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San Francisco, California, US

Backend engineer on Performance Architecture team, focused on application performance and scale.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Backend-focused role on Platform Applications team maintaining and designing platform systems in a cloud-native, multi-tenant, PHI-sensitive SaaS application.
• Maintainer and lead developer for user and tenant management API used across all products, providing source- of-truth for user-tenant memberships, roles, permissioning, and user metadata.
• Login subject-matter expert, defining business rules for user sessions, secure usage of JWT, and integrating the authentication workflow with SSO providers (SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0).
• Designing and prototyping the next-generation authentication infrastructure to replace current system.
• Rewrote the primary authn/authz library to add Python3 compatibility, remove blocking legacy dependencies, and fix security design flaws without breaking top-level API promises to achieve a fast-paced upgrade timeline.
• Transitioned the user-tenant management app from open-access to least-privilege to fulfill SOC2 auditing requirements.

Lincolnshire, IL, US

• Multi-disciplinary role as software engineer, Linux sysadmin, and security design reviewer on the Engineering Validation Test team. Pioneered a new department identity by adopting SaaS concepts into test workflow and.
• Architect and lead developer for full-stack, event-driven CI infrastructure and API to allow engineering teams programmatic access to automated hardware test tools. (“Test Hardware as a Service”)
• Deployed and managed internal team apps and developer tools to maximize test automation and productivity.
• Lead test engineer for multiple product releases.
• Designed rigorous test strategies, procedures, and tools to speed up product development.
• Assessed security impact of new firmware and cloud product features.

Kingston, RI, US

• Acting IT department head during time as student, responsible for the smooth technological operation of a multi-million dollar auxiliary unit at the University of Rhode Island and the efficient allocation of student IT.
• Maintained department infrastructure, including bare-metal servers, workstations,VM hosts,VM guests, network attached printers, digital signs, and laundry controllers.
• Deployed a complete redesign of the department’s Windows domain.
• Lead hiring and interview process of new IT employees.

Berlin, DE

• Internship during year abroad analyzing OBDII emission data. Significantly improved database query performance (in some cases by up to two orders of magnitude).
• Optimized database tools and queries for a dataset containing thousands of automotive tests.
• Analyzed OBDII data for patterns as defined by senior engineers.