Senior technologist and engineering leader tasked with engineering the next-generation of Hopin’s hybrid event platform.

• Designed oversaw the implementation of an event-driven attendee behavior API for third-party integrations.

Built out a chatops-based build-pipeline management tool to manage contributions of 200+ engineers.

• Designed a distributed onsite application architecture based on Kafka, used to integrate the acquired Boomset assets into the larger Hopin ecosystem, and connected to a 200-pod Kubernetes and Istio-based service mesh.

• Championed a collaborative assessment- and decision-making process for democratizing technology choices throughout engineering.

• Prototyped a next-gen event-based architecture using AWS Lambda and Kafka.

• Contributed to codebases across the org in Ruby/Rails, Python, Node, Rust, Clojure and Terraform.

Principal technologist for a 30-person engineering team overseeing both application and data engineering.

• Designed an event-based microservice architecture to integrate a number of heterogeneous applications into a distributed, highly-available e-commerce ecosystem.

• Responsible for managerial oversight of data engineering, championing the use of data as a strategic asset.

• Application technology stack is Ruby/JavaScript/Swift, alongside Kafka and Postgres.

• Data stack is Python, DBT/Equalum/Singer, Snowflake and Spark.

Senior member of engineering at scale, supporting a $4bn company with millions of active clients.

• Principal responsible for enabling multiple forward-facing application ecosystems to support an international expansion.

• Designed the transition of the organization’s messaging backbone from RabbitMQ to Kafka.

• Technology stack includes Ruby, Golang, and JavaScript (React), as well as PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, and Kafka, running on an AWS container infrastructure.