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Denver, Colorado, Us

Columbia, Maryland, Us

* Led a growing 6 person Agile development team, composed of 4 developers and a Product Manager building multi-tenant SaaS microservices in Node.js and various AWS technologies.* Responsible for recruiting, interviewing, and hiring utilizing LinkedIn Recruiter and Greenhouse.io* Promoted career growth for my team by goal setting and conducting regular feedback, mentoring, and coaching resulting in promotions* Collaborated with Product to create a balance of product and engineering goals while communicating via Amazon-style narratives with various stakeholders. Achieved business goals by closely working with PMs, Front-end, Design, Security, Customer Success, and other internal engineering teams.* Managed multiple projects utilizing agile methodologies (Kanban) to enable fast and continuous delivery. Responsible for cost analysis using Cloudzero and AWS cost explorer to purchase RIs to reduce business costs. Resulted in an 80% decrease in spend for DynamoDB. * Demonstrated technical leadership and strategic planning by leading a multi-quarter project to replace internal authentication solution with Auth0. Process included initial product discovery, vendor selection, procurement, roadmap and release planning. Resulted in improved security posture and login experience for 5,000+ monthly active users over 60+ tenants.* Responsible for overall service ownership including SLOs, roadmap, escalation and RCA remediation, incident management, and on-call functions. Critical services maintained at least 99.99% availability.

Columbia, Maryland, Us

* Designed and developed Node.js based REST APIs, in a micro-service architecture using various AWS services including ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Postgres, Redis, OpenSearch, S3, SQS, and SNS.* Led R&D effort and API implementation to remove manual processes for Legal and Data Engineering teams to process customer data requests to comply with GDPR and CCPA regulations.* Assumed day-to-day management responsibilities for the team starting in June 2020 reporting directly to VP of Engineering.* Improved application reliability by implementing terraform modules for Datadog and New Relic monitoring to enable alerting for 40+ repositories over Slack and OpsGenie.* Implemented improved caching strategies in Nginx to reduce load in backend authorization service by 50%.* Led effort to integrate Github security in 40+ repositories, along with reporting, to maintain SOC2 and ISO27001 compliance and comply with customer audits.* Participated in Leadership Development program run by CTO to prepare engineers for future leadership roles.

Columbia, Maryland, Us

* Led effort to migrate AWS EC2 hosted API services to docker containers running on AWS ECS enabling faster, continuous deployments and auto-scaling.* Broke down monolith repository into separate services for Account/User management, Authentication, and Billing, reducing code complexity and improving scalability and resiliency.* Designed and developed Node.js based REST APIs, in a micro-service architecture using various AWS services including ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Postgres, Redis, OpenSearch, S3, SQS, and SNS.

Columbia, Maryland, Us

* Responsible for developing and executing exploratory tests as well as automated tests in Perl and Lua in order to ensure product quality.* Developed multithreaded test runner to reduce automated test runs by 80%. * Automated manual test cases to achieve 90+% coverage resulting in decreased release cycles and enabling continuous delivery.

Reston, Va, Us

Designed and developed software for Python/JavaScript web application written for a Unix environment.

Bs, Computer Science

Computer Science