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Redmond, Washington, Us

Full stack engineer with Microsoft Learn (https://learn.microsoft.com) -- built the backend infrastructure that powers Microsoft Q&A (https://learn.microsoft.com/answers).Notable achievements include:- Successful launch of a greenfield project that resulted in a 65% reduction in Azure costs.- Built cloud infrastructure that supported 13 million page views and 6.5 million unique visitors in the first month. - Founded and moderated the Microsoft Infosec Interest Group, bridging gaps across roles and skill levels and raising awareness around active APTs, blue/red team tooling, and walkthroughs of complex CTF challenges.- Designed and implemented a series of spam mitigation algorithms to protect the Microsoft Learn platform, achieving a 75% preemptive removal rate and discouraging would-be attackers, reducing attempts from would be attackers from 9,000 daily to just 200.

West New York, Nj, Us

CP Sharp began as a web design studio but occasionally takes on bespoke software projects. It was founded to allow me to take on interesting projects and experiment with technologies that I might not otherwise have access to, notable achievements include:• Successful development, release, and maintenance of a cross-platform mobile game.• Advanced knowledge of PHP, Wordpress, and associated tooling, reducing turnaround for concept to go-live.• Design, development, and rollout of a website for a major TV/News personality.• Helped build and support the web presence of a startup funded by a well-known VC.

New York, New York, Us

FeedbackLoop is a product company focused on rapid consumer feedback. I had the opportunity to architect and implement a large part of our product's technical infrastructure. Notable achievements include:• Architect and maintain a data-ingestion pipeline, processing constant data streams at 1,000 requests/second with bursts of up to 10,000 utilizing AWS Lambda, Kafka, and AWS Aurora.• Took part in shaping the team's approach to TDD using jest, enabling quicker feature iterations while improving release quality.• Assisted in planning and implementing the rewrites of several ruby-on-rails applications to modern vue/typescript/node stacks. • Create a stress-testing process for data ingestion using locust.io to validate application behavior under load later adopted by sibling teams as a company standard. The stress-testing process gives our dev and product teams incredible confidence during changes to the data ingestion pipeline and drastically reduces the risk of introducing performance issues.• Engaged in a threat modeling exercise that led to a targeted penetration test of our entire application suite. Done from white and black box perspectives, using industry-standard tools (ffuf, Burp, Nmap).• Exposed and resolved multiple vulnerabilities related to cloud infrastructure, specifically improper handling of AWS keys and bucket permissions, boosting our customer's confidence in our data handling and saving us potentially catastrophic costs from AWS service abuses.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

BuildIt is a digital transformation and software contracting studio. While in this role, I had the opportunity to lead internal and external projects and get exposure to various technology stacks. Notable achievements include:- Led the successful modernization effort of a major financial company's compliance system and its transition to Agile. - Took on the role of studio lead when the company had an unexpected departure in senior management.- Designed, architected, and led the platform development effort of an internal company project that promoted knowledge sharing and career advancement. - Lead the effort to modernize a major financial company's equity settlement and clearing platform.

New York, Ny, Us

Interactive Edge is a specialized Microsoft report automation provider. In this role, I lead the modernization of the company's entire technology surface under the direction of the company's CEO and COO. The primary directive was to move its existing flagship product to Azure.- Successfully turned a waterfall team agile, leading to a predictable work pace and deliverable dates.- Oversaw migration from an on-prem exchange server to Office 365.- Architected and led the effort that saw the complete functionality of their existing desktop product replicated in a scalable Azure environment.- Encouraged the use of open-source software to reduce operating costs drastically.

Hong Kong, Hk

SetClear, initially a small fintech startup focused on equity settlement clearing, was wholly purchased by a large Asian bank during my time there. This led to my five-year deployment to Singapore and included a six-month team-building effort in India. My first role was as a QA test developer, eventually leading to a senior management role wherein I was a direct report to the company CIO. Notable achievements include:- Bootstrapping a team of eight while in India and overseeingknowledge transfer sessions to ensure they could comfortably work with our codebase. - Aiding in the growth of and overseeing our application suite's entire development and support team, spanning four time zones, and ensuring 24/7 coverage.- Successful delivery of two .NET-based web platforms custom-tailored to the needs of CLSA's ops and research teams. - Simplifying a highly complex and high-cost BizTalk implementation using simple web service patterns, reducing QA hours spent testing and licensing costs.- Researched, evaluated, and introduced an array of modern web UI technologies that had an overwhelmingly positive impact on the experience of our end-users.- Working with and understanding the tradeoffs necessary for financial system architecture on a global scale.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Computer Information Systems

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Computer Science