Sep 2021 – Dec 2025 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Remote

• Led public API and infrastructure-as-code tooling including Terraform
• Helped build out a new organization model including automatic service discovery from telemetry
• Bootstrapped a new engine for telemetry pipelines

Jun 2015 – Aug 2021 · 6 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Tech lead for efforts automating service migrations across zones and regions, and improving reliability by better distribution of services across zones and building a canary zone.
• Tech lead for the Software Networking team which built all the infrastructure for all microservice communication: Service discovery, health checking, load balancing, rate limiting, traffic management, RPC libraries, etc.
• Built high-scale RPC infrastructure in Go, and primary author of the primary load balancer used for microservice communication, handling tens of millions of RPS across multiple protocols (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, gRPC, TChannel).
• Helped build the foundations for Go at Uber, including a shared build system, common libraries, and setting standards such as the Go Style Guide (https://github.com/uber-go/guide/blob/master/style.md)
• (Started as a Senior Engineer at Uber in 2015)

Jan 2013 – May 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Mountain View, CA

• Launched Helpouts marketplace, focusing on backend and billing integration.
• Launched Helpouts for partner sites, using Go and App Engine
• As the tech lead, designed and implemented large parts of the core infrastructure such as the API layer and storage layer.

Mar 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• SQL Azure - Failover, Placement, Load Balancing

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs

Jul 2008 – Jul 2009 · 1 yr · Chatswood, NSW, Australia

• Created many small new internal products such as an integrated document repository, internal intranet using Joomla with custom modules
• Helped transition a large VB6 application to ASP.NET, on both the backend and frontend
• Created a website with online quoting for an insurance broker using PHP/Joomla

Jul 2007 – Feb 2008 · 7 mos · Sydney, NSW, Australia

• Worked on a large code-base consisting mainly of Java and C++
• Reworked a large part of the back-end for a new product
• Maintained bugs in the existing code-base
• Wrote testing scripts and performed test suites
• Worked on data conversion software to convert large dumps of stock data from one format to another
• Recreated the state of the order book at any point based on historical financial market data

Feb 2007 – Dec 2010 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Kensington, NSW, Australia

• Tutored courses such as first year computing and software construction
• Taught C, data structures, algorithms, scripting, and unix tools