Dec 2021 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · San Jose, CA

• Project Texas: As the 2nd U.S. backend engineer for "Project Texas" in WebRTC, I ensured compliance with stringent U.S. data security regulations, preventing a potential TikTok ban. This enhancement to TikTok's backend infrastructure contributed to generating $24.2 billion for the U.S. GDP and $14.7 billion in small business revenue in 2023.
• Roadmap Development: Developed the roadmap for backend enhancements in TikTok's WebRTC framework, leading initiatives to ensure compliance for new features like 1v2 co-host and 1v8 multi-guest, improve the quality of the Video streaming H265/H264 architecture, and build new data centers. These contributions were part of the broader efforts that led to a 200% increase in user engagement and a tripling of TikTok Live usage from 25 million to 75 million minutes in 2023.
• CDN Routing: Developed and deployed an alternative routing mechanism utilizing Golang and C++ for mixed/co-hosting stream traffic within the Project Texas initiative. This solution, scaled globally, resulted in a 65% decrease in co-hosting session initiation time, substantially improving the user experience worldwide.
• Robust Software Distribution: Designed and implemented a Robust Software Distribution system for WebRTC, minimizing online incidents from updates, reducing P0 incidents due to code changes to 0. Established centralized deployment procedures with advanced release scheduling. Implemented comprehensive monitoring for global visualization. Instituted controls to prevent disruptions, and provided mentorship to junior team members.
• Black Screen and Silent Audio: Implemented solutions using the FFmpeg library to detect black screens and silent audio in ongoing live streams, raising alerts when thresholds are met.

Feb 2014 – Dec 2021 · 7 yrs 10 mos · Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Team Management: Managed and mentored a team of 8 software engineers directly, ensuring efficient Agile practices and fostering professional growth and led a cross regional team with a budget of over $5M
• Worked closely with stakeholders on a range of Account Payables, Receivables, and Payments Platform projects, facilitating transparent communication of project milestones, resolution of challenges, and timely project completion.
• Designed and implemented resilient microservice architecture, employing the strangler pattern to transition from monolithic to microservices using Java and Spring Framework.
• Played a lead role in both platform and product teams, delivering business features, greenfield applications, and cloud migration initiatives.
• Service Throughput Optimization: Spearheaded improvements in service throughput on the Banks leading Payments Platform, scaling from 3000 to 30k transactions/second through optimizations in Kafka, cloud scaling, and memory utilization.