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• Projects I’ve been involved in as Senior Staff Software Engineer include:
• Critical http service: helped shepherd a long overdue confirmed opt-in project leveraging Go, DynamoDB, SQS, and Kafka
• Data lake system: designed and helped implement a system to store job seeker resume data in a datalake accessible via Athena or Spark. Uses S3, Delta Lake, Scala, Go, Kafka.
• Data lake system: designed and helped implement a system to detect bot interactions using NGINX, CloudFlare, Scala, Spark, Delta Lake, and Kafka.

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• Projects I've been involved in as Staff Software Engineer include:
• Kubernetes related infrastructure (Secrets management, prometheus libraries, Configuration shipping, manifest modification and validation, public ingress)
• Kubernetes Migration Strategy (ZR Factors, Dana)
• Revamped logging pipeline (involving filebeat, kafka, kafka connect)
• Best Practices for Go use within ZipRecruiter

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As one of the members of the core team I am responsible for the infrastructure that runs ZipRecruiter.Here are some blog posts I've written about cool stuff I've done at work: * AWS IAM usage at ZipRecruiter (https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/posts/aws-iam-at-ziprecruiter/) * How to bolt timeouts on to MySQL 5.6.

• Major responsibilities included management of two software engineers, code review, and ultimate responsibility of the technical aspects of the LynxGuide Duress and Mass Notification system.Major Achievements include:
• Migrated project from single large Subversion repository to a Git repository, along with issue tracker integration, and a code review system.
• Wrote and set up automated testing against a small matrix of databases/operating systems using Jenkins
• Migrated from engineer driven, manual upgrades to automatic upgrades using Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
• Quickly created a new product using a Raspberry Pi and entirely asynchronous Perl, allowing high performance with low resource usage
• Migrated significant portion of codebase to portable SQL to allow running against PostgreSQL

• Initiated and switched from IIS to Apache because of serious Perl interop issues
• Initiated and helped switch to CGI::Application from cgi scripts to encourage modularity and reuse in older projects.
• Initiated and helped switch to Catalyst from CGI::Application to increase overall organization of projects in new projects.
• Initiated and helped switch to DBIx::Class to promote code reuse and reduce dependence on SQL Server