Software Engineer at one of the leading WordPress hosting platforms, serving more than one million customer sites across more than 150 countriesCreated and managed an internal, next-gen Platform API consumed by various services throughout the organization. Implemented using Go, Kubernetes, gRPC, Protocol Buffers and numerous Google Cloud products (Team Lead)Awarded best AI hackathon project for creating a Slackbot to allow users to chat with our internal documents. Implemented using a RAG architecture and Google Cloud Vertex for the vector store and LLM.

Created and managed an internal Kubernetes-based platform which hosts over 50 backend APIs for various application teams. The platform integrates an Istio service mesh, GitOps architecture, Cloud Native technologies and numerous Google Cloud products. The product was recognized by Google Cloud as a 2021 DevOps Award Winner for implementing DevOps practices to drive organizational success: https://wpengine.com/blog/unleashing-the-full-power-of-the-cloud/

WP Engine API development (Ruby on Rails), public API used by customers to manage their account and sites: https://wpengineapi.com (Team Lead)Smart Plugin Manager development (Go and Kubernetes), automatically updates customer sites' plugins: https://wpengine.com/smart-plugin-manager (Team Lead)

Full-stack Django Python development for the Billing API, custom billing system integrating various 3rd party services (Team Lead)

Full-stack Ruby on Rails development for the User Portal, web site used by customers to manage their account and sites: https://my.wpengine.com

Implemented support for batch processing and tag specification to the POWER AutoPort component, a RESTful web application that automates the process of pulling GitHub projects and building/testing them on a Jenkins server (Python, Flask, JavaScript, Rivets and Bootstrap)Supported the porting of Node.js and the V8 JavaScript Engine to the POWER platform

Added support for unicast clusters and live-updating the AIX kernel to Cluster-Aware AIX, a component that provides distributed, high-availability, AIX kernel services powering numerous IBM products (C and Shell)Lead transition of migrating testing team's Functional Verification Testing Framework to development (Shell)

Implemented IPv6 and loopback device support for the Network Installation Manager component, a layer of various cloud computing stacks used to administer systems; owned over 350 KLOC (C, Shell, Perl and Java)Owned, maintained and delivered enhancements including IVM platform support to the OS_install component, a cross-platform network operating system installer for AIX, VIOS and Linux (object-oriented Perl)Added IPv6 and Linux support to the Activation Engine component, a framework used to customize rapid-image deployments on virtualized, large-scale, enterprise networks (object-oriented Perl and Shell)Resolved various defects within the JFS and logical file systems, AIX's default file systems (C)

Created a collection of POWER agents to remotely monitor a set of systems concurrently in real-time for the AIX, VIOS and HMC platforms following an agile software development process (C, Shell and Perl)Received a Bravo Award for exceptional contributions to ensure delivery of product on time

Assisted with Sketch Understanding research, involved various approaches to pen-based symbol recognitionCreated a symbol recognizer using Hidden Markov Models, an efficient technique commonly used in speech recognition software (Python)

Provided support for the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn System Engineering departmentWebmaster of the Cassini System Engineering website (HTML, CSS and JavaScript)