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Seattle, Washington, Us

Santa Monica, California, Us

• Templated a repository for serverless architecture written in Golang by leveraging AWS CDK that both simplifies a developer’s experience and saving weeks of setup time of new and greenfield backend services• Initiated the baseline groundwork for a user management service deployed on Go Lambda and Dynamodb

Santa Monica, California, Us

• Reduced high traffic API response times by 50-90% by optimizing GraphQL API calls on the resolver level• Decoupled NodeJS/Express/MySQL microservices utilizing scalable AWS AppSync with Lambda resolvers & DynamoDB models while practicing the Strangler Fig pattern• Lead backend development of new revenue generating opportunity and delivered MVP within 1 month by identifying edge cases early during grooming and working closely with frontend and product team• Improved operation/support team experience and productivity by integrating near real time updates to the monitoring dashboard (for cloud video production) by leveraging GraphQL subscriptions (Pub/Sub)• Bolstered growth of the engineering team (from 4 to 20+) by level setting engineering culture, creating interview material, and onboarding new team members of all levels• Increased on-call triage participation to 100% by initiating and creating standardized documentation to resolve on-call issues as well as being available to clarify questions to newer team members

Santa Monica, California, Us

• Designed revenue feature to enable clients to purchase credits, increasing revenue by 5%, by initializing payment flow with Apollo Client/React, and validating Stripe webhooks for payment completion (backend)• Refactored legacy Apollo Server GraphQL API codebase to become readable, self-documenting code by leveraging TypeScript, TypeORM, and TypeGraphQL, reducing some development tasks from weeks to days• Integrated client/organization sub-user management & notification system with Twilio SMS and SendGrid (email), reducing unwanted communication and tailoring communication to only desired parties• Enabled client-side image crop, re-size (for optimal resolution), and upload by utilizing pre-signed urls for AWS S3, eliminating a server-side image service and minimizing storage size up to 90%• Built Rest APIs to simulcast live streams (e.g. Youtube, Facebook) and monitor stream activities• Collaborated with operations team in designing a single source of truth by leveraging Airtable, as well as gaining buy-in from product team to deploy tools optimizing operation team member experience

• Employed GraphQL SchemaDirectiveVisitor to create custom directives that leverages GraphQL subscriptions for near real time server-side changes to save developers time by reducing redeploys of dev-environments• Leveraged a Redis to cache and track all IP addresses and different types of requests affecting specific GraphQL resolvers to decouple in-memory storage for one with extensive functionality such as expiration• Gained buy-in from team members to embrace TypeScript to maintain readability and increase type safety and efficiency• Implemented Jest unit test to ensure the custom schema directive does not modify the original resolver functions• Simplified user experience integrating Github OAuth for dashboard login and access to real-time subscription settings

• Founded, through my passion to promote healthy eating, a successful restaurant that employed 32 team members and nourished the local community with healthy and delicious meals, while creating a culture of family• Exceeded profitability goals by 35% by adapting to customer needs (alternative eating options, catering, etc.)• Systematically modularized tasks to with clear short term and long term goals to reduce complexity of the daily operation and to also abstract 'blame' from team members by taking a look at the 'system'• Optimized prime costs at levels well below industry standards, by caring about the details to ensure a great product and above all, a great team

Bs, Business Admin, Marketing Management Option

Certificate, Finance