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Benicia, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I lead the systems and frameworks team which builds and maintains internal libraries and frameworks which are used by engineering teams across the organization, including ads, machine learning, API, and enterprise layers.As manager, I:- Develop roadmaps for the Systems and Frameworks team with team-wide collaboration, encouraging participation and feedback from the full team- Proactively work with teams across the company to identify and plan ways we can help them. Adoption of Temporal and the core framework overhaul are two examples of large projects driven by this interaction- Have grown team by 33% despite pressures from recent hiring freeze and new hires going to higher priority teams- Led development and promoted adoption of- - Temporal, a workflow engine for microservices. Millions of workflows are executed daily across over a dozen teams in varying patterns. The internal SDKs we built reduce development cost of new services from weeks to days by simplifying and codifying patterns, providing automatic baseline metrics, and direct support.- - A service launching tool to generate a running application, initializing code, CI/CD, MVP metrics/dashboards, and more. To date, this effort has saved approx 2.5 developer months per month the system has been live.- - Overhauled the service framework powering several dozen services while coaching the client teams on adoption of the new versions. Main impact is 16% reduction in compute resources for a given service, as well as better observability which leads to approx 10% reduction in time to deploy a new service- - Migrated metrics and event tracking vendors and technologies in place, leading to approx. $600k annual savings. This required months-long frequent collaboration with multiple teams

San Mateo, California, Us

In my role as a manager, I let the staff engineers drive much of the technical direction, having weekly conversations to stay up to speed on the approaches, talk through various candidates, and provide guidance where needed. I ensured that my team had what they needed to be successful, whether that was room to work, help developing a plan, time to collaborate with other teams, or new team members.Ultimately, I and my team were able to meet some impressive metrics:- Roughly 4x growth in API traffic (up to ~4 billion API calls daily for location)- Doubled the number of microservices, providing better separation of concerns for increased traffic along with better scalability and resilience- Reduced unnecessary external service usage by 75% after analysis and service integration- Saved hundreds of thousands of dollars annually through replacement of Cassandra with DynamoDB on our most impacted services with zero downtime and no noticeable customer impact- Growth in staff from 2 reports to up to 8 including a manager before splitting the team up

San Mateo, California, Us

As Technical Lead, I shifted the direction and capabilities of Life360 through integration of new technologies, selling and coaching others to follow suit- Built drive detection and monitoring feature, providing a large jump in both subscribers and in revenue per subscriber- Enabled growth to billions of daily location saves by introducing Java and the microservice architecture- Reduced major incidents by ~25% through introduction of architecture reviews

San Mateo, California, Us

As Team Lead for our IoT team, I was responsible for working with partners (e.g. ADT, Piper, Tile) for experimental tie-ins and features (dissolved after C-staff refocused the purpose of the app)- Designed API with different strategies to surface similar home automation offerings from one or many different providers- Collaborated effectively with multiple external companies to shape their developing APIs to fit our needs

San Mateo, California, Us

Responsible for developing features, shaping coding and process practices, and consistency of code quality.- Eliminated a significant vector of issues by redesigning the configuration system to allow different environments- Enabled feature flagging and experimentation by designing, developing, and integrating a feature flagging system (still in use through 2022)- Expanded the purpose of the Life360 app by designing and developing shared lists and reminders

San Francisco, California, Us

I was responsible for architecture, coaching other engineers, and overall operations of the game.- Directly led 4 engineers in ongoing operations, making scaling decisions and recommendations for feature teams- Reduced major incidents by 28% through introduction of configuration system which was later adopted as standard across the company- Reduced game load time by up to 85% for high-paying customers through change in serialization/compression of persisted user and world state (average reduction of 40%)

San Francisco, California, Us

First backend engineer on new title ChefVille. I was responsible for overall architecture and code quality, software design, and the server side of feature design and development.- Enabled Zynga games to leave Facebook by porting the Zynga-wide Social Network API (SNAPI) to use zynga.com as well- - I was the sole developer responsible for porting, after which I directly coached 8 largest game teams (e.g. FarmVille) in their migration- - Provided leverage to Zynga C-staff in a major conflict between them and Facebook- Recognized by company as being critical to this effort via company-wide Atlas award, granted to fewer than 1% of employees

San Francisco, California, Us

Primary server engineer during development and launch of Cafe World. I was responsible for early prototypes of server code, ongoing feature development, and app reliability.- Design and develop full backend (code, persistence) from ground up for new game which grew from 0 to 10MM daily active users within approx 6 weeks- Tripled virality through integration with Facebook features e.g. feed and notifications- Doubled daily game revenue and received patent for design and development of novel Quest system (patent number 9,242,175)- Recognized by company for efforts via company-wide Atlas award, granted to fewer than 1% of employees

Associate In Applied Science, Accounting

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies