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Mclean, Va, Us

Launched an internal platform for software engineers and data scientists to manage the lifecycle of digital assets (REST APIs, Kafka streams, datasets)• Architected highly available AWS infrastructure accommodating both containerized applications and Lambda services• Designed a micro-frontend Nginx solution to unify single-page web applications from diverse teams. Delivered comprehensive solution encompassing self-service onboarding, multi-region ECS deployment, CI/CD processes, and proactive monitoring• Engineered scalable feature-toggle system, enabling remote activation of new functionality. Deployed a multi-region active-active serverless architecture using Node.js, Lambda, and DynamoDB Global Tables• Developed self-service web experience for Kafka stream provisioning and discovery. Successfully deployed over 1,500 streams while ensuring compliance with the company's data quality standards and best practices.• Spearheaded security and resiliency improvements across multiple teams, mentoring colleagues in AWS and architectural best practices. Unified and enhanced system observability by standardizing logging, monitoring, metrics, and tracing. Crafted comprehensive alert playbooks and directed disaster recovery drills to improve system resiliency

Mclean, Va, Us

Level Money: Contributed to the backend development of a widely-used (800k+ users) consumer budgeting app built in Clojure. Implemented features including financial transaction aggregation, budgeting tools, and personalized push notifications. Championed enhancements in security and resiliency, introducing encryption-at-rest and multi-region architecture

Launched an AI-powered shopping assistant app that analyzes screenshots to track product prices across platforms. Acquired by ipsy in 2015• Implemented core features such as signup, login, price tracking, notifications• Leveraged on-device machine vision with OpenCV for local preprocessing• Enhanced app performance through client analytics, A/B testing, and conversion funnel optimization• Engineered a secure AWS S3 image upload mechanism using pre-signed URLs and the AWS iOS SDK• Made contributions to the official AWS SDK GitHub repository

San Francisco, California, Us

Created a smartphone and cloud-based inventory management solution tailored for the hospitality sector• Assembled and led engineering team, overseeing the development of a Python Django API and essential client support tools• Implemented the core iOS application using Objective-C, CoreData, and RestKit• Selected for 500 Startups accelerator program and successfully secured funding• Featured on many episodes of Spike TV’s Bar Rescue with 2.2 million viewers• Customers include many large restaurant groups, the Marriott and Hilton hotel chains

Burbank, Ca, Us

Developed a smartphone application to enhance experience for guests and athletes at Disney ESPN's Wide World of Sports. We used Phone Gap to develop a cross platform app capable of push notifications and gps navigation using open web technologies. In addition, I worked on a node.js express dashboard capable of posting updates and sending push notifications to guests.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Retail Subsidiary Integration (Zappos): Developed a tool for Amazon’s enterprise messaging platform to helpon-call engineers debug and triage customer transaction errors for Amazon retail subsidiaries• Worked on a Java implementation of the Java Message Service (JMS) spec• Leveraged test driven development and continuous delivery with Spring framework