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San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco, CA, US

• Built Initial Frontend of Application from 0 to 1 in React, Next.js, Material UI, and D3
• Built Initial Auth layer for Full stack using AWS Cognito and AmplifyJS
• Built the Full Stack of a product from 0 to 1 in React, Next.js, Python, and Material UI
• Researched and chose the starting Design System
• Introduced and standardized data design patterns across the organization
• Iterated on our ETL scripts that move data from Athena into Postgres by introducing graceful failures and the ability to run all ETL scripts at once in order

San Francisco, CA, US

• Managed a team of 3 Senior Software Engineers with technical guidance during the development process of features, including scheduling the road map.
• Led meetings with the Product team to define feature requests.
• Implemented process changes with the Product team, which halved the time it took for a feature to be ready for development work.
• Worked with other managers to coordinate cross-team collaboration, which reduced our on-call load by 50% by removing downstream issues that would affect our team.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Planned and implemented multiple customer-facing product features while investigating and addressing ambiguous requests from various teams and stakeholders. I also ensured that the code was architected in a way that.
• Scaled systems from supporting a single location to multiple locations.
• Designed and implemented a service to manage robot configurations using versioned configurations that enabled inheritance and overrides, as well as rollbacks, quick updates, and changes. With this system, we could.
• Built and managed a security strategy rollout that an external partner successfully audited.
• Increased stability and consistency in all of my team’s codebases via enforcing linting, setting up CI/CD pipelines, and setting up testing frameworks where none existed. As well as through increasing tests in the API.
• Trailblazed the On Call procedures for the entire company from research to implementation of pager duty to assisting other team leads with set up.

San Francisco, California, US

• Ensured our Kafka data streams were guaranteed to be in order, which allowed our engineering org to leverage Kafka for inter-service asynchronous processing.
• Simplified application deployment by creating a template for database configuration that loaded credentials via AWS Secrets Manager in Rails.
• Created service-to-service authentication, authorization, and mTLS using LinkerD, a cross-functional initiative between Security and Infrastructure.
• Planned and implemented internal features that empowered the rest of the engineering org to break apart the Rails monolith into a service-oriented architecture.
• Modularized our Terraform codebase to allow for the reuse of common infrastructure patterns.
• Created and implemented a disaster recovery plan for our database by migrating from regular MySQL to AWS Global Aurora Clusters.

Seattle, WA, US

• Worked within Capacity Life Cycle, an AWS Infrastructure team.
• Built an ordering pipeline for a new capacity type using service-oriented architecture and native AWS technologies with Ruby on Rails. Led two engineers who were building the downstream dependency and UI for the same.
• Created a deprecation and migration plan for our main property to be converted from a single service to a service-oriented architecture leveraging native AWS technologies.
• Directed our team to utilize integration tests to move toward full CD practices. I also converted one of our properties to full CD.
• Created and facilitated a monthly technical learning series where engineers shared something they had built, learned, or insights from conferences they had attended.
• Created a dedicated operational backlog queue for my team to track.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Building and maintaining both customer facing and backend features.Helping to write course material.Rewriting our build system using Gulp.Leading a team to modularize our entire JS codebase using Browserify.Mentoring interns.Overseeing all site errors and making sure they get fixed.Taking charge of handling build deployments.Handling package management and.

Fremont, CA, US

Wrote configurations for routers and BGP sessionsCreated new email abuse system and facility monitoring system with development teamWorked on a flow parsing and analysis projectWorked with web hosting, transit, and colocation customers to solve their issuesHelped troubleshoot network related issues and attacksLed project for international address parsing.

San Francisco, CA, US

Built a report generating software that also reads and stores sales figures Decreased report generation time of a single period from 2 weeks to 10 seconds Created database for previously mentioned software Fully implemented a GUI version using TKinter Developed an audio transcoder and tagger using Sound Exchange and mutagen

Santa Cruz, CA, US

Student at University of California, Santa Cruz