- Troubleshooted complex issues across over three dozen microservices, working with fifteen teams.- Collaborated with internal and external partners, development teams, management, and product teams. Recommended best practices for production support, cutting pager alerts by 50%.- Designed and developed solutions with Python and Java on the AWS platform.

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- Led and mentored a globally distributed team of six engineers located in the U.S., Argentina, Uruguay, and France. Drove technical excellence across time zones.- Spearheaded the design and implementation of a back-end microservice architecture using Kafka and gateway API, significantly enhancing service scalability and performance.- Launched and maintained critical financial modeling frameworks for a major marketplace, including U.S. sales tax collection via Stripe and Avalara, leading to substantial improvements in financial compliance

- Instructed CMPT 322: Software Engineering, through a hands-on approach that emphasized practical software development skills. - Simulated industry-like experience for students by implementing Agile Scrum methodology across projects, thereby cultivating effective team collaboration and practical problem-solving skills. - Developed comprehensive course lectures, interactive class discussions, and both group and individual projects, while ensuring an objective evaluation of student performance through diligent grading of their assignments.

- Led architectural planning for microservice based projects spanning multiple applications and multiple 
teams - Designed architecture for new external facing supplier API open to hundreds of Overstock.com suppliers - Developed Java applications, web services, and event based producers and consumers using Spring, REST, 
 and JMS

- Championed multiple high-profile projects resulting in the addition of over 1.5 million new products to Overstock.com's website, significantly expanding the company's online offerings and potential revenue.- Managed and successfully delivered ambitious, high-priority projects. Played a critical role in decision-making processes, and ensured timely execution.- Drove alignment and consensus on key initiatives by fostering strategic collaborations with business users, vendors, and leadership teams

- Developed multiple full-stack Java web applications, delivering efficient REST web services, enhancing application performance and launching the company's first Continuous Delivery system. - Pioneered innovative solutions, such as implementing a caching mechanism to improve application performance by a factor of twenty, and introduced test-driven development for JavaScript to the team.- Led software development for global teams in the Philippines and India, mentoring junior engineers and coordinating initiatives across distributed team members in various locations

- Awarded a two year fellowship from the National Science Foundation to integrate computer science into Colorado high schools. Served as an example of a scientist and an engineer in the field. Encouraged students to explore science, technology, engineering, and math. - Taught advanced computer science topics like decidability and algorithmic complexity, with an emphasis on helping students to understand the purpose and applicability of the subject. - Led high school students in an innovative educational project called the Application Development Team. Through this program, students learned practical software development skills by programming applications for the school district and receiving payment for their work.- Developed web applications with Django for businesses contracted by the school district, while teaching students basic Agile principles of development.- Attended and presented a project poster at the national NSF GK-12 conference in Washington, D.C.

- Taught Software Engineering Methods and Tools, Algorithms, and Introduction to Computer Science.- Lectured for courses when the professor was unavailable.- Developed lesson plans, labs, and lectures for topics such as Design Patterns, Object Oriented Development, Test Driven Development, and Graph Theory.- Recognized as the Outstanding Teaching Assistant at the CU-Boulder Department of Computer Science on three separate occasions (Fall 2008, Fall 2009, and Spring 2010).