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Mountain View, Ca, Us

Developer on SLM CAD, a cloud infrastructure actuation platform responsible for managing double digit percentage of GCP’s total VM hours.Designed & implemented Terraform based config as code for customers' static service resources adopted by the majority of SLM customers.Implemented Acquire API verb on actuation backend service, unblocking business critical brownfield migrations, allowing teams to migrate over existing instances to SLM.Planned and managed customer migration to security approved delegated authority permission schema.~Monthly oncall shift with 30m response SLO. Including debugging customer issues and mitigating production outages.

Modernized Localization Pipeline Python code base for Python 2 EOL.Migrated Vendor Access Report service from HTTP App Engine app to RPC implementation on Google's canonical cluster management system Borg.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- Lead developer in migrating Product Line Report (PLR), a mission critical analytics tool used by Home Depot merchants to fetch and present sales numbers on hierarchically categorized product data- Took PLR from a standalone SAS script to a full-stack, self-service reporting tool hosted on GCP. Utilized Flask, Angular hosted on GCP products App Engine, BigQuery, Task Queues- Maximized parallelization of tasks by identifying dependencies of every task which led to a 10x increase in execution speed. (original SAS script took 10 hours, the final version of PLR took less than one hour.)

Winter Park, Fl, Us

Developed on Ad Serving (GO) Infrastructure Server Software, high velocity backend.Developed proof of concept for Kafka+Protobuf message passing service.

Cupertino, California, Us

Developed test automation tool used to generate 1000+ unit tests using Python for every Sirikit Intent.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Developed proof of concept for what would later become Alexa Routines. Handled every aspect of feature development: from code design, to implementation and demoing.

Initially brought on in a data entry position. After creating an automation tool to improve the onboarding process I was moved to the Customer Success team.