releases and reduce defects.

Developer Associate Manager

Accenture / Pillar Technology

· Michigan, USA

Served as a consultant for Ford Motor Company, building and maintaining back-end services for their Build-and-Price online experience. Provided critical on-call SRE support during major product launches, and collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable microservices and modern frontends.

  • Supported launches of the Bronco and Mach-E with on-call coverage and rapid issue resolution.
  • Integrated Splunk for analytics, reporting, and alerting to improve operational visibility.
  • Developed Java/Spring Boot microservices and Angular/React frontends for multiple teams.
  • Partnered with Intuit to enhance QuickBooks PPP user experience.

Software Engineer

Amber Engine

· Detroit, MI

Engineered data ingestion pipelines and retailer portals for the furniture industry, enabling manufacturers and retailers to manage and publish product data efficiently. Led infrastructure modernization efforts to improve deployment speed and reliability.

  • Built ETL pipelines ingesting manufacturer product data into a Golang API.
  • Developed retailer portals using Angular, TypeScript, and MongoDB.
  • Migrated deployments from EC2/Fabric to Docker containers and AWS serverless.
  • Improved CI/CD speed and reliability, reducing cycle time for releases.

Software Engineer

Navigation Solutions

· Bloomfield Hills, MI

Developed automated hardware and software testing solutions for GPS units used in Hertz rental fleets. Contributed to embedded navigation codebase to resolve routing issues and improve reliability.

  • Created functional tests using Agilent Vee and C#.
  • Maintained POI packaging tools in Python.
  • Debugged C/C++ embedded navigation code to resolve routing issues.