Built JWT-based security layer for Sayl's REST API; Implemented JAX-RS filters to control production access for internal customers

Provided consulting for engineering teams with interests in integrating with internally-built token generator

Built web interface around Sayl's REST API in order to provide a user friendly interface for customers to self-serve and configure connector properties with

Provisioned clusters of Schema Registry and KSQL (along with their build/release management infrastructure)

Worked in cross-functional efforts across the company (Finance Engineering, Competitive Intelligence, Marketing Engineering, Sales Engineering, Data Technologies, Storefront, and more) to assist in architecting systems that can benefit from Kafka and surrounding ecosystem

Designed and implemented a mod of Confluent’s Kafka Connect JDBC library to enable internal customers at Wayfair to poll SQL Server changetracking data to generate streaming data in Kafka for realtime processes to consume from for stream processing and data ingestion into other data stores

Provisioned an internal instance of Kafka Connect, called Sayl, that is integrated into Wayfair's build/release management infrastructure to make it possible for internal customizations to be made on top of open source offerings

Worked with engineering leadership to establish a new team in infrastructure to grow Sayl; Became first member within "Emerging Systems", a team purposed with promoting event-driven solutions via Kafka, Sayl (Kafka Connect), and more