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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Redmond, Washington, United States

Azure App Service - Airgapped Cloud Engineer- Reducing COGS by $150M/yr by pursuing hackathon project using machine learning to predict VM scaling- Speed up telemetry velocity by 400% on multiple teams across the service as a response to recent outages by consolidating existing metrics infrastructure, creating a uniform path for new metrics, and teaching metrics- Enhanced development velocity and observability by simplifying and modernizing the creation and modification of logs, leading to increased adoption and code quality improvements- 24/7 on-call for two air gapped clouds for 2 weeks at a time, ensuring rapid incident response in a uniquely challenging environment- Improved uptime by 7x of a critical internal alerting and auto-mitigation platform by in air gapped clouds by designing and implementing a robust system for continuous monitoring/ alerting of dependency downtime- Reduced developer errors by 4x in modifying complex XML-based service configuration by creating a tool developers could use to parse this configuration in a performant manner

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

- Reduced human intervention by 96% and improve average processing time from days to minutes by leading scalable cloud ML/ machine vision project which automated a mission-critical document submission process- Increased development team’s efficiency by establishing TDD w/ code coverage analysis, unit tests, and E2E tests

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

- Managed 3 direct reports at a dynamic music-based social media startup and set company development strategy- Designed custom API call caching strategy using cache-aside pattern and Redis to reduce account creation times by 90%- Recruited and directed a team of four software developers, adopting Agile methodologies to streamline project management, coordinated bi-weekly sprints, and implemented a robust CI/CD pipeline

- Designed foundation for an ISO 9001 Quality Management System- Downloaded loader filed to generator monitors, verified serial output, and tested units before shipping- Learned corporate document control/ revision procedures

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science, 3.95 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Android Development Club, Millionaires in Training, HackGT 2019Threads: Information Internetworks, Intelligence

High School Diploma, 4.0 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Eagle Scout, Commencement Speaker, AP Scholar w/ Distinction, Beta Club, FIRST Robotics, Varsity Football, Total.