Major technical accomplishments:* Construct event stream and tracing application infrastructure* Shipped SAML sign in for enterprise customers* The go-to reliable guy for root cause analysis on complicated product issues* Migrated services to Kubernetes* Numerous assorted backend features and improvementsFor The Team:* Onboarded and trained 6-8+ engineers* Regular in-depth code reviews* Developed org-wide framework and philosophy around on-call alerting and rotations* Organized customer backpressure project designed to eliminate 20% of on-call incidents* Navigated my team through 8 months of on-call fires* My talks on Futures, Threads, and EitherTs are regularly circulated in the company chat* Strong advocate for heads-down focus timePersonal/Other:* Deeply collaborative* Emphasis on upfront planning and design* Known for my performance at the company talent showAsk me for more!

* Scale backend asynchronous systems handling 1+ billion events/day* Focus on functional programming and scale* Fault remediation and root cause investigation* Feature design and implementation for projects spanning multiple months and quarters* Mentor junior team members* Interview and assess new talent, contribute to interview practices* Give instruction internally on tools, technology, and practices* Daily in-depth code reviews with team membersPrimary technologies:* Scala (❤🤗)* Multiple queueing systems: RabbitMQ, Kafka, Pulsar* ElasticSearch* Postgres* Play Framework* Kubernetes

Develop and maintain core backend servicesTransition platform to microservicesInstrumented platform with event tracing

* Migrated microservices web application to Kubernetes* Reduced product initialization time to 8 minutes with automated orchestration service leveraged on top of Kubernetes* Replaced developer VM with ephemeral developer environment running in the cloud* Advocate sustainable microservices architecture with developer teams* Integrated dynamic dependency graph resolution into development environment enabling 50+ engineers to develop growing network of interacting microservices* Created three greenfield Spring microservices in Java and Scala* Built developer App SDK and service pipeline backing $100k+ apps, enabling sale of several large clients* Created fully tested rock-solid data query language putting trillions of rows of data at clients fingertips.* Created light-weight server side rendering solution for embedding web resources in email, mobile, and faster loading in web* Wrote simple web-apps to demo and exercise developer plugin framework* Built company-favorite app counting down the days until cake day each month. :D* Managed automated Jenkins job DSL, defining build pipelines as code in versioned Git repositoryBuzz words used: Scala, Java, Kubernetes, Spring, Python, microservices, AWS, MySQL, Gradle, Maven, Ansible, Selenium, Javascript, Sonatype Nexus, HTML

Standing room only in lecture "Functional Programming in Java 8"Test Driven Development workshopLecture "Creating a RESTful Data Query API in Scala"

Design and implementation of clear and effective user experience, modernized outdated UXConversion of large scale Flex application to modern HTML5/Javascript implementationSkills utilized: Javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Backbone, Flex

Invented tool for automating big data analysis and ETL designDesigned and managed proprietary ETL systems for Fortune 500 clients

Developed data presentation utilities in C++/QtManaged build, development, and test serversIntegrated networking, MySQL, and SQLite capabilities into application functionality

Validated embedded Linux systems and software for developmental cycle features and bugs, creating complex configurations to discover edge and corner case issues.