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Los Angeles, California, Us

San Mateo, California, Us

Managed a team of 8 backend developers for the Core Identity platform team at Sony that provided authentication and authorization services for users, game partners, and internal engineering services via a distributed platform in AWS.• Lead the planning and delivery of global Passkey authentication for all Sony experiences and platforms• Regularly collaborated with engineering, program, security, and product to align dependencies, scope work, define roadmaps, and execute critical projects that impacted millions of users daily• Provided technical guidance on major architecture changes like microservices and database migrations• Conducted code reviews, created technical documentation, and worked with principal engineers and architects to create a long-term technical roadmap for the platform that needed to support 100K+ TPS• Mentored engineers of all levels of experience. Providing career growth plans which included converting a TPM to an Engineering Manager and participating in several mentorship programs at SIE

Beaverton, Or, Us

Managed an agile engineering team of 8 full-stack engineers that owns a core authentication platform hosted in AWS that served millions of users daily around the world. The focus of the team was the design, construction, and delivery of a brand new OIDC/OAuth 2 authentication platform to several global native and web experiences at Nike.• Supported global, high-traffic events at a scale of 25K+ req/s with no downtime with services hosted in AWS• Coached engineers individually, providing regular feedback and aligning individual skills and growth areas with company needs and trajectory• Worked closely with product, design, and security to plan and deliver core features with aggressive timelines• Provided technical guidance for the design and delivery of large, distributed systems consisting primarily of Java Spring Boot/NodeJS REST API microservices in AWS• Drove adoption of exceptional DevOps practices: CI/CD pipelines with canaries, distributed tracing, and automated alerts and monitoring• Increased observability practices and tools to reduce MTTD by 200%• Coordinated multiple teams across multiple orgs and release practices to ensure zero disruption to the consumer base

Beaverton, Or, Us

Lead a full-stack team of 7 engineers. Drove technical vision and execution of the platform, mentored and coached teammates, and worked with product and design to deliver exceptional software used across all major Nike websites and mobile apps,• Spearheaded a major rewrite of the core consumer authentication JavaScript library with React and Typescript with a focus on highly cohesive/low-coupled design and a comprehensive test suite written with Jest for unit/integration test and Test Cafe for E2E tests.• Completely redesigned JavaScript application build system from a legacy grunt pipeline to Webpack 4 that improved project build times by 35% and decreased JS bundle size by 21%.• Led tech talks on JavaScript tools like Webpack and React at both internal and external engineering meetups• Drove and implemented engineering standards like test-driven development, automated linting, standardized commit messages, automated documentation checks, and code coverage validation• Managed Nginx ASG’s and Lambda’s that supported thousands of request/second written in NodeJS in AWS and worked on improving design, performance and security of backend services• Successfully increased the rate of logged-in members on Nike.com from 6% to 18% of all traffic with bug fixes, cross-origin session improvements, and performances updates of our Javascript session library

Beaverton, Or, Us

• Developed a Javascript SDK, iOS SDK, Android SDK, and Node.js and Java services for Nike's consumer authentication platform• Primary developer on CI/CD Jenkins pipeline that handled automated builds and deploys to production with 0% downtime• Followed TDD practices in both Node.js and Javascript apps using Mocha, Chai, and Sinon for > 95% code coverage• Participated in high-level technical discussions, led tech talks, and worked with many teams at Nike on integration, and production support

Los Angeles, Us

• Added S3 static asset serving to the core web stack for improved availability and performance• Worked on a large-scale overhaul platform migration to AWS• Planned and executed an extensive upgrade of the largest XenForo forum in the world with minimal downtime and user disruption• Built Symfony-based security application to interface with REST/SOAP for consumer credit card payment functionality

New York, Us

• Developed large scale web applications in PHP and Zend framework• Improved site performance and scalability of SQL Server backend• Implemented cross-browser consistent UI/UX with HTML/CSS/Javascript• Made improvements to PHP framework to reduce page load times• Developed RESTful web service platform in Go

• Designed and developed church website • Used PHP, HTML, CSS, and jQuery for development• Created logos and graphics with Photoshop and Illustrator

Reston, Va, Us

• Responsible for the development of several websites to display geological data• Maintained and created databases using MySQL and PHP• Worked with Google Maps API and HTML, CSS, and JS to design website's UI

New York, Us

- Create developer tools for analyzing metric data using Java, PHP and MSSQL - Implemented efficient website UI with JS, HTML, CSS - Use PHP framework Zend to implement MVC style coding - Worked with team using Jquery Mobile framework to implement mobile version of corporate perk sites.

Bs, Computer Science

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