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Boise, Id, Us

Boise, Id, Us

-- Developed a robust government application capable of ingesting over 4TB of data each month, facilitating efficient data management, and ensuring a fast UX through data interactions.-- Migrated on-premises infrastructure and 2 critical applications to the AWS Government Cloud, reducing operational costs by over $50K and ensuring a more scalable and compliant production environment.-- Enhanced the security of production government applications by implementing modern JWT based authentication with identity, role, and permission access control and authorization.-- Modernized the government systems by optimizing data processing, resulting in improved efficiency, cost savings, and enhanced security for critical applications within AWS GovCloud.

-- Directed the design and development of a robust data pipeline and ETL architecture from scratch, effectively scaling the system from 10GB to 3TB of data, ensuring seamless customer onboarding.-- Established internal frameworks, design patterns, and best practices that improved code quality and production environment stability, resulting in high customer satisfaction and reduced churn.-- Implemented an innovative parallel serverless pipeline to optimize data processing in ETL workflows, resulting in a substantial reduction in processing time by 60% and improved system efficiency.-- Led a cross-functional team of engineers to migrate the initial platform from AWS to Vercel + Supabase, creating a self-serve frontend to facilitate faster customer onboarding.

-- Drove initiatives to enhance platform stability, reliability, and performance by taking the lead in identifying and addressing critical issues and bottlenecks.-- Managed and developed an ephemeral load testing tool, which simulated the activity of over 50k users on the platform, allowing for the systematic assessment of system performance and stress resilience.-- Utilized the custom load testing system to identify bottlenecks within the platform, optimizing code and infrastructure on the backend and frontend, and achieving breakthrough performance improvements.-- Implemented key frontend features to improve customer experience and drive growth, including face detection, automatic camera placement, and internal chat and messaging.

Member of an agency, assigned different projects as customer and contract needs changed over time.First American Project-- Managed and developed the initial customer contract, building an internal dashboard system, executing on delivery, and growing the initial contract from $300k to $10M, adding 8 engineers and 3 projects.-- Developed a secure internal identity service used company wide, helped other teams onboard, integrate, and implement the new standard identity service and authentication design.-- Led a team of 4 in the development of a secure dynamic legal document generation service, establishing the team as a standard-bearer for platform excellence within the organization.Zenimax Project -- Managed the preparation of 3 essential gaming service APIs to be launched during a worldwide game release by systematically testing, finding bottlenecks, designing solutions, and iterating.-- Spearheaded a significant performance boost by redesigning a key WebSocket server, resulting in a 10x increase in capacity and connection efficiency.Experian Project-- Directed and continuously developed a critical tier 2 public service within the Experian platform, responsible for the handling of user data, ensuring its integrity and resilient availability.-- Enhanced the platform's testing capabilities by creating an automated integration testing suite, improving reliability in the deployment process, and production stability.

Employed at an agency, working as an integrated part of the client's team.OpenFit-- Owned and optimized a comprehensive suite of serverless functions comprising the video streaming service for OpenFit, an on-demand workout streaming platform.-- Implemented enhancements and caching strategies, resulting in a remarkable reduction of p99 response times from approximately 1,200 ms to around 600 ms, vastly improving user experience.-- Rewrote the front-end video player, optimizing its performance, introducing comprehensive testing, ensuring its reliability and smooth functionality for end-users.

-- Designed and developed 7 custom real estate websites with blogs, home listings, and mobile applications, enhancing their online presence and customer engagement.-- Led the team to design and implement an internal multi-tenant real estate data platform, allowing for much faster custom site creation for customers and less time spent maintaining unique sites.