Principal Software Engineer
Current• Optimize Apollo GraphQL server for improved performance, observability, and reliability.• Replaced existing A/B testing solutions company-wide for improved reliability, business metrics reporting, and visibility.• Implement hosted Elasticsearch company-wide to provide configurable search relevancy by non-technical users and improved search tools.• Develop and deploy ML capabilities including multiple in-house article recommendation engines.• Tech lead for a software review site which scaled from zero to a half-million monthly organic sessions, 3,000 articles, and 40+ writers in 1 year.• Built an affiliate marketing platform from scratch, including all editorial processes and infrastructure in 3 months.• Prototype Python GraphQL implementation and create organization-wide buy-in for enhanced cross-team API functionality to decrease team silos and improve client-side applications consumption of data.• Co-create mobile game in Unity designed to grow the love of investing using real-time stock market activity and strategic game mechanics.