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Austin, Tx, Us

New York, New York, Us

Newport Beach, California, Us

Managed and led the 5-person backend engineering team in a ~40 employee startup.Owned team OKRs, planning, backlog, deadlines, operations, processes, communications, development, and recruiting.Architected and implemented greenfield adtech systems while maintaining preexisting applications.Proposed, designed, and built the adtech data model, eligibility system, targeting system, data warehouse & ETL event system, affiliate network & MMP integrations, postback service, and an investing application. Lead cross-team implementation efforts across mobile & data teams.Guided teammate architectures for all backend systems. Contributed code and code reviews to projects delegated to teammates.Championed the adoption of company-wide processes.Within engineering, introduced a team split, a lightweight 2-week agile process, monitoring & alerting systems, oncall, and a ticket-based support process.Proposed and evangelized engineering-external processes including an advertising partner integration & retention playbook, customer support issue escalation, ad operations, and quarterly planning schedules.Recruited and hired high performers at the junior, mid-level, and principal levels. Directed goal-setting and review meetings during 1-on-1s. Obtained promotions and raises for teammates.Simultaneously acted as a full member of the product management team. Maintained the engineering backlog, identified quarterly initiatives with the product team, wrote product requirement documents, planned & delegated project work, managed project progress, orchestrated releases, handled internal & external communications, and tracked results.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Maintained a machine-learning-backed advertisement optimization engine with 10,000+ TPS at ~200ms p99.9 contributing nearly a billion dollars of annual value to Amazon. Responsible for solo monthly pager duty. Promptly fixed multiple production issues without support.Led the engineering designs for a new ML-backed incentive system.Designed and implemented a migration of the service’s core data model to improve system flexibility. Migrated 2 databases, 13 code packages, 4 APIs, and 200,000+ S3 objects without issue in production.Mentored the 2020 intern for the 16-person MAPLE team. Led the team in ticket resolutions for 2020. Submitted and reviewed the most code reviews of team SDE 1s in 2019.Designed and implemented two new types of ML models to address the service’s cold-start problem.Partially designed and implemented a hyperparameter A/B testing system on live production data without disruption.Implemented a design meeting notetaking system to promote SEA – BLR communication.Promoted to SDE II in Q3 2020.

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Engineered various features and bug fixes for MeridianLink’s loan origination web application, LoansPQ. Researched and implemented an OCR solution for auto-populating loan application fields. Assisted in OAuth2 implementation.Division SME for caching solutions (ASP.NET cache and Couchbase).Administrator for meridianlink.com staging site.Leveraged ASP.NET 4, React, VB.NET, JS, Bootstrap, MSSQL, and jQuery among other technologies to maintain LPQ.

New York, Ny, Us

Developed front and back end features for the options backtesting function of the Bloomberg Terminal.Integrated Javascript and C++ code hit thousands of times daily into a large, safety critical software architecture.Instigated and facilitated a technical demo between teams sharing redundant features discovered while exploring the company.Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) certified.

Livonia, Michigan, Us

Tasked with designing, implementing, and documenting an SDK for Android and iOS developers that provides convenient access to Valassis' VMO product using Valassis APIs (Valassis Mobile Offers).Gained experience with Java and Objective-C using Android Studio and Xcode IDEs, respectively. Experienced professional software development on a team utilizing a structured agile methodology. Employed a scrum framework using Rally and JIRA management software.

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Tasked with writing Java code and Unix scripts to assist the Decision Analytics team of Experian's Costa Mesa campus.Acquired professional experience with many essential software development tools including Unix, Eclipse, and Git.Gained significant insight into the corporate software development process and how development teams interact in a professional environment.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Certifications include: American Red Cross Lifeguard Training, First Aid, CPR/AED, and Water Safety InstructorSelected from a wide range of applicants to work at a renowned facility hosting national swim eventsPromoted to Swim Instructor after passing internal assessments and achieving teaching certificationTaught beginner, intermediate, or advanced swimmers proper or competitive swim techniques and aquatic safety, as well as provide more accommodating water safety lessons for those with disabilitiesPerformed rescues and administered first aid in the event of drowning or swimming accidents

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Education record

High School Diploma