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Home shopping, Purchase, and Cash OfferJoined as a Senior Engineer on the team that built the core purchase journey experience for home buyers to shop for a home with the focus on backend services. Major cross-department efforts in integrating the Real Estate Agent experience with real-time event-streaming using Kafka.Transitioned to engineering lead to build out the Cash Offer program which lets buyers outcompete other buyers in purchasing a home with all-cash. The effort included experimentation, onboarding, financial eligibility and verification. Primary technologies include TypeScript, GraphQL, Node.js / Express.js, KafkaBetter.com

Rocketrip is a SaaS technology start-up (backed by Google Ventures & Bessemer, acquired by Mondee in Sept. 2020) that incentivizes behavior change by rewarding travelers for saving money on business travel.Led Rocketrip’s Travel Manager Squad (ie. Data Squad) and responsible for the Booking & Receipt Ingestion Process, Budget Automation, Expenses and Insights Reporting and Visualization. Responsibilities was as team lead and senior developer capacity that includes technical direction, coding, task definition, sprint process and ceremonies, team management, and deep cross-team collaboration with DevOps, Product and Data Analytics teams. Reported directly to the CTO.Primarily used Python, MySQL, Django, Redis, RabbitMQ, with AWS EC2/S3/RDS/EKS. Major initiatives:. Insights Data Backend re-architecture to a reliable, real-time reporting process. Trusted Data Quality initiative in collaboration with the Data Analytics team to define and normalize reporting data. Historical Data Process and Reporting that ingested multiple years of travel data and building visualizations to externally expose to clients. MySQL DB upgrade including test plans, migration across testing to production environments. Various ground-up Engineering-Product POCs and other experimentationAcquired by Mondee in September 2020rocketrip.com

Built the Channel Incentives product and promotion payment engine that provides the ability to launch highly targeted partner incentive promotions and encourage brand loyalty with rewards, games and communications. Work included building out workflow management, bulk payouts tools and analytics.Regularly presented deliverables directly to the CEO and the executive team.

Built highly-configurable customer-facing tools to administer monetary rewards and manage engagement for employees.

Software developer at Securian Financial within the Group Insurance division that supports over 15 million customers. Built out a distributed, service-oriented application to administer claims and payments that processed over $100k in claims per day.

Engineer on the Profile and Security team that owns all client employee data. Responsibilities included implementing client reporting, database support, custom batch job processing, and ETL services

Development of the Thomson Reuters' Westlaw product which provides online legal research database for lawyers and legal professionals in the US and UK.