Rory James Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

San Jose, California, United States

PayPal Commerce Platform (in Checkouts Domain)▪ Accelerated issue resolution speed by 83% for 92 engineers by building and deploying a root-cause analysis tool and consulting engineering stakeholders to tailor the tool to their needs ▪ Enhanced observability and pinpointing of issues in a distributed system by sourcing data from 20+ production services via centralized logging infrastructure despite challenges with the integration process▪ Developed an algorithm to construct a dynamic representation of a given order's lifecycle despite highly variable parameters▪ Mitigated high latency by setting up caching and proposing SQL query optimizations▪ Spearheaded technical excellence by writing 54 unit tests, 5 functional tests, and refactoring components▪ Prepared 1100 words of technical documentation including data-flow and state diagrams

Austin, Texas, United States

▪ Saved 86 labor hours by writing code to transform and analyze raw monitoring data to identify 139 unused API endpoints▪ Enabled reporting by designing and building a reliable RESTful API with 12 integration tests and error handling▪ Migrated API documentation that will be used by 59 engineers by writing 41 integration tests to validate endpoint specs with upwards of 155 attributes▪ Configured data transformation for a data pipeline to enable expansion of downstream data analytics▪ Attended meetings with engineers and technology leaders to plan the decomposition of a monolithic architecture into microservice

▪ Collaborated to build an E2E implementation of a SaaS for dataset annotation, generation, and exchange▪ Contributed to a collective effort enabling $10,000 in funding, $6,000 in signed LOIs, and acceptance to 3 startup incubators▪ Implemented transport, data access, and business logic for various API endpoints▪ Created database indexes and wrote complex MongoDB queries with joins to speed up data access and reduce round-trips by 60%▪ Assisted in designing database entities and references to align with startup goals and business domain▪ Enhanced reliability by introducing automated testing and personally writing 29 automated tests▪ Prioritized maintainability by decomposing the 196-module application server into 12 subdomains and 3 layers of concern

Austin, Texas, United States

▪Work closely with startup founder to build out the next iteration of the EdWorldo platform and chrome extension.▪Styled UI components utilizing SCSS variables, partials, inheritance, and nesting. ▪Developed business logic for student-view question components.▪Designed and implemented a UI to display assignments and assignment information.

Southlake, Texas, United States