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New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

Draper, Utah, US

Coordinated efforts across 5 separate engineering teams to ship a new product offeringIntroduced a service scaffold and set of core libraries that are used across the engineering teamWorked closely with product management to scope new features and productsRevamped the data warehouse to allow executives to derive meaningful insights from the data

New York, New York, US

Managed a team of 5 engineers that own the systems responsible for streaming 30B+ events perday to customers using Java and KafkaInterviewed candidates and hired 2 engineers to join the teamWorked together with product management to create and execute on OKRs and annual roadmapsActed as a force multiplier for the team by enabling others and working on.

New York, New York, US

Upgraded the codebase from Java 8 to Java 11 to take advantage of newer language features andoptimizations, leading to 12% lower CPU and memory utilizationDesigned and implemented auto-scaling for Kafka Connect using flush size and task count,reducing the p99 latency from 35 minutes to 9 minutesArchitected a system to detect and report on incidents with.

Austin, Texas, US

Lead and mentored a team of 5 engineers with ownership over the core systems and libraries that all other microservices rely onOversaw the breakdown of a monolith into microservices while serving live traffic to customers without any downtimeIdentified and resolved issues that reduced total AWS spend by over 20% without any impact on clients or internal.

Austin, Texas, US

Designed and developed clickstream analytics pipeline, including processing, recording, storage, and reporting on tons of interactions (>6B per month) with near 100% uptime using AWS RedshiftRedesigned an internal social media search engine using Elasticsearch, ingesting >300M documents per month and handling all search requests with a flexible and.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

Improved the software development environment with various tools and utilitiesGathered requirements from users across several departmentsMaintained several tools using Perl, Ksh, and Awk to analyze data from configuration managementDeveloped a web service using PHP, JS, and HTML to display reports mimicking that of pivot tablesCreated a Python application.

New York, NY, US

Assisted professors teaching Design and Analysis of AlgorithmsWrote homework questions, solution sets, and graded homeworkHeld office hours to assist studentsProctored exams

New York, NY, US

Tutored courses such as:Discrete Mathematics (considered best tutor in this class)Programming and Problem Solving (in Python)Data Structures and Algorithms (in C++)

New York, New York, US

Developed small scripts as well as medium sized applications to assist in servermanagement, application deployment, and report generatingBuilt and maintained database systems and Microsoft serversManaged various security software such as Bit9, CarbonBlack, and Symantec Antivirus

New York, NY, US

Provided technical support to over 1,300 computers and 5,000 users (students, staff, and administrations). Installed/troubleshooted various Microsoft operating systems and other Microsoft applications. Installed/troubleshooted Apple related devices. Troubleshooted and repaired network issues (wireless and wired). Designed and provided network capabilities.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science With Minors In Math And Physics

High School Diploma