Software developer with experience in web backend, APIs, databases and infrastructure. Interested in start-ups and big companies alike with challenging software development problems. Interested in companies with original ideas, making world-changing businesses. Particularly interested in databases.

2018 — 2024AppleSenior Software Engineer

2018 — 2024

Cupertino, California, United States

Developed web applications used by sales and finance analysts for business processes, business intelligence and reporting to management, including transactional and analytical apps, the APIs and databases that power them, and working with the infrastructure team on deployments.

Software: Typescript/Node.js, Flask/Python, Ruby on Rails

Databases: PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, DuckDB, Snowflake

MPP: Spark, Dremio, Drill

Infra: Kubernetes, Docker, Linux

AWS: EKS, S3

Built and maintained internal tools for business intelligence

System admin of custom database deployments on Linux VMs

Several infrastructure migrations from on-prem to cloud, cloud to cloud

Optimized API and database querying for sub-second performance, and ETL processes

Mentored and assisted other developers

2018 — 2018Beezwax Datatools, Inc.Senior Software Engineer

2018 — 2018

Cupertino, CA

Full-stack web development for clients of the company.

Languages are mainly Python and Ruby on backend, React/Redux/JS on frontend.

2016 — 2018PostmatesSoftware Engineer

2016 — 2018

San Francisco Bay Area

I joined the team that is in charge of the fleet of couriers that perform deliveries.

Maintained and optimized the payments system that couriers use to pay for goods

Integrated a replacement phonemasking service to anonymize calls/texts which led to big savings

Optimized DB queries, tables for better space and time performance to help scale the service

Worked on system to avoid courier signup fraud

2015 — 2016M3Software Engineer

2015 — 2016

Backend engineer for web services, external and internal.

Server-side development in Ruby/Rails, Scala/Play, Java/Jersey/Spring

Database work mainly in PostgreSQL, Oracle

Integration testing with Selenium/Capybara

Worked to increase testing coverage, and add testing where there was none for saner development

2014 — 2015AnyPerkLead Engineer

2014 — 2015

In charge of hiring engineers, assigning tasks to be done, ensuring engineers know what needs doing and providing assistance when needed. Continued to develop software as an engineer.

● Interviewed and hired the first engineers

● Code review for junior engineers (using Github’s pull requests)

● Ensured engineering needs got prioritized alongside product/sales needs

● Pushed for initial unit testing (rspec), integration testing (Selenium), standard development environment (Vagrant), and incremental refactors

Education

2007 — 2010

University of California, Santa Cruz

BS

2007 — 2010

2004 — 2006

De Anza College

2004 — 2006

Experience+

Education

BS