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Work Experience

• Software Engineering Manager, Nerd

  Jun, 2023 - Present

  • Led a team of 7 software engineers in a fast-paced, agile environment focused on producing large-scale applications. Improved team productivity by mentoring and developing talent, leading to individual career growth and internal promotion.

  • Augmented the design, development, and architecture of the Node Engine service by identifiying bottlenecks, implementing development best-practices, and introducing automation tools to improve code quality, reduce bugs, and create reliable release cycles

  • Acted as a liaison between technical teams, executive leadership, and external partners, effectively translating business requirements into technical strategies and ensuring all parties remained aligned on project goals. This communication improved project efficiency and stakeholder satisfaction.

• Site Reliability Engineer, Near

  Sep, 2022 - Jun, 20239 months

  • Spearheaded the design and deployment of our extensive monitoring and logging systems using Prometheus, Grafana, Mirmir, and Synthetics, with further optimizations achieved, while employing Terraform for consistent infrastructure state and tidy Infrastructure as Code.

  • Designed and implemented a custom, cloud-native API gateway using Kong, Redis, and Kubernetes clusters, enabling features such as rate limiting, caching mechanisms, bot detection, custom plugins, and advanced authentication.

  • Constructed a GraphQL API for NEAR's blockchain data models, providing clients with efficient, flexible data access, and leveraged GraphQL subscriptions to implement real-time updates in the application, smart contracts, and on-chain analytics, significantly improving user experience.

• Site Reliability Engineer, Adobe

  Sep, 2019 - Sep, 20223 years

  • Implemented the auto-remediation task engine (ARTE) which consists of a Python based CLI, REST API, WebSocket, and a Celery middleware for task execution

  • Managed and configured global infrastructure consisting of over 4,000 on-premises Linux servers, ensuring high availability, performance, disaster recovery, and security across all locations.

  • Successfully migrated legacy applications to containerized solutions using Docker and orchestrated deployments with Kubernetes, enhancing scalability, resource efficiency, and ease of management.

• Software Developer, Infrastructure, Younique

  Feb, 2015 - Sep, 20194 years 7 months

  • Restructured core PHP monolith into a distributed, microservice oriented architecture of containerized and serverless applications, allowing services to independently scale, augment observablity, and increase development velocity.

  • Built full-stack application to enable users to perform self-serviced return merchandise authorizations which reduced call-center traffic by over 30%, reducing customer-facing operating costs significantly.

  • Improved security by auditing and patching numerous vulnerabilities like SQL injections, XSS, CSRF, and Session Hijacking, while also establishing secure development standards, web application firewalls, and automated vulnerability scans.

Projects Experience

• GovLabs

  May, 2022 - Present

  Utilizing machine learning tools to assist small businesses in discovering, bidding, and winning federal contract opportunities.

• Elision Labs

  Mar, 2022 - Present

  Elision Labs provides infrastructure and development services for blockchain projects.

• FoxSwap

  May, 2020 - Sep, 20222 years 4 months

  FoxSwap is a decentralized application that provides features such as auto-compounding vaults, yield farms, token exchange, and escrow service built on the Harmony EVM.

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