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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

- Coordinated with upper management and tech stakeholders to refactor cloud and software infrastructures and reduce costs by 43%.- Managed a team of engineers to design, plan, and implement complex real-time reporting and alerting.- Orchestrated cloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD pipelines on Google Cloud across production, test, and development environments.- Architected, deployed, and maintained pipelines on GCP for commercial API SaaS platform Threshold API utilizing Cloud IAM, Pub/Sub, Compute Engine / Instance Groups, Cloud Build, Cloud KMS, CloudSQL, and managed Redis instances.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

- Professional Services lead working with multiple clients to determine business requirements for projects. Spearheaded projects on Google Cloud focusing on backend components written in Golang.- Designed and implemented a custom API gateway and reverse proxy in Go to handle over 2TB of daily data transfer across a highly available, multizonal deployment.- Created a data streaming pipeline on Google Cloud to deliver terabytes of JSON data to clients in near real time.- Engineered custom ingress applications to pull real time streaming data from multiple data sources and publish thousands of events per second.- Managed database schemas with migration tools and SQL code.- Developed scripts in Bash and Python to integrate with cloud-init on application servers to automate application startup and improve fault tolerance.

Greater Detroit Area

- Streamlined the transition from Heroku build packs to Docker containers for core backend systems.- Improved upon RESTful APIs for B2B and B2C application platforms in Python/Django.- Refactored asynchronous services in Python monolithic API to microservices written in Go to improve scalability and reduced latency by a factor of 1000 (from seconds to milliseconds per execution).

Misawa, Aomori, Japan

- Lead English classes and activities to roughly 180 students across three grades in eight classes. - Taught Japanese to Army, Navy, and Air force officers stationed at the nearby military base.- Organized, facilitated, and participated in English events and seminars throughout the year to prepare students for traveling abroad, staying in home-stay programs, English Camps, etc. - Managed the school’s English club and train students each year for speech contests throughout the prefecture.

Rochester, Mi

- Lead a team of student developers to work on the university's student portal system (uPortal).- Worked with multiple departments' IT teams to integrate different data sources into the portal system.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science, Graduated With Distinction

Master Thesis - Gameboy Assembler Development: Researched multiple lexing and parsing algorithms to create a more modern assembly language.

Bachelor’S Degree, Japanese Language And Literature, Computer Science