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San Diego, California, United States

• Lead to the Platform Management Backend team, in charge of designing and implementing initiatives that support cross-cutting business priorities.Achievements:Led the BE team through a successful project transition with.
• Catching up on a 2+ year long project in a matter of weeks
• Introducing BE sync meetings aligned with sprint cadence to foster collaboration, cross-pollination and mentorship
• Advocating for best practices: reduction of N+1 DB problems, parameterized unit tests, removal of random data in unit tests to increase stability and build consistency, capture and report of results during testings.
• Polishing the developer experience: remote debugging and local Kubernetes intercepts to shorten development cycles, environment-agnostic and reusable DB queries, connection strings, Postman URLs and bookmarks to swap.
• Driving operational excellence: cross-team component readiness compliance for new components and transitioning existing ones into micro services

San Diego, California, United States

• Tealium connects data so you can connect with your customers.Achievements:
• Built a new micro service from the ground up (initial commit to prod deployment) on week 2 on the job
• Introduced automated OpenAPI doc generation, cursor-based pagination, parameterized unit tests and full-stack in-memory integration tests to the new micro service
• Optimized endpoint response time from 137 seconds to 526 milliseconds and assisted my team in discovering and patching issues of similar magnitude in two additional cases
• Fixed issues with a scheduled, data-processing server that caused undue rate-limiting and brought processing times from over 15 minutes to under 1 minute
• Updated MongoDB indices to run queries in under 1 minute down from over 3 hours

San Diego Metropolitan Area

• Flock Freight leverages advanced algorithms to power its shared truckload service and drive industry change through efficiency, optimization and sustainability.In this role, I work closely with Product Management to.
• Automated daily insurance compliance updates for over 1500 active carriers
• Sped up carrier look ups and carrier profile updates by over 5x
• Implemented a team-wide code styling and auto-formatting strategy
• Ported local static code analysis over to our CI/CD pipeline

Carlsbad

• Played a key role in the development of the Walmart Plus sign up experience
• Implemented supplemental layer of credit card encryption supporting ~85k checkout transactions per day
• Patched loophole affecting order abuse protecting ~25k operations per day

Emeryville, CA

• Adobe Advertising enables its clients to automate, coordinate, and scale paid media buying across digital channels with tools that seamlessly connect data and experiences.Achievements:
• Reduced database load by 150x in metadata endpoints by implementing a multi-tiered caching system servicing up to 500k entries at a time
• Enabled single sign-on and user switching feature for 1900+ users by integrating existing authentication system with company-wide identity provider
• Facilitated the functional programming effort by converting our largest micro-service to Java 8
• Improved the performance of 80% of the API endpoints (with gains up to 50% in some scenarios) by designing and implementing a two-stage performance optimization project
• Enhanced dependency and project management by transitioning the API team’s main project to a standard, company-wide Maven configuration

San Diego, California

• Ensighten gives companies the ability to consolidates their multichannel data from any internal and external source and unifies it within its cloud-based data warehouse.As part of the backend team, my goal was to.
• Mainly focused on automated third-party data collection modules called Connectors
• Significant exposure to RESTful APIs (Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Facebook Insights, Twitter Analytics, Youtube, Instagram, Tumblr, Adobe Site Catalyst, SiteScout)
• Significant exposure to the OAuth 2.0 protocol
• Attended and occasionally led Scrum meetings
• Exposure to Java 256-bit AES encryption