Aug 2021 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos · United States · Remote

• Led the backend engineering effort on the Audiobooks product, bringing the product from zero to launch, driving revenue growth from $0 to $350k per quarter (and growing) (tech: Python, Typescript, Kotlin)
• Developed audiobooks pipeline from publisher ingestion to processing and sales backend, with 100k+ audiobooks on sale to date
• Designed and developed search infrastructure and API, powering low-latency search across 100M+ listenable documents for all users (tech: Elasticsearch)
• Developed multi-platform libraries to power TTS experiences across the product stack (Web, iOS, Android) - improving quality metrics by 30%+ while also reducing time to ship new features (tech: Kotlin Multiplatform, Typescript)
• Developed and maintained scalable cloud infrastructure that supports user libraries and high-quality TTS for more than 100M+ listenable documents across 5M+ users (tech: Typescript, Kotlin, Python, Firebase, GCP)
• Implemented CI/CD, monitoring and analytics for backend services (tech: Github Actions, GCP, BigQuery)

Jul 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Developed API microservices to support processing ot 10k+ daily health insurance remittance transactions on a reliable, distributed architecture (tech: Java, Spring, Oracle SQL, Kafka)
• Developed APIs for provisioning, authorization, and monitoring, managing 1k+ employees for insurance operations
• Implemented CI/CD and monitoring for the insurance remittance processing backend (tech: Jenkins, Grafana)

Oct 2019 – May 2020 · 7 mos · Kennedy Space Center, Florida, United States

• Developed autonomous swarm functionality and path-planning for lunar rovers for navigating the lunar surface in simulation (tech: Python, ROS)
• Developed obstacle detection systems for rovers navigating on the lunar surface in simulation (tech: Python, OpenCV, ROS)

Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 · 2 mos · Tampa, Florida, United States

• - Developed API microservices for internal operations team to resolve remittance payment issues by streaming real-time exceptions, reducing mean time to resolution (tech: Java, Spring, Oracle SQL, Websockets)

May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos · United States · Remote

• Developed a REST API to integrate existing supply chain management systems into the Ethereum blockchain, with services running in both private and public chains
• Provided a seamless transition, and easy-to-use interface for our customers through an API that allows all kinds of customers to integrate their existing tech with our system.
• Worked with distributed file systems using IPFS