Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Completed SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 audits
• Maintained multi-tenant AWS cloud infrastructure
• On-call to support incidents during any giving hour
• Led tenant onboarding and improved the process with automation
• Contributed infrastructure as code in Terraform and Python
• Reviewed code across the stack and managed releases
• Communicated directly with leadership to resolve product issues
• Designed scalable application features based on event-driven cloud infrastructure
• Onboarded new engineers to the organization
• Promoted process improvements in favor of scaling the organization

Mar 2019 – Jan 2020 · 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Built and supported high ROI features that led to series A funding
• Supported MVP release for marketing launch at the BlackHat 2019 conference
• Developed foundations and design patterns that enabled developers the use of serverless based applications in production
• Integrated Python linters and defined standards to improve code quality and developer experience
• Deployed and maintained serverless internal PyPI
• Created easy to use build tools to support production releases of dynamic AWS serverless applications
• Guided engineers to prevent limitations and how to handle throttling in AWS
• Led team mob sessions and incident triage
• Contributed features across the application stack and was flexible with priorities
• Maintained and configured AWS RDS Aurora MySQL database clusters
• Implemented user authentication using API gateway and Cognito

May 2018 – Mar 2019 · 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Created full-stack solutions using React.js (UI), Kotlin & Swift (Mobile), PHP (API), and C++ (Server)
• Contributed to multiple projects for the #ExpensifyThis Super Bowl LIII advertisement campaign
• Built internal tooling to help improve processes for remediating customer billing issues
• Communicated directly with customers, product stakeholders and third party vendors
• Performed release coordination and QA testing
• Wrote technical documentation for planned features and reviewed other ongoing technical documents
• Participated in hiring processes and onsite technical interviews
• Promoted standards and best practices within the engineering organization

Jul 2017 – May 2018 · 10 mos

• Created a containerized machine learning microservices that improved the life cycle of models in production (Docker / AWS / Python / Flask)
• Enabled data science engineers to release features fast and reliably using CI/CD tools
• Presented the microservice R&D at the Capital One data week conference
• Automated deployments of AWS cloud infrastructure to multiple regions

Jul 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr

• Contributor on an inner sourced MEAN stack application for monitoring AWS usage and costs
• Built automation that helped teams identify high AWS spending and easily keep costs down by automatically scaling or terminating AWS resources.
• Researched and integrated automated UI testing using nightwatch
• Implemented a microservice event infrastructure using kafka
• Developed a DevOps program to educate teams on the importance of adopting organization engineering standards and common patterns to use
• Presented and lead the DevOps program for the organization

Sep 2015 – Jun 2016 · 9 mos · Rochester, New York Area

• Created a PHP API framework to fetch and serve data
• Researched and improved website performance
• Implemented design changes

Aug 2013 – May 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Rochester, New York Area

• Aided in teaching Computer Science courses
• Instructed during weekly tutoring sessions to review problem solving, algorithms, and data structures (Python)
• Mentored students during problem solving and lab hours
• Graded student labs and projects

Jun 2014 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Diego, California, United States

• Designed a cross-platform deployment system for both development and production environments using Python
• Automated the installation of software on client machines. Simplified setup to a single button click and reduce time from days to minutes. Greatly improving the product experience for clients.
• Coordinated releases for the cross-platform deployment system
• Migrated PowerShell scripts to Python
• Researched and implemented DevOps tools to improve engineering team build processes

Jun 2013 – Feb 2014 · 8 mos · San Diego, California, United States

• Testing and development for the Global Hawk UAV program
• Created Arquillian integration test workflows for the teams development environment
• Improved JUnit test coverage
• Performed regression tests and stress tests
• Learned agile processes

Feb 2014 – May 2014 · 3 mos · Rochester, New York Area

• Contributed to a dashboard application that was used to display test results
• Implemented data extraction and report generation using SSRS
• Migrated data from T4 Templates to a SQL database in C#