Mar 2024 – Jul 2024 · 4 mos · London, United Kingdom · Remote

Oct 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos · London, United Kingdom · On-site

• After joining Snapchat, I quickly became a pivotal member of the Dynamic Stories team as the second engineer on the team (soon growing to 6). Our mission was to innovate Snapchat's Discover feed through programmatically generated content.
• During my tenure at Snap, I was able to lead several key initiatives, significantly impacting both product and team efficiency:
• Identifying opportunities to save approximately $450,000 annually during a company-wide cost savings sprint.
• Initiated and successfully executed a core stability enhancement project, boosting dynamic stories ingestion by 25%. This project was critical in providing much-needed observability and tooling enhancements for the product.
• Played a key role in a company-wide code red program to improve ad performance.
• Beyond these contributions to product development, I was instrumental in fostering team growth and efficiency through:
• Developing and implementing a scalable onboarding strategy, introducing service-specific instructional videos. This innovation drastically reduced the need for manual, one-on-one onboarding across approximately 20 services.
• Serving as the primary onboarding buddy and point of contact for three new team members, ensuring their smooth integration into our team.
• Founding and leading a new team dedicated to a specific service, successfully onboarding three engineers and setting them up for success within just two weeks.
• These efforts not only enhanced our product's stability and performance but also cultivated a supportive and efficient team environment.

Jul 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

• After working as a Junior Engineer for a year and a half, I was promoted to an SDE2 position. This promotion was a testament to the trust and experience I had built within my team, enabling me to take on projects that were more challenging and had a broader impact. My focus shifted towards developing key infrastructure and essential capabilities that would serve as the foundation for future enhancements.
• During this time, I worked on several significant projects:
• I designed and implemented a system for managing the purchase and rental of digital media. By the time I left, this system had processed over 500 million transactions.
• I led initiatives to adopt Infrastructure as Code, improving our monitoring and deployment processes by integrating them into code repositories.
• I spearheaded a complete overhaul of our service platform, transitioning it from Perl to a Java Spring stack. This would serve as the foundation for every capability our team supported going forward.
• These projects were crucial in enhancing our platform's capabilities and ensuring its scalability for future growth.

Sep 2017 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

• In September 2017, I joined the Acquisitions team at Prime Video as a Junior Software Engineer. My work focused on fixing bugs and supporting our operations. My early work at Amazon was focused on expanding Prime, and Prime Video’s availability across different regions.
• Some early projects that I contributed to include:
• Launching Amazon Prime in several important markets, including Singapore, Mexico, and Turkey.
• Updating our team's integration with third-party payment processors to enhance transaction efficiency.
• Introducing new payment options in Japan, supporting our growth in this key market.