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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 no dip in productivity after losing 25% of its members and the majority of its historical knowledge as a consequence of:• 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 stages with screenshots, API call payloads and DB dumps• 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 environments and contexts in one click• 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 design and implement industry-leading experiences for our internal as well as external customers.Achievements:• 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 extend the customers selection of data sources while maintaining and refactoring the existing codebase.• 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