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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 many internal services.• 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.• Participated in 24/7 on-call rotation for multiple Tier-1 services.• Resolved critical issues impacting system performance and customer experience, unblocking high profile projects with multi-million-dollar entitlements.• Optimized performance by diagnosing and fixing issues such as CPU hogs, memory leaks, disk leaks.• Led meetings with senior engineers and management, driving operational improvements and incident resolution strategies.• Created and drove campaign to deprecate use of legacy services across 20 teams’ services.• Interviewed, onboarded, and mentored new hires and summer interns.

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 prioritized and implemented.• Developed operational systems and automated processes to migrate service from legacy hardware to AWS cloud systems.• Led first-ever chaos testing for our service on a live production environment, simulating dependency outages and verifying the application's resiliency through such outages.• Diagnosed and fixed an ongoing CPU leak in website service, improving service availability and lowering CPU requirements.

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 Robot – Designed and implemented the brains for a mobile robotic vehicle, including sensing, planning, navigation, SLAM, and control systems for action in various environments. Coded with Python and OpenCV.Object Detection in Images – Implemented a custom deep-learning CNN system in Caffe2 on AWS for BrandYourself.com, capable of detecting localized objects of interest in images, achieving higher accuracy and faster inference than their current production model. Built a testing harness and a foundation for continuous data integration from their database.Machine-composed Music - Constructed an RNN using PyTorch to generate new music by training on real musical numbers. Incorporated LSTM layers for learning information about song structure, musical measures, and required headers.Recommender System - Using collaborative filtering techniques, built a recommender system to suggest places for a user to visit, and a predictor to model whether the user will visit a place in the future.DropBlox – Built the server and client for a Dropbox-inspired data block storage and retrieval service, using Java and gRPC.HTTP Server – Developed a simple HTTP server in C++, leveraging the Sockets API.Bike Share Route Planner - Developed a standalone web application using open bikeshare data and the Google Maps API to plan a route between two points. Leverages AJAX and JavaScript Promises.

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 development, launch, and optimization.• 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• Captured $2M in untapped revenue through launch and rollout of said 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 development, launch, and optimization.• 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)