- Cut operating expenses by $15k / month by identifying & deleting unused & untracked Plaid item IDs incurring unnecessary subscription fees by developing an endpoint to bulk delete them via the company’s admin website- Reduced fraud in the app’s cash advance service by validating full SSNs, phone numbers & residential addresses via 3rd party services from Footprint, Twilio, & Google- Automated away credit line limit changes on users by creating an endpoint that integrates with Pier Finance’s API, streamlining a previously manual process & improving operational efficiency

- Improved team’s operational excellence by decluttering the service’s GCP dashboards and reducing their load times by eliminating obsolete GCE metrics post-migration to GKE

- Cut infra costs by $482k / year in 6 months for Snap's 2D AR clothing tryon service by rearchitecting the backend to handle customer traffic more efficiently by creating a custom load balancer- Cut infra costs by $273k / year & request latency by 900 ms (p90) in 3 months for Snap's 2D AR clothing tryon service by routing requests based on hardware needs- Cut infra costs by $57k / year for Snap’s 2D AR clothing tryon service by leveraging Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscalers with custom metrics

I owned the development, testing, & operations of a highly scalable & available video playback service that powered Discovery+ as it released to markets worldwide- Ensured an optimal viewing experience for customers by developing, launching, maintaining and rebuilding an AWS-based microservice used for distributing ~250 TB/month of video files across server regions and cloud storage services

I owned the development, testing, & operations of a highly scalable & available metadata service that powers the Amazon Prime Video storefront across all devices worldwide- Contributed to the development of Prime Video Profiles by extending a subset of the team’s API to optionally supply identity and context data downstream, leading to a key win for user experience

- Ensured product quality for TurboTax Online by automating end user scenarios using Selenium- 18-month contract through TEKSystems