Back End Team Lead
Current· Led a team of platform engineers who designed and implemented solutions for new product features, customer requests, and internal tools to help achieve our business goals.· Set a platform vision outlining 1, 2, and 5-year milestones. This vision guided our architecture, fostered alignment, and allowed us to ensure our platform scaled to match business needs.· Tracked changes to third-party APIs such as the Meta Graph API, X/Twitter API, and more to ensure that we stayed up to date with the latest versions.· Established team and platform standards for testing, code quality, and uptime by integrating tools like · Sonarqube and Datadog increasing our deployment frequency to 4-6 times per week and achieving a platform uptime of 99.999%.· Implemented weekly Paired Programming sessions for all team members that fostered a collaborative remote work environment that increased team morale and improved productivity by 20%. · Successfully decreased monthly expenditure with third-party tools like AWS and Datadog by 10-15% by participating in contract negotiations and implementing cost-saving efficiencies and best practices.· Collaborated with executives and external team leaders to establish key performance metrics for evaluating company success. These metrics informed feature prioritization and provided insights into the company's overall health.· Conducted regular performance evaluations to provide timely and constructive feedback to team members. Worked with employees to identify growth opportunities and projects to align with their goals that prepared them for promotion and skill improvement.· Architected and managed the release of key projects, including transitioning from a Rails monolith to Golang microservices architecture and integrated event-driven systems using Kinesis and DynamoDB
