Principal Technical Lead for the Payment Experiences Services org and Monitoring and Observability domain for Venmo; principal engineer for the Platform as a Service, Business Profiles, Taxes and Goods and Services teams. Primary Technical Lead for the Venmo Monolithic Service and Database Decomposition initiatives.* Setting and executing an Engineering and Operational Excellence vision, including the creation and management of a tech-debt backlog and facilitating the oncall process* Architecting large scale products with scalability and reusability in mind, * Promoting a high quality bar by providing feedback and guidances of engineers' designs and code, * Mentoring and supporting all of my peers including the team tech leads,* Partnering with Product to assist in their initial solution investigations and cross-org conversations,* Diving into various projects to help drive them forward while the leads are on vacation, as well as help engineers get unblocked on their tasks* Leading by example via participating on the oncall rotation and implementing code whenever possible.

Lead one-hour cardio dance classes that mix steps from various styles such as Latin, belly dancing, African, hip hop, jazz, and ballet into short routines set to club music and taught on the fly. The classes are targeted to students whose dance backgrounds range from professional to none at all.

Nov 2019 - Present: Content Analysis and Translation for Amazon's internal case management system. * Integrated translation into the investigation widgets to improve hiring flexibility while refactoring our client-facing service to facilitate adding new, non-case-related use cases* Redesigned our case translation database to be client-agnostic as part of a partner team's database migration effort. Influenced the partner team's approach to limit customer impact. March 2016 - November 2019: New Business Innovations for Fine Art, Collectibles and Handmade categories* Migrated the Fine Art tech stack to the Home category: I had to determine requirements, convince the Home team to let us migrate to their stack, design the approach and implement it.* Designed and implemented a search widget to improve visibility of Handmade products. With no onboarding support I investigated the Search team's widget system in order to integrate and implement a viable solution; I became a go-to person for other teams at Amazon for integrating with the Search team's systems. Jan 2014 - March 2016: High-TPS backend orchestration layer of the Listing Feeds system that enables Sellers and internal clients to manage their listings in bulk. This layer serves multiple purposes including throttling, maintaining merchant fairness of system resources, no-oping to conserve downstream TPS, and managing update order for correctness.* Designed and implemented an Oracle to DynamoDB database migration which also included incorporating a partner team's backward-incompatible API migration. * Collaborated overseas with three other teams to launch feature support for vendors on the p0 for Amazon's Listings rearchitecture initiative. * Designed and implemented a tool that reduced the time required for an oncall to investigate and address why feeds were backlogging from 1 week to 1 hour.* Designed and implemented error no-oping to conserve downstream TPS within the confines of our current system.

Implemented and renovated developer kit features that allows the customer to use normally discrete third-party software through our product via SOAP and REST web services, task-lead a team of 2 to redesign the authentication and user account features without a mentor, mentored a new-hire, trained several teammates including new contractors and higher-grade employees, worked extensively with our Pittsburgh office via travel and long-distance communication methods, collaborated with sub-contracting business Future Skies to complete goals, researched and trained myself in new technologies such as GWT and XSL, participated in Adobe Flex training

Managed and mentored a team (ranging from 5 to 10 people per year), successfully improved the overall quality of the team performances, recruited new members through demonstrations, informational booths, and personal contact via email and phone, organized extra practices outside of the mandatory schedule, collaborated with directors and other team leaders to brainstorm new show concepts and achieve performance goals, designed a manager manual to assist future section leaders, implemented and maintained equipment inventory, choreographed and taught new routines in time to meet rigorous deadlines, recipient of Director’s Award for Outstanding Leadership in 2008

Formulated and documented a strategy for upgrading third party plugins, collaborated with info designers and systems engineers to develop small-scope features, presented an overview of my work to peers and upper management from other business divisions, implemented defect fixes for various parts of the system

Executed test plans for the Command Post of the Future Project, collaborated with test teammates and developers to refine test cases, composed weekly status reports to team lead, drafted and submitted thorough bug reports, retested for reported bugs and adjusted reports as needed, maintained required testing environments for the entire team, trained new test teammates