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Stratus Softworks is a boutique software consultancy offering high-quality technical solutions to startups and small businesses, specializing in scalable software development, cloud engineering, and compliance for regulated industries.- Conducted discovery workshops with clients to translate business needs into actionable technical roadmaps, aligning development with long-term goals.- Developed robust monitoring and alerting systems to improve operational visibility and reduce downtime across multi-region deployments.- Established coding standards, infrastructure best practices, and PR processes for a startup’s engineering team, boosting productivity and code quality.- Delivered multi-region, multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with automated testing to ensure scalable and reliable software releases for client projects.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

• Decommissioned and migrated a legacy LLM prompt template management service, ensuring seamless functionality for downstream users and reducing technical debt.• Designed and implemented a comments summary feature for Confluence, enhancing collaboration by summarizing key points and addressing action items.

Payload was a SaaS platform designed for LLM prompt template management, offering tools for prompt creation, versioning, testing, and deployment. It enabled businesses to efficiently manage and optimize AI-driven workflows with secure and scalable solutions.- Built a SaaS platform for LLM prompt management, streamlining prompt creation, versioning, and deployment.- Designed a low-latency, multi-region API to fetch prompt templates with <20ms response times.- Developed a prompt testing suite for performance evaluation and iteration across multiple models.- Implemented a BYOK model for secure integration with customer LLM subscriptions (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic).- Delivered an intuitive interface for managing, tracking, and testing prompt workflows.- Established enterprise-grade security with role-based access control and key encryption.- Built user management with authentication and multi-tenancy for secure, scalable onboarding.- Implemented a multi-region, multi-stage CI/CD pipeline with automated integration testing to ensure reliability and scalability.- Conducted customer interviews to identify pain points, validate features, and prioritize product development.- Collaborated with early adopters to refine functionality and align the product roadmap with customer needs.- Designed for extensibility, enabling future SaaS integrations and expanded LLM compatibility.

Seattle, Wa, Us

- Authored a comprehensive design document for a customer account proxy service between Amazon and a major healthcare provider, overcoming initial resistance and saving 6 weeks of development time.- Developed and integrated signup, login, and account linking between External healthcare providers and Amazon, facilitating seamless customer access to healthcare services.- Led the launch of Amazon Pharmacy’s estimated insurance pricing validation service and authored operational standards, guidelines, and mechanisms, demonstrating effective leadership.- Developed Amazon Pharmacy's estimated insurance pricing validation service and infrastructure. Developed and led integration with a downstream consumer.- Developed an org-wide code as an infrastructure framework to enforce operational standards, reduce boilerplate code, and increase infrastructure development velocity by up to 4 weeks.- Guided a new team in implementing coding standards, code review mechanisms, SCRUM process, and infrastructure standards.- Actively supported operational excellence initiatives, identifying and addressing gaps in alarming and dashboarding, which resulted in significant operational and development hour savings.- Actively mentored junior engineers.

Seattle, Wa, Us

- Served as the engineering point of contact for a commercial pilot program, resolving technical issues. The pilot program generated approximately $100k in revenue.- Implemented infrastructure and integration tests for a new AWS SageMaker GroundTruth VPC feature.- Patched Log4J vulnerabilities in multiple Mechanical Turk legacy services.- Patched bugs in AWS SageMaker GroundTruth Plus worker task count feature.- Reduced the number of tickets in the on-call queue by approximately 600 tickets.- Participated in routine on-call rotation.- Mentored an intern who completed their project early, contributed to AWS SageMakerGroundTruth Plus prototype, and received a return offer.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

- Led a team that developed, delivered, and maintained various Node.js and Java solutions for several Global 100 clients.- Successfully launched full-stack product for Global 100 clients and internal teams.- Architected, developed, and delivered Node.js solution for Global 100 client that improved performance over the existing solution by ∼ 200x.- Improved the performance of an internal web application by 10x through refactoring algorithmicinefficiencies and SQL queries.- Developed micro-service in Node.js for an internal task processing system, leveraging existing services in the Google Cloud Platform such as App Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Cloud Scheduler, and Cloud Pub/Sub.- Developed scripts to automate workflows on various platforms (Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, etc.) utilizing the appropriate Google APIs.

Computer Science

Computer Science