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Seattle, WA, US

• Led the requirements, design, and development of several projects optimizing Amazon’s distribution and fulfillment network, building critical-tier distributed and full-stack software systems with Java, AWS, React, and.
• Navigated ambiguity in project requirements to build system architecture and API specifications, block diagrams, and documentation, ensuring system operability end to end within the design specifications.
• Leveraged cloud computing tools such as NoSQL via DynamoDB, serverless via Lambda, and workflow management systems.
• Ensured high quality through the implementation of automated integration, functional, performance, and unit testing suites, incorporating them into CI/CD pipelines.
• Created and delivered product demonstration videos and documentation for users and prospective customers.
• Reviewed, influenced, and challenged others’ system design decisions through design and code reviews.

Seattle, WA, US

• Developed and supported the gateway routing service for a multi-petabyte distributed datastore, supporting 90 million transactions-per-second and guaranteeing five 9s availability with single-digit millisecond latencies.
• Implemented a system to verify cache consistency across a distributed fleet of 1000+ hosts.
• Diagnosed a noisy-neighbor issue impacting customer latency by inspecting and analyzing CPU and heap dump profiles.
• Built mechanism to automatically identify and isolate slow clients to ensure high availability and support multi-tenancy.
• Led requirements, design, and planning discussions with stakeholders and principal engineers for a feature to capture operating costs per customer, significantly reducing scope so that only high-value features were.
• Developed operational systems and automated processes to migrate service from legacy hardware to AWS cloud systems.

La Jolla, CA, US

M.S. Computer Science with emphasis on Artificial Intelligence and RoboticsCourses: Robotics, Mathematics for Robotics, Algorithms, Principles of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Algorithms, Deep Learning with Artificial Neural Networks, Recommender Systems, Operating Systems, Networked Systems, Computer SecuritySelect Projects:Autonomous Mobile.

San Diego, CA, US

• Full-stack web application developer building back-end and front-end software in a micro-services architecture
• Developed a framework for integrating modules into new user-facing tool using C# for services and an Angular front-end
• Designed and developed a self-hosted OpenAPI documentation application with login and authentication using Node + Express backend with Swagger UI
• Designed and developed the REST APIs to incorporate new hardware devices on the platform
• Wrote unit and integration tests for new features, maintaining high quality through automatic deploymentTech stack:.NET, C#, Angular, Node, Express, MS SQL Server, REST APIs, RabbitMQ

Chicago, IL, US

• Responsible for managing company’s Financial Performance Management product offerings through all stages of the product life-cycle; from problem definition and business impact/value analysis, through product.
• Owned and managed the end-to-end product lifecycle for new products, features, and enhancements
• Led two international offshore development teams through 2 years of product releases, completing 1,000+ items
• Led the competitive, technical, and current capabilities research for development of new and existing technologies
• Unified the data model across product lines for improved system performance, scalability, and end user experience
• Architected the SQL database schema and designed the data visualizations for labor productivity solution

Chicago, IL, US

• Responsible for managing company’s Financial Performance Management product offerings through all stages of the product life-cycle; from problem definition and business impact/value analysis, through product.
• Re-designed the UX for end user’s workflow, resulting in a 400% increase in month-over-month user engagement
• Presented re-designed product at annual user conference, and have seen $2.7M to date in subscription renewals following presentation
• Delivered 25+ major features while serving as Product Owner for three agile scrum teams
• Reduced implementation build time from 6 weeks to 4 days by developing purpose-built pages

Chicago, IL, US

• Leading and managing the implementation and use of organizational decision analysis and decision-support software systems in integrated health systems and hospitals.
• Generated $150K in sales through client purchase of supplemental consulting services post-contract.

Chicago, IL, US

• Leading and managing the implementation and use of organizational decision analysis and decision-support software systems in integrated health systems and hospitals.
• Developed the Front- and Back-end components for modeling physician volumes, revenues, and compensations
• Reduced project management work time 80% by creating an automated project plan generation tool

Chicago, IL, US

• Leading and managing the implementation and use of organizational decision analysis and decision-support software systems in integrated health systems and hospitals.
• Implemented 30+ hospitals and health systems on the financial planning products

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, General Engineering (Systems Engineering And Design)