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Pleasanton, California, Us

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

· Led the Developer Experience and Platform Quality Engineering teams, which were focused on building an internal platform to increase self-service, standardization, and ownership across Product and Engineering teams· Responsible for strategic and tactical planning across both teams (i.e. Engineering, Product, and Project manager responsibilities)· Reduced Lead Time for Changes by 50% and increased both Deployment Rate and Deployment Ownership by 60% across Product and Engineering teams· Created a psychologically safe team environment focused on fostering mastery, autonomy, and purpose· Introduced Backstage as the foundation for our Developer Experience platform to improve standardization, discoverability, and self-service· Created the foundation for a cloud-native quality platform that centralized test orchestration and reporting across services· Built self-service ephemeral environments to provide lightweight, turnkey environments for development and testing.· Managed CI/CD pipelines and deployments onto Kubernetes/GCP with an emphasis on GitOps principles and canary releases· Oversaw the decoupling of the company’s primary monolithic frontend application into independently deployable, containerized components

· Responsible for the people, products, and processes of the company’s highly distributed event-streaming platform for centrally ingesting, moving, and consuming data shared across products and providing it for Big Data analysis. Platform provides a single integration point for shared data across an extended product portfolio in near real-time.· Delivered the platform from ideation, to beta, to controlled rollout. The platform supports thousands of companies and multiple products, including the integration between the two primary products of the newly merged companies· Led the first team in the company to deploy to Kubernetes & GCP· Delivered a GDPR & CCPA compliant privacy management solution that provided tenant-level self-service solutions to over a dozen products within a 6 month deliverable· Responsible for a team comprised of multiple independent cells consisting of 16 full-time engineers and 10 offshore contractors with both direct and in-direct reports· Created a team culture focused on employee growth and engagement· Tech Stack: Kafka, Kotlin, Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB, MySQL, MuleSoft, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP

Weston, Fl, Us

Weston, Fl, Us

· Worked as BackEnd & DevOps Engineer to create a data-store for shared data to aid in decoupling product offerings (Tech Stack: Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kafka, MongoDB)· Helped create and maintain a continuous integration pipeline with continuous deployments to Kubernetes· Lead and organize team meetings, facilitate communication, fine-tune processes, prioritize and delegate work, and build strong relationships with teammates

Weston, Fl, Us

· Worked as full-stack engineer in developing the Onboarding web application (Tech Stack: C#, Knockout JS, MongoDB, RabbitMQ)· Upgraded SSO to OAuth2 flow, improved cross-app eventing architecture, and expanded the app’s APIs· Maintain continuous integration pipeline, aid in biweekly deployments· Worked alongside business analysts and support team to help resolve customer escalations· Won 2nd place in company's Code Jam programming competition

Weston, Fl, Us

• Lead in the design and creation of a new C# based automated testing framework that merges the two testing frameworks for the main cloud-based and Windows-based products• Responsible for the launch and maintenance of team's continuous integration tests and creation of automated tests• Won "Most Creative" award and 2nd overall out of 18 teams in 48 Hour team software competition by designing a more user-friendly feedback feature for company’s main product

New York, Ny, Us

• Taught Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra II, Pre-calculus and AP Computer Science to low-income students at Miami Norland Senior High School• Improved the school’s Algebra 1 State Exam passing rate from 14% in previous year to 73% for my students in my first year and 81% in my second year• Achieved 100% passing rate for honors students on the Geometry and Algebra II state exams• Performed in the top 95 percentile each year among teachers in average increase in students’ math proficiency• Engineered student assessment trackers for the math department that break down student proficiency across math benchmarks to provide targeted remediation of deficient skills• Designed and taught two original courses in Algebra II and Pre-calculus that have resulted in record numbers of students in high-level math courses• Led school’s math club, preparing top math students for challenging local competitions

• Helped form a for-profit apparel company that sells color-coded products associated with social issues and distributes proceeds from sales to organizations that address those causes • Responsible for market/industry research and product design for sustainably manufactured clothing • Won Yoxi’s “Trim the Waste of Fashion” competition for social innovation in the clothing industry in 2011

Masters In Computer Science, Machine Learning

Bs, Economics, Pre-Medical Track

Bachelor Of Science In Computer Science, Computer Science

Minor In Entrepreneurship