New York, New York, United States
2023 — 2023
New York, New York, United States
2022 — 2023
New York, New York, United States
Owned full stack feature development and on-call support for high-performing Command Center product, a real time analytics and vehicle tracking platform used by full-time operations support team of 20+ to manage and facilitate service operations
Improved reliability and reduced latency of customer checkout to under 300 ms by building fully asynchronous API checkout flow via Kafka and Cosmos DB from legacy synchronous flow in Assignment Management system
Re-optimized joins and determined need for additional key indexes to reduce P99 latency from over 1 sec to less than 500 ms after investigating and optimizing legacy underperforming MySQL queries using SQL EXPLAIN and Azure diagnostic info
Established Kotlin schema, endpoints, and logic to link incidents to in-progress orders, identifying cause for 90% of vehicle down time
Created sticky filters in Command Center by leveraging TypeScript and Zustand store to write user-selected values to local browser storage
Integrated gRPC stub to get inventory eligibility data from Assignment Management, displaying calculated percentage for 300+ vehicles
Implemented in-memory caching and garbage collection with Guava to reduce API latency from several seconds to less than 100 ms
Explored viability for integration of new vehicle planning, incident, and sensor data in Command Center for hub managers
Designed critical reusable React components with Reakit for design system used by all 5 internal web applications across company
Led operational excellence improvements by implementing server side alerting with Prometheus and Elastic to detect API errors, high latency, SQL errors, pod CPU spikes, and Kafka lag, as well as crafting multiple Grafana dashboards to visually track SLA requirements
2021 — 2022
New York, New York, United States
Integrated Mapbox in Command Center and designed custom React layers and vehicle icons that updated in real time with WebSocket GPS data to act as base platform for all in-service communications to manage 300+ vehicles on road
Reduced overall drive time by 2 min, using Uber’s H3 and historical demand to better position vehicles in service area with predictive positioning that overhauled vehicle idle time in multi-quarter project
Created image viewer and hashed out OpenAPI spec for endpoint that utilized Verkada client to take snapshots inside vehicles in real time
Designed modals for crucial actions like placing vehicles offline and reassigning orders in Command Center that called upstream services
Developed hundreds of React Query hooks, Axios endpoints, and React function components to match Figma specifications
Collaborated on Kotlin back end systems, including Kafka ingestion, SQL queries, Javalin REST API endpoints, and OTEL collection
Composed 20+ SQL migrations and stored procedures to create new tables, modify columns, and add or remove indexes
2018 — 2021
New York, New York, United States
Engineering:
Participated in every step of product development process as tech lead from ideation to development and improvement of existing features
Led new feature planning as project manager by driving product roadmap decisions around timeline, design, implementation, and rollout
Overhauled entire UI with AngularJS, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, leading to rebrand before launching Outwing as external SaaS tool
Built automated monitoring with NewsCatcher API and PostgreSQL on Node.js server, reducing time spent on daily tasks by 1.5 hours
Implemented feature to quantify relationship building with journalists by calculating coverage conversion rates for client spokespeople
Introduced customizable coverage exports, allowing teams to alter formatting to meet requirements of client executive teams and boards
Improved product security for all users by converting direct Firebase reads and writes to authenticated REST API endpoints with Express
Debugged errors and deployed patches in timely manner by leveraging user feedback, Heroku logs, and Papertrail logs
Insights and Analytics:
Onboarded 87 new LaunchSquad clients to Outwing, increasing LaunchSquad user adoption by 64%
Extracted data with SQL from Postgres database to analyze and identify key trends used to inform entire company in monthly newsletters
Generated insights and created digestible deliverables for clients and new business prospects by applying advanced spreadsheet techniques
Educated all employees on leveraging Outwing to prove the impact of agency work to clients, increasing product fluency across company
Gave Outwing product demos to client CMOs, communications leads, and other key stakeholders, leading to stronger client relationships
Education
2014 — 2018
Cornell University
2014 — 2018