Designed and maintained subsystems for multi-tenant Go platform, leveraging Kafka and Redpanda to deliver high-throughput, event-driven systems. Managed PostgreSQL schemas via ent and deployed microservices in Kubernetes to ensure scalability and resilience in our infrastructure. Focused on optimizing system performance, building distributed architectures, and ensuring reliability at scale, all while supporting the company’s rapid growth. I also collaborated cross-functionally to drive technical excellence, which contributed directly to our successful acquisition by Apex Fintech Solutions.Key Achievements:- Led design & implementation of systems integrations with third-party APIs, building flexible components allowing Fintron to interact with multiple Clearing Houses with minimal configuration and ramp-up time.- Provided 1:1 engineer support for external clients as they on-boarded to our SDK.- Defined technical requirements & provided support for a team of 6 contracted engineers to deliver high-value client integrations.- Integrated with AWS Cognito to provide SSO to clients, enabling their existing users to seamlessly join our platform.

Utilized systems analysis, design patterns and outcome-driven development to provide distributed high-availability, high-traffic identity services deployed on AWS, Azure and GCP infrastructure for industry-leading globally available APM, logging and security SAAS products. Liaised with partner teams to resolve cross-team dependencies and reduce friction during development of new services and deliver outcomes on-time.Key Achievements:- Designed & deployed golang-based gRPC service for securing & proxying session data across multiple datacenters, managing session data for hundreds of thousands of daily active users.- Improved availability of critical login workflow by removing external dependencies, and reducing P99 latency by 50%- Led efforts to improve developer on-call experience by creating and tuning monitors for essential services, authoring runbooks and generating synthetic tests to proactively alert on-call engineers in case of outage.- Proxied writes to user tables through a single gRPC service, securing critical user data against unauthorized changes.- Ensured five-nines uptime of services through system analysis, refactoring and redesign.

Drove engineering decisions through encouraging up-front design & application of appropriate design patterns leveraging React, Ruby on Rails, Redis & Sidekiq for HR Information Systems and Growth teams. Paired with & coached junior Software Engineers on best practices and identifying code optimizations. Identified system-wide inefficiencies, propose & implement solutions where appropriate.Key Achievements:- Refactored Two-Factor authentication system for testability; led team responsible for adding voice as a 2FA method.- Led efforts to re-architect code surrounding End-of-Year tasks, resulting in 100% test coverage of code & improved maintainability through application of design patterns such as Strategy, Repository and State.- Established a two-week retrospective cadence, leading to improved team morale and code quality practices.- Authored multiple internal RFCs leading to improved use of single-responsibility principle & open-closed principle.- Founding member / inaugural Lead of On-boarding & Training Working Group, responsible for a data-driven approach toward more effective on-boarding practices for new hires.- Drove technical decisions & mentored team through modularization of internal domain service, enabling engineers to tune business rules & build a scalable system enabling Ops team to reduce error states by 80% quarter-over-quarter

Conduct technical interviews for third party clients. Evaluate candidates based on language-agnostic technical questions, based on code clarity / quality, communication skills & code analysis skills.

Designed API endpoints using Laravel PHP framework for consumption by internal and external microservices; conducted regular code review sessions; wrote & verified automated unit and integration tests; streamlined git workflows within team; participated in multiple hackathon sessions; implemented new features and designs on WeWork iOS app using Swift.Key Achievements:- Took ownership of QR code/Apple Wallet Pass feature which reduced guest check-in times from 50-60 seconds down to 10-20 seconds- Transitioned 18-person development team from haphazard process to using Agile practices.- Spearheaded efforts to spread Agile practices across technology department within WeWork

Maintained high-traffic travel review websites (cruisecritic.com, familyvacationcritic.com, and independenttraveler.com), working alongside a team of 12 other software engineers. Key Achievements:- Subject matter expert on RESTful API development for Cruise Critic. - Spearheaded efforts to implement Scrum/Agile practices.- Primary engineer responsible for front-end coding and back-end engineering of new and redesigned landing pages for high-traffic sections (Reviews and Community) of Cruise Critic website.

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Enhanced online sales tool by incorporating PHP functionality for generating PDF files. Consult with clients and management to gather requirements for new features and updates, and drive research and development of new technologies and objects to boost team productivity, reduce development time, and improve software performance.Key Achievement:- Developed easy-to-use text comparison tool that automated previously manual process, slashing file comparison time from up to 60 minutes per file to 3 minutes maximum.

Develop modules in Fuel PHP framework for social network-driven advertising website in an Agile/Scrum development environment.

Held senior-level management responsibility for production and ongoing support of the company’s most client-visible tool. Worked with the executive design team to gather and evaluate requirements, oversaw development schedules and tasks, and demonstrated product prototypes to clients. Key Achievements:- As company’s first Software Development Director, established and implemented all development processes- Adapted quickly to unfamiliar industry; obtained understanding of necessary procedures and terminology to begin design of functional application within one month of hire.- Delivered a scalable, real-time insurance management product (PHP).

Leveraged expertise to support creation of cutting-edge applications for a variety of high-profile customers. Designed, analyzed, and implemented software test cases to ensure quality control of product release. Maintained software post-release. Key Achievements: - Contributed to development of visualization module as Lead Programmer (Java)- Designed and integrated modules for Version 9 release of Drafting Libraries- Developed, coded, and tested backward-compatible encryption system (C++)- Improved team productivity by creating ColdFusion components that streamlined common operations such as email, DB queries, and HTML formatting.