Founding engineer / lead backend engineer at Sticky.app, an AI-powered assistant for meetings.Architected Backend Platform: Played a key role in the collaborative design and development of the backend platform, focusing on scalable and efficient event-driven microservices architecture.Microservices Best Practices: Established and promoted best practices for designing, building, and testing microservices, ensuring streamlined development processes.API and Service Design and Implementation: Led the design and implementation of REST APIs and services, crucial for the app's functionality and user interface. Developed Java and Typescript microservices, using the Spring Boot and NestJS frameworks, running on Kubernetes. Leveraged Kafka for event-driven workflows.CI/CD Pipeline Development: Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines and enforced modern DevOps best practices, allowing us to have a dependable continuous deployment release model.Infrastructure Management on GCP: Oversaw all system infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.System Observability: Implemented and utilized tools such as Datadog and Sentry for comprehensive system observability, enabling prompt issue detection and resolution. Helped establish incident management and response playbooks. Technology Evaluation: Conducted evaluations of technologies and third-party integrations, optimizing the performance, reliability, and cost.Scrum: Scoped work and steered a scrum team towards timely and successful project completions, fostering a collaborative and productive environment.AI: Utilized LLMs to build classification and content generation pipelines. Implemented natural language search solutions using OpenAI embedding models and vector databases (Milvas).

• Architecture and development of the Nike Sports Research Platform, a series of REST APIs and services supporting the collection, analysis, and delivery of product and athlete sport research data.• Architecture and development of a data lake solution, and supporting pipelines, for use by data scientists looking to analyze data collected during NSRL studies. • Development of applications for researchers and data scientists that facilitate data collection, scheduling, and study lifecycle management.• Successfully led effort to modernize Nike Innovation CI/CD pipelines and practices through adoption of Nike enterprise tools and standards.• Managed and maintain Nike Innovation AWS accounts and infrastructure.• Architecture of AWS ECS infrastructure solution for Nike Innovation applications and APIs, which decreased average deployment time by over 1000% and improved application stability and observability. • Architecture and development an electronic consent system, which removed the need for physical consent forms and made possible the discovery of data in terms of the consent covering its collection. • Assisting of junior engineers with technical development; couching/teaching researchers how to use python and cloud tools like SageMaker or EMR.

Unifusion – Marketing Reporting and Content Measurement Dashboard• Lead product discovery and development of a B2B SaaS digital marketing product.• Architected and developed REST APIs and microservices that delivered analytical and observational information on millions of webpages.• Developed ETL jobs for ingesting 3rd-party marketing analytics data from companies like Google and Facebook• Developed scalable architectures on AWS for housing analytics and content marketing data.

• Developed in-house marketing tools and dashboards that helped improve client retention.• Developed webcrawlers used to collect and store webpage SEO information.• Architected and developed automated PDF report generator application that allowed account managers to produce visually appealing graphical reports for their clients. • Assisted in the design and development of web and iOS applications for clients. • Assisted in the architecture and maintenance of hosting solutions on AWS and Rackspace. Helped lead migration from Rackspace to AWS.

Computer science research on human approaches to problem solving.

Psychology Research on testing effect and memory for faces

Microbiology research on Phosphorodiamidate Morpholino Oligomers and the Avian Bird Flu