Founding member of the technical engineering staff at Ambar. My core role has been to build a robust and dynamic backend system to manage, monitor and maintain customer infrastructure while providing an easy to use interface.

• Represented team and company at Current 22 Conference, presenting on lessons learned from operating thousands of Apache Kafka deployments• Lead design and Implementation of critical path for scalable workflow for modifying compute of customer clusters while maintaining availability of the cluster.• Worked on scalable workflow for upgrading customers clusters Apache Kafka version while maintaining availability of the cluster.• Helped define • Identified architectural scaling vulnerabilities of service, resolving major operational risks.• Triaged critical system risks and participated in ops rotations to increase system stability and serviceability.• Mentored junior and intern engineers providing guidance on tasks and smooth onboarding experience.• Lead and participated in round table systems design reviews for major feature improvements ensuring team feature understanding and early risk identifications.• Involved in requirement gathering, prototype, feasibility study, task breakdown and estimation of new projects and features.• Design, develop, test, deploy, release and maintain new features.• Bug fixes, code reviews of peers, documentation.• Operational Work - Pager duty to attend service issues, ticket creation, prioritization, root causing, and resolution.• Agile development - Sprint planning, review and retrospection.• Hiring, mentoring and Knowledge transfers.

• Worked on feature to enable customers to share pre-made machine images with one another while restricting permissions given• Integrated AWS services for a more seamless customer experience within AWS.• Filled in security gaps, and modified service auth to allow for fine grained policy control of resources• Participated in ops duties including debugging and mitigating large impact events on our systems.• Assisted in training and onboarding new employees and writing documentation to support them in their first weeks and months• Took ownership of service host security patching, and creating SOP for maintaining SLA for patching responsibilities• Involved in requirement gathering, prototype, feasibility study, task breakdown and estimation of new projects and features.• Design, develop, test, deploy, release and maintain new features.• Bug fixes, code reviews of peers, documentation.• Operational Work - Pager duty to attend service issues, ticket creation, prioritization and solving.• Agile development- Sprint planning, review and retrospection.• Hiring, mentoring and Knowledge transfers

• Developed data ingestion tool for use as part of acceptance testing• Helped expand and build test framework as part of increasing test coverage• Researched existing tools for testing databases systems and potential value gains from their use• Participated in 2-week sprint cycle to break down tasks into smaller deliverable goals

• Worked full time on embedded systems alongside professional embedded engineers• Created continuous integration build System using Jenkins, Robot, and Python• Set up system for automated testing on U-Boot repository• Researched and implemented Freescale Secure Boot technologies in U-Boot for PowerPC• Helped troubleshoot and review code to be added to repository

• Software development working 20+ hours a week alongside full class schedule, fulltime in summers• Contractor for Thomson Reuters, working on current production products alongside lead developers• Updated legacy code to new MVC5 formats, making product more modern• Participated in agile standup meetings discussing future work for projects and what developers were working on• Communicated with team daily on current progress and any pain points, participating in meetings as needed• Researched and implemented new technologies that had potential use and application in our product