Senior Software Engineering Manager
Current- Identity & Platform Management: Lead PlayStation Network’s core identity services, delivering reliable authentication and authorization to 100M+ global users with 99.95%+ uptime. Accountable for high-volume services with up to 130K+ requests per second to ensure a secure and seamless user experience.- Cross-Platform Account Linking: Enable integrations for platforms like Discord, Twitch, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and more including a bi-directional linking capability with Discord to support voice chat functionality. Led solutions for direct token upload, child account linking, and other technical innovations that enrich the PlayStation ecosystem.- Technical Leadership & Optimization: Forge strong partnerships with Product/Business leaders and Engineering to drive service roadmaps and launch feature deliverables. Spearheaded team initiatives such as Horizontal Pod Autoscaling for Kubernetes, custom API filtering, and schema transformations for OAuth token storage. These projects optimized performance and data security with collaboration from principal architects.- Reliability & Incident Response: Create optimized dashboards and alerting mechanisms that reduced MTTR and championed a release readiness framework for validating high-risk features. Standardized incident response practices with runbooks that empower all engineers to handle incidents efficiently.- Team Development & Leadership: Foster and develop high caliber engineering teams characterized by high collaboration, strong customer focus, and an emphasis on leadership at all levels. Cultivate an environment of leadership and ownership by designating feature and launch leads, managing on-call rotations, and conducting 1-on-1 coaching focused on feedback and career growth.