Sep 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Architecting and Leading a complete rewrite of the Github feed in a Go microservice, using a twirp API to communicate with other services
• The rewrite has led to a 130% increase in performance
• This includes leading a cross departmental team of 12 Engineers and Data scientists
• Created a highly scalable event Based architecture making use of Apache Kafka
• Responsibilities include: running weekly meetings, running retros, assisting in planning meetings, giving work estimates, Onboarding new engineers, etc.
• Led the Issue Forms project which is used by over 40,000 repositories
• Created an analytics dashboard with looker to track adoption over time
• Partnered with org director to Create and run multiple department hackathons that led to clearing out all security and performance issues, as well as at least 1 project Shipped to production each time

Nov 2018 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Architected the MYSQL Database schema for a scalable, high volume permissions structure across all of GitHub
• Led and architected Custom Repository Roles project which led to more security for enterprise customers, and shipped without any security bugs or incidents

Jul 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Santa Barbara, California Area

• Helped build the site's dockerized authentication microservice with 99.99% uptime commitment
• Building a Global session store for use with multiple services and geographic sharding with Elixir and Phoenix
• Improved performance on a page by reducing load time from > 10 mins to 5 seconds
• Migrated over 60 million rows of data from a monolith to a new microservice
• Performance improvements through caching and rewriting sql statements that resulted in total number of queries being reduced by as much as 60% on one page
• Diagnose and assist internal and external customers with authentication and oauth issues
• Created a data archiving plan to speed up queries and prevent timeouts on large tables
• Led a team that built an orm for use with Doorkeeper in Ruby
• Designed RESTful APIs in Rails

Aug 2014 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Implemented SSL on 20+ sites, including assisting with DNS migrations, cleaning apache configuration files, and fixing mixed media content warnings.
• Led and undertook two full application rewrites from HTML only, and PHP to Rails
• Built an API with token based authentication
• Utilized Resque to schedule monthly mailing cron jobs with dynamic content
• Responsible for gem and rails platform upgrades, including scheduling future end-of-life
• upgrade timelines to reduce/minimize technical debt
• Wrote a BASH script to automate upgrades, reducing upgrade time from a day to
• minutes
• Improved code coverage in an existing application from 0 coverage to 50% coverage
• with Rspec and Capybara tests