Principal software engineer in the Identity group, serving as a technical leader across 5 teams of engineers.- Led the authorization team in building the next-generation OAuth-based fine-grained authorization system. Adopted an open-source tool, OpenFGA, and led designs for novel integration of fine-grained permissions with OAuth systems. Worked closely with partners across the company to understand business needs and set delivery expectations.- Participated in design and implementation reviews across the entire Identity Services Platform group, 6 teams and 40 engineers.- Planned and executed the 2023 Identity Platform leadership offsite for 20 participants across 3 days.

Principal software engineer in the Identity group, serving as a technical leader across 5 teams of engineers.- Led design and implementation of new contact validation service, including documentation and handoff to the team with long-term ownership responsibility.- Led “operational excellence” effort for authentication team as part of AWS migration. Identified high-priority areas and implemented improvements in documentation, monitoring, and alerting. Also implemented an “on-call practice program” where engineers performed key operations regularly non-production environments.- Represented the identity platform on a major architectural effort, the “account-identity split”. Focusing on the desired business outcomes I aligned with the needs of our internal partners and shifted our efforts to building a next-generation fine-grained permissions platform.- Co-led the EComm, Risk, and Identity organization principal engineering council (PEC). Set agenda for monthly meetings and started weekly “office hours” program to foster cross-team collaboration across the organization.

Senior software engineer and team lead on the authentication platform.- Led yearlong effort across 5 teams to improve login security for all native mobile applications.- Ran POC and analysis of a bot detection product from an external vendor. Analyzed ROI and performance tradeoffs.- Led identity integration for a high-profile acquisition over a period of 6 months.

Senior software engineer on the authentication platform.- Designed and implemented an infrastructure framework for running new platform microservices on AWS EKS.- Led the authentication platform response to large-scale account-takeover incidents.- Guided design and implementation of ”login classifer” system that used login history to determine the risk of a new login attempt and improve customer security

Software engineer on the authentication platform.- Built the authentication platform’s GDPR compliance interactions to collect and maintain marketing consent.- Led the team’s integration with Akamai’s dynamic site accelerator product, improving page load times by up to 1 second in most regions.- Researched and built the company’s first integration with a split-testing product, running A/B experiments for various authentication experiments.- Won Best Operational Advancement at the GoDaddy AWS hackathon with the Kubernetes Gated Deployments project.

- Wrote developer tools and supported various teams on the internal Kubernetes infrastructure.- Created a cluster bootstrapping system that leveraged Kubernetes custom resource defintions and controllers to manage Openstack resources. Using Ansible scripts for setup it was able to create, scale, and destroy multi-master highly available Kubernetes clusters.- Designed and open-sourced a Kubernetes debugging tool, used by teams to diagnose and repair problems with their cloud applications.

- Led two 30-student recitations every week.- Assisted in the development of course materials - topics including but not limited to API design, object-oriented design, unit testing, concurrency, and distributed systems.- Graded and provided qualitative design feedback to all 120 course students over the course of a semester.

- Re-architected a url-shortener application test suite to be fully integrated with the CI/CD stack and achieved 93% line coverage.-Migrated all active, non-abusive shortened links from the legacy shortener to the new shortener application.-Work with cross-company internal teams to seamlessly migrate them onto the new API.-Deployed fully-featured url-shortener to production.-Wrote a lightweight registry service loosely conforming to EPP standards.

- Implemented and tested a zip-code validation system as a registration feature- Used an external API to fetch and display scholarship results based on a quiz- Cleaned a legacy database of more than 200 unused tables and procedures- Participated in an agile two-week sprint based environment, completing code reviews for my peers