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Denver, Co, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Billing, Payments, Fraud and Authentication Team- Designed and lead the implementation of a 'usage billing system' which allowed new products to quickly define pricing information and release to the public, enabling quicker time to market. - Advocated for and spearheaded dedicating resources to further separate the billing and payment domain resulting in faster time to implement new features. -Took on ownership of engineering wide "Lunch and Learn" and increased presenter sign up rate by proactively asking engineers to present work or areas of expertise, contributing to a more collaborative engineering culture.

San Francisco, California, Us

Working primarily on backend in the billing, payments and fraud domain. We are actively pulling our domains functionality into microservices primarily using Python. Technologies:- Python, Golang, Javascript- AWS, DynamoDB, EKS- Kubernetes, Helm, Docker- Kafka- Terraform- PostgreSQL- New RelicHighlights:- Identified issues with billing system and formulated a plan for improvement that led to a 100x + increase in processing time.- Designed and coordinated system with multiple teams to improve our reconciliation process for FedEx which led to $100k+ in additional revenue per month and laid ground work for millions in recouped revenue. - Owned design and implementation of multiple microservices including our billing and payment services.- Actively helped steer team’s roadmap and project prioritization.- Learned and pioneered usage of NoSQL database (DynamoDB) for microservices. Gave presentation to the company around the topic and encourage other teams to adopt.- Served on team’s oncall rotation and dealt with various customer and service issues.- Facilitated conversations on improvements around team process including PR review cycle, sprint methodology and documentation.- Prioritized and solved issues that contributed to company wide service outtages, socialized these solutions to the rest of the company.- Identified and automated multiple manual workflows that allow engineers and customer support to work significantly quicker.- Volunteered myself as the maintainer of an important alerting + monitoring tool, enabling application database data to be monitored over time for consistency. - Evaluated 3rd party vendors to help improve and offload some of our billing needs.

San Francisco, California, Us

Currently a member of the Billing team handling billing, payments, promo codes and other areas of our codebase. Largely focused on backend development using Python and Golang. Leading the implementation of one of the first microservices at Shippo using Golang.Tools and Tech I'm using:- Golang- Python- AWS- K8s, Docker, Helm- PostgreSQL- Looker, SumoLogic, Mode

San Francisco, California, Us

Engineer on the Billing, Payments and Fraud team. - Lead the development of several admin tool improvements that reduced inbound requests to our team and allowed customer support to self-serve, freeing up valuable engineering resources.- Spearheaded the implementation of granular billing schedule controls, allowing more customizability for large partners to be billed at the cadence they preferred.- Pivoted and found quick ways to implement fraud prevention features during peak spikes, including limiting the amount of times a specific card can be added to a user account.- Served as a part of team oncall rotation, surfacing recurring issues to team.

Electrical And Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering

Computer Engineering