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• Designed and developed core product Goldsand, a specialized Ethereum staking platform that meets the ethical investment needs of a rapidly growing $10B+ market, providing competitive and compliant yield.• Implemented smart contract on Ethereum, securely managing over $1.5M in user deposits, with contracts successfully passing multiple external security audits.

• Developed Python code to perform automated analysis on the production environment when production alerts trigger. This alleviates investigation burden from oncalls and reduced the Mean-Time-To-Mitigation for incidents by 5 minutes.• Developed scalable microservice code in Java to coordinate distributed network calls for use in the Presto SQL engine.• Automated Jenkins CI/CD pipeline in Python, freeing engineer-time and enabling regular software updates for our latency-sensitive high-value customers.• Integrated in-house regression and snapshot testing framework with Python to proactively catch performance and correctness bugs before they reach production, contributing to a high-quality and reliable software system.

• Designed and implemented rolling deployment infrastructure to roll out software updates during off-peak hours—increasing user metrics by maximizing service availability, and canarying releases over the course of a day.• Created a profiler that measures the existing deployment system’s impact on user metrics during downtime to demonstrate the value–add of the new rolling deployment system and prioritize services for onboarding.• Onboarded pilot services and documented onboarding process and system design in company wiki.• Worked cross-functionally with service-owners to integrate specific needs and regularly communicated progress.

New York, New York, Us

• Developed and integrated an email delivery status tracker, allowing users to confirm medical records were properly delivered to recipients.• Ensured HIPAA compliance by implementing tool to routinely archive and back up email provider’s event logs.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Evaluated risk–benefit of product teams transitioning to a new release of the vulnerability scanner’s rule-pack by analyzing a variety of metrics (e.g., issues found, scan time, lines of code scanned). Reviewed flagged code to verify that added issues were legitimate, and to ensure only true false-positives were eliminated.• Collaborated in a team of three interns to develop a Security Maturity Model which quantifies a product’s security posture and highlights areas of improvement to product teams through a specialized T/F questionnaire.• Enumerated Allscripts and subsidiaries’ domains, automated scanning of DNS and TLS issues, and documented issues as part of an effort to secure online perimeter.

• Led migration of production servers to faster VPSs to meet growing user demand, and configured back-end Linux servers from scratch.• Built user-facing webpages (such as sign-up & bug report pages) in PHP and interfaced them with back-end SQL database.• Designed and conducted security assessments to find system vulnerabilities. Fixed vulnerabilities (ex. SQL Injection). Maintained flagship product by rapidly fixing bugs reported by beta-testers.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Shadowed a network hardware stress-testing team to learn about day-to-day responsibilities and industry hardware, software, and testing techniques.• Used the Cisco IOS interface tool to configure demo switches and routers.

• Worked with project team to implement features for a talent acquisition service that uses aggregate data to intelligently pair employers with job-seekers. Developed mainly in C#, SQL, HTML, JS.• Discovered and fixed critical front-end security vulnerabilities that could lead to data leakage and verification bypass.