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New York, Ny, Us

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

• Designed and developed shared scalable RESTful API for B2C ticket marketing sites serving over 3000 members, e.g. Laughstub.com, Electrostub.com, and Tunestub.com. Vendini’s comedy members have seen an average increase of eight percent in ticket sales on Laughstub.com. Additionally, mobile ticket purchases jumped from 43 to 51 percent• Designed and developed high performance ETL layer between multiple databases and API using Sphinx. It supports fast geolocation search for over 200,000 events and venues. Meanwhile we use Edgecast CDN to cache our API endpoints for better performance over the country.• Designed and Built a multiple tenant content management system developed on OctoberCMS (a Laravel-powered static website generator) serve clients, e.g. sl.attheleo.com• Implemented the test suites for API code to better support the QA team, which includes unit tests, integration tests and json schema tests for API responses. We also use continuous integration services to build and test our projects, e.g. TravisCI and Jenkins• Developed front end components with AngularJS to consume the API• Code reviewed for other team members, fixed bugs and troubleshooted operational issues as they occur• Participated in software deployment and built weekly software release candidates

New York

• Managed and developed the backend of CHARGED.fm tickets website using our customized MVC frameworks, elevated client side experience and improved event discovery experience by utilizing Solr as event search engine, also integrated google maps. Increased customer conversion rate by 2x• Designed and supported CHARGED.fm RESTful API for over 50 thousand events with about 500 million inventory. We used Memcached for caching events and tickets.• Implemented interactive ticket selecting and management system by utilizing Javascript/SVG• Integrated third-party APIs. Including TicketNetwork, WePay, FedEx, Authrized.Net, MailUp and Kount• Built the new User Event Platform by using CakePHP, integrated with credit card processing solution• Did performance tuning on database, enabled SQL query cache and rewrote big queries. Also improved PHP speed by using APC opcode cache• Helped with server administration, set up Apache virtual host and install software such as Solr, Qrcode Generator on server• Mentored junior developers and interns regarding systems, programming, and troubleshooting

Master Of Science (Ms), Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical Engineering