Principal Backend Engineer
CurrentAs a principal engineer, I was responsible for team management, technical leadership, performance optimization and architecture refinement. Key accomplishments:1. Built a NewRelic–based monitoring system with custom dashboards for each application component and driven constant observable performance improvements.2. Standardized architecture and enforced best practices with various CI checks.3. Improved quality of unit and integration tests by the detailed documentation, custom matchers and CI checks.3. Architected a per–role schema design for GraphQL and extracted one schema from the initial monolitic one.4. Participated in the development of a competence matrix aiming to improve a learning curve for engineers and mentored team members