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Greater Denver Area

- Developed team roadmap projects in conjunction with cross-functional partners, assisting in identifying opportunities, requirements discovery, initial designs, and scoping for team’s projects.- Identified and led a product opportunity to allow sending invitations (to be background checked) via SMS in addition to email, improving conversion by 4%.- Drafted numerous RFCs (requests for comments), design docs, and post mortem documents to communicate technical issues around the engineering organization.- Technical lead on Checkr’s first A/B tested product initiative, to improve completion rate of background check candidate acquisition funnel by X%, by improving candidate transactional communications (emails and SMS).- Provided technical direction and oversight of email / sms communication microservice to engineers around the company.- Solo ‘AI Hack Week’ project to use a new, inexpensive SaaS tool to detect if an uploaded driver’s license image has the necessary info (avoiding user round trips with operations teams) was featured at a company all hands.

Denver, Colorado, United States

- Led team to extract a microservice from monolith for indexing and complex queries of customer data; researched and implemented query performance improvements reducing median query latency by 75%.- Developed shared API behavior to API Gateway, allowing microservices to opt in to configurable standards for authentication, authorization, logging, and rate-limiting via Kong ingress configuration in Helm.- Provided technical direction and oversight of email / sms communication microservice to engineers around the company.- Bootstrapped several microservices to Gitlab source code repository / deployment system, and consulted for other teams in making the same migration.

Westminster, Co

- Refactored and modernized integration testing suite, allowing tests to be run in parallel.- Created subscription-based authorization system to allow detailed access control for platform assets, replacing legacy tool for task sharing without customer disruption.- Added new event types to the BI / analytics data warehouse. - Ported legacy microservices to the AWS Serverless infrastructure pattern, and from Python 2 to Python 3..

Denver, Colorado, United States

- Led backend engineering team (1-4 engineers) for The Elder Scrolls: Legends from concept phase to live service game. In collaboration with other disciplines on the project, defined requirements, estimates, and planned features, and managed team members in completing tasks. - Implemented backend server features such as matchmaking, managing user’s collection, and in game chat and notifications. Integrated 3rd party APIs for in-game store and metrics collection.- Created DSL to represent in-game actions and used DSL to script game pieces and scripted events.- Developed ‘AI’ opponent in close collaboration with game designers and implemented scripted AI for single player game modes.- Reused, refactored, and extended core libraries to share game features across multiple titles at the studio.

Aurora, Colorado, United States

- Developed suite of integration test data and scripts for satellite telemetry decommutation software to test novel integrations of shared software.- Consulted on ClearCase / ClearQuest implementations on projects across the campus.- Work on a team to facilitate 5 flawless software installations at customer sites.- Established and maintained TS/SCI security clearance.