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San Diego, Ca, Us

West Hollywood, California, Us

Developed and maintained a microservice-based streaming platform configuration management system using GraphQL, React, and gRPC. - Due to Kafka implementation issues I made the pivotal decision away from an initial Kafka-dependent architecture to a simplified, gRPC-based solution, removing the message bus requirement leading to us meeting critical project deadlines.Handling TBs of data daily. Implemented an ELT pipeline for ad network issue analysis, utilizing Kubernetes, serverless functions, and S3, routing logging data from Kubernetes services and transforming it with a GoLang service.Built and optimized observability tools with Node.js, TypeScript, GoLang, StatsD, and Prometheus, integrated with Grafana and DataDog for on-call alerts and monitoring.Contributed to the transition to Kubernetes, working with Terraform, Helm, and various programming languages to modify services and libraries for cluster-specific features, including secret management.Implemented a JWT-based authentication solution adhering to OWASP security guidelines.Led team collaboration efforts, assisting with scripting, debugging infrastructure and service issues, and providing clear documentation.

San Diego, California, Us

Designed and implemented the company's first scalable cloud-based order and subscription processing system, integrating with Shopify, handling backend intricacies, and categorizing erroneous transactions.Utilized GCP services (App Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Tasks) and Splunk for efficient transaction processing, log retention, and attack mitigation, creating custom metrics and alerts. - Experience mitigating a serious attack from a high powered botnet that was more than just a DDOSDeveloped a full-stack e-commerce platform using Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, Gatsby, React, and Strapi CMS, including tooling for version migration and content management.Created and maintained infrastructure as code using Terraform and optimized Dockerfiles for containerization.Improved developer UX by creating tools to emulate GCP services in local development environments.Initiated knowledge-sharing practices by documenting processes and leading backend team meetings for demos and discussions.Utilized MongoDB, becoming a Certified Developer Associate, writing optimized MongoDB aggregation pipeline queries, and designing efficient schemas optimized for our use cases.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Led development of backend services for Nike's templated messaging system, utilizing Node.js, TypeScript, React, AWS (SQS, DynamoDB), and Kubernetes.Optimized Dockerfiles, configured Terraform, and managed deployments to Kubernetes clusters.

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Developed and maintained full-stack Node.js/TypeScript microservices with PostgreSQL, NATS, GraphQL, and React.Utilized Garden for creating production-like development environments in Kubernetes.Managed production deployments and releases.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Built tools to improve data quality in ServiceNow's Discovery network mapping solution using Python and JavaScript.Developed Slack notifications and integrations for operational monitoring and alerting.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Developed and maintained a full-stack virtualization management product using Python, Tornado, Node.js, Koa, Backbone/Marionette, and Electron/React.Worked with various hypervisors, Linux environments (SELinux), NGINX, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, and OpenAPI/Swagger.

Carlsbad, California, Us

Created a new UI for user account creation and management and developed related back end features. The front end was built using React/Redux/Material UI and the back end used Google Firebase Functions and Firebase Realtime Database.

San Francisco, California, Us

Contributed to the development of BitTorrent Live streaming protocol and applications using Python, Node.js, RTMP, and AWS (EC2).Built a cross-platform desktop application in Python and a web application for live video streaming, statistics, and chat using Backbone.js and Node.js.

Atascadero, California, Us

At Experts Exchange I have worked with a large code base on a top-1000 Alexa-ranked technology. We practiced an agile process, usually running two week long sprints. Provided with requirements documents, I have designed and implemented major components from the ground up while keeping in mind efficiency, readability and other basic tenets such as DRY. This process usually included designing and implementing MySQL tables, java classes, jsp pages, and css/html pages.

Worked on a wide range of projects using a variety of stacks