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Boston, Ma, Us

Evolving the menus system as part of Menus Core Services to support the future of Food for Work

Ottawa, On, Ca

- Maintained the geographically distributed Cart Ajax API (REST API) and Cart Storefront API (GraphQL API) used by first-party and third-party developers to build interactive storefronts and apps for merchants across the planet- Reviewed technical designs, RFCs, and pull requests from senior and junior engineers- Resolved production issues for high GMV merchants while maintaining high reliability and resiliency across a planet-scale checkout and storefront platform in the world's largest monolithic Rails app- Dug deeply into logs and observability tooling to debug and troubleshoot production issues

Remote, Us

- Created and championed the team’s Engineering Principles alongside other staff engineers- Revamped the interview process to boost and improve signals and feedback while recruiting and interviewing Engineering talent- Led the new Accounting Systems team of 6+ engineers focused on building, extending, and maintaining integrations with ERP systems- Crafted a technical vision to build accounting integrations on a set of evolvable common models to improve rapid development, simplify maintenance, and manage complexity- Reviewed technical designs, RFCs, and project plans for Accounting Systems, along with team pull requests- Promoted writing and documentation-driven technical planning and design for Engineering- Optimized database queries using batching, upserting, analyzing query plans, and using observability and application performance monitoring tools to detect slow queries- Designed and built accounting integrations relying on Sidekiq for high resilience and performance for syncing large batches of accounting data

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- Partnered with Product Managers and other cross-functional partners to prioritize roadmaps and projects to provide the greatest client and organizational impact- Led projects through all phases of development (discovery, planning, implementation, and support) by partnering with the Product Managers, Data Scientists, and other cross-functional business partners- Mentored other engineers and work with them to build and maintain reliable and resilient federated GraphQL APIs, REST APIs, and React frontends across multiple domains- Collaborated with engineers using schema-first design principles to design GraphQL and REST APIs for Rails microservices with various API clients, including mobile apps and React apps- Designed, scaled, and maintained multiple Rails microservices integrated with REST APIs, RPC, and message queues, and utilizing Redis for caching- Gradually decomposed a monolithic Rails app into Rails microservices- Performed major architectural refactors to REST and GraphQL APIs with zero downtime

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

- Full-stack development with Ruby on Rails- Adding new features and resolving bugs with the Campus product's Exchange and Google calendar integrations- Triaging and investigating tier 2 support issues within the Campus product's Exchange and Google calendar integrations- Introducing a Rubocop style guide configuration iteratively to improve code quality in Campus- Code review new features and bug solutions for the Calendar squad

Apex, North Carolina, Us

- Partnered with a large healthcare organization to maintain and add features to a monolithic Rails app for clinical decision support- Stabilized a large and flaky test suites using testing best practices with RSpec and Capybara- Optimized N+1 database queries and resolved production support issues- Partnered with additional companies to build custom software using Ruby on Rails and React- Back-end development, primarily using Ruby on Rails- Front-end development using various client-side Javascript libraries and frameworks, including React and Ember- Researched and experimented with new languages and frameworks, including Elixir and Phoenix

Ipswich, Ma, Us

- Utilized various technologies to build products used by library administrators globally- Practiced Test-Driven Development- Followed Agile methodologies including Scrum and ScrumBan

Birmingham, Al, Us

- Optimized and supported internal web applications- Created and optimized databases, queries, and stored procedures