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Seattle, Wa, Us

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Seattle, Wa, Us

𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 10% 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺-𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯.• Lead system design, software architecture, and decision-making on a team of 70+ engineers• Responsible for designing highly resilient and secure microservice architectures that run in AWS• Designed and implemented new Java web service endpoints to serve advertisements in less than 100ms that can scale horizontally up to tens of thousands of transactions per second• Created client libraries in Java and JavaScript for use across Expedia Group brands to enable page owners to display advertisements on their pages with minimal engineering investment• Provided training to instructors in the US, China, India, and Jordan to grow the quality of the engineering organization through Code Retreats• Selected as an Expedia Group Evaluator to raise the bar on hiring by having veto power over new hires and accountability for candidate quality. Contributed to more than 50 successful hires• Regularly provide mentorship to engineers across organizations helping them to grow in their careers

Seattle, Wa, Us

𝘍𝘶𝘭𝘭-𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵-𝘦𝘯𝘥, 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬-𝘦𝘯𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴• Independently initiated and completed work to improve load times of the homepage and display advertisements across all Expedia Group owned websites. The changes yielded a more than 16% improvement in homepage load time and a more than 50% improvement in display advertisement load times across all Expedia pages.• Delivered a mobile native advertising solution to return sponsored content on the hotel search results page in less than 2-seconds versus 25-seconds on the legacy path• Developed a JavaScript library to collect page performance data from real users and stream this data to the analytics systems for both real-time and batch analysis• Designed and contributed to the implementation of a cross-domain and cross-device targeting platform in Scala for delivering relevant sponsored content to users• Contributed to the success of the engineering organization by facilitating company-wide Code Retreats which focused on writing clean tests and clean code• Led a company-wide effort involving more than 17 teams across the engineering organization to prevent a data leak. All updates were completed ahead of schedule to avert a $600k per day financial impact to Expedia

Seattle, Wa, Us

𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵-𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘦.• Built a JavaScript library that displays personalized sponsored background images on the homepage of Expedia Group owned brands. The ad generated more than $20 million per year in new revenue. • Responsible for research and development of new and unique types of ad products, such as fully responsive creatives, native advertisements, and real time ad-serving metrics• Served as Resident Advisor for the Expedia summer internship program. Successfully coached an intern who completed a dynamic ads pricing project that displays ads for hotels with real time prices• Actively participated in technical interviewing, which resulted in 18+ successful candidate hires

Dallas, Tx, Us

𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵-𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘰𝘐𝘗 𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮.• Developed REST and SOAP APIs used to provision millions of VoIP customers onto the AT&T network• Led UI development for a Java web application used to manage VoIP provisioning• Architected a network routing application in Java that generated $18 million per year• Developed the customer portal for the AT&T U-Verse product used by millions of customers daily

• Developed applications in Java and C for tasks such as encrypting, processing, and transferring payroll data• Administered City financial systems running on an IBM AS/400 platform• Developed tools to automate Information Technology tasks such as creating and restoring system backups