Ethan Orevillo

Backend and infrastructure engineer

Two people looking up at the ridged green cliffs at Kualoa on Oʻahu. The person on the right is a BurntBase co-owner.
Plate 01Kualoa, O‘ahu
Role
Global Tech & Operations Rotation AssociatePrudential Financial
Also
Co-Owner, Lead Backend EngineerBurntBase
Based
New Jersey

I build and run backend systems. Full-time at Prudential Financial, where I ship Salesforce Lightning features and internal CRM tooling for the distribution team.

The rest of my time goes to BurntBase, a computer-vision product I co-own. I took over a dormant codebase, rewrote its backend from Laravel to Go, and own everything behind the API: the data layer, the inference services, and the infrastructure they run on.

01

Systems

  1. 01.1

    BurntBase

    Live

    Co-Owner, Lead Backend EngineerFeb 2026 – present

    Go/PostgreSQL/pgvector/AWS ECS Fargate/Cloudflare R2/Python/PyTorch

    A computer-vision product for Clash of Clans. A player uploads a screenshot of an enemy base, and BurntBase returns the layouts that match it along with the attack videos that beat them. I own the Go API, the Postgres and pgvector data layer, the Python inference services, and the AWS infrastructure underneath. It serves the web app, the iOS app, and a Discord bot.

    Users
    Tens of thousands
    Corpus
    Hundreds of thousands of indexed layouts
    Index
    Tens of millions of structure positions
    Surfaces
    Web, iOS, Discord
  2. 01.2

    Riptide

    Seto Labs
    In development

    Solo build2026 – present

    TanStack Start/React/PostgreSQL/Shopify/Stripe/Fly.io

    A SaaS platform for live-commerce sellers. It ingests Shopify orders into a live queue, shows buyers their position and ETA in real time, and gives sellers an overlay they can put on stream. Multi-tenant auth, Stripe billing and subscription mirroring, webhook ingest, and end-to-end Playwright coverage.

    Stage
    Hosted test environment, pre-launch
    Integrations
    Shopify OAuth, Stripe, Discord
02

Research

Anti-bot research

Ongoing

I reverse engineer commercial bot-mitigation systems. It started as the engineering behind Click Automation and became the thing I do for its own sake.

The interesting part is the adversarial loop. Both sides ship weekly, so nothing you learn stays true for long, and the only durable skill is being able to take apart something you have never seen before.

Methods
Browser and TLS fingerprinting, obfuscated JavaScript analysis, sensor-data generation, behavioral detection
Systems studied
The mitigation stacks in front of Footlocker, Champs, and similar retail
Applied in
Click Automation, 2018 – 2021
Adjacent
UD CTF; security auditing against CIS benchmarks at Longboard Pharmaceuticals
03

Experience

  • Feb 2026 – present

    BurntBase

    Co-Owner, Lead Backend Engineer

    Remote·Go, PostgreSQL, AWS

  • Jul 2025 – present

    Prudential Financial

    Global Tech & Operations Rotation Associate

    Newark, NJ·Salesforce Lightning, Apex, Aura

  • Jun – Aug 2024

    Prudential Financial

    Software Engineer Intern

    Newark, NJ·TypeScript, React

  • Feb 2024 – Feb 2025

    Alpha Kappa Psi

    Info-Tech Chair

    Newark, DE·Web, SEO

  • Jun – Aug 2023

    Longboard Pharmaceuticals

    Information Technology Intern

    San Diego, CA·Security auditing, CIS benchmarks

  • Aug – Dec 2022

    University of Delaware

    Teaching Assistant, Computer Science

    Newark, DE·Python, Instruction

  • 2018 – 2021

    Click Automation

    Founder

    Remote·Node, Electron, Reverse engineering

04

Stack

Languages
Go/TypeScript/Python/SQL/Apex/C++
Data
PostgreSQL/pgvector/Redis/MongoDB
Infrastructure
AWS ECS Fargate/Docker/Cloudflare R2/GitHub Actions/Fly.io/Vercel
Vision & ML
PyTorch/RF-DETR/YOLOv5/ONNX
Clients
Next.js/React/React Native/TanStack Start/Tailwind
Platform
Stripe/Clerk/RevenueCat/Shopify/Salesforce
Security
TLS fingerprinting/Browser fingerprinting/CIS benchmarks/CTF
05

Life

A surfer riding along the face of a wave, in black and white.
01Diamond Head
Overhead black and white shot of a swimmer in open water, a shark passing further out.
02Shark dive
Looking out toward the ocean over the green slopes of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
03Old San Juan
Five friends in front of a stone monument in San Juan at night.
04Puerto Rico
A snowy slope under a pink and purple sunset, a snowboarder riding down in the foreground.
05Last run
Three people in ski and snowboard gear standing together on a snowy slope under a bright sky.
06Ski day
The nose of a snowboard in the foreground, looking down a floodlit slope toward a pink dusk sky.
07Mid-run, dusk
A row of tall palm trees silhouetted against an orange sunset over the road in La Jolla.
08La Jolla
The coastline at La Jolla, sandstone cliffs curving into the Pacific under a pale sky.
09La Jolla cliffs
The sun setting over Barnegat Bay from the end of a long wooden dock, a boat crossing the light.
10Lavallette, New Jersey
A hilltop bar strung with coloured lights at golden hour, looking out over the islands of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
11Windmill Bar, St. John
Waikīkī beach and Diamond Head seen from a high balcony, turquoise water and breaking surf below.
12Waikīkī
An overhead shot of a poke bowl with tuna, salmon, avocado and sea beans, sesame scattered across the top.
13Maguro Spot
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