Designed and developed Java microservices in support of Pandora's $1B/year digital advertising business. Extensive use of A/B testing and data analysis to monitor and improve key business metrics such as customer retention and monetization. Collaborated closely with product managers, data scientists, client engineers, quality engineers, and operational teams to successfully deliver numerous projects over ten years. Supported leadership in the role of Ad Delivery System Architect, contributing to the creation and execution of the department's technical roadmap.

Agile product owner for core server components. Managed team backlogs and feature prioritization. Participated in the cross-team architecture group, planning and communicating the company's technical roadmap.

Java Engineer for backend services including user account management, programming guide data, and iTunes subscriptions. Front-end web server configuration using Apache and mod-python. Improved the scalability of the platform through the separation of personal user data APIs from static app domain data APIs, pre-publishing static data, and implementing HTTP 1.1 caching protocols. Championed the migration from XML-RPC to REST APIs for client-server interfaces.