Mentorship & Leadership: Guided junior engineers in advancing their software projects

using domain-driven design principles, focusing on innovative solutions to enhance

product functionality and alignment with business goals.

Data Architecture: Initiated and led conversions to redesign the existing data models based on

domain-driven design to accurately mirror business process, significantly reducing

the risk of technical debt associated with future system overhauls. Including prototypes and working sessions.

QA & CI/CD Optimization: Dedicated significant efforts to shore up both unit and

end-to-end testing frameworks. Enhanced the stability and reliability of the CI/CD

pipeline by identifying and resolving sources of flakiness in tests.

Project Development: Engineered and deployed multiple key projects, including:

● ETL: Aggregated user equity and dividend payout data used in tax filing

documents with Ruby on Rails

● ETL: Automated execution of complex business rules and eliminate human error.

● Automation Solution: Automated several cross team processes and eliminated need

for coordination by using S3

Team & Vision Leadership: Solely responsible for the DevOps domain on a newly formed

team. Defined scope, responsibilities, and both short and long-term goals. Crafted a

comprehensive two-year roadmap to develop core infrastructure components essential

for organizational growth.

Strategic Audits & Planning: Conducted detailed audits of initial planning, scoping,

implementation, and deployment practices. Produced a strategic recommendations report

aimed at advancing DevOps objectives and enhancing the CI/CD platform to support

robust future implementation.

Technology Integration & Innovation: Spearheaded the integration of Hashicorp

technologies - Terraform, Packer, Consul, Vault - into the software ecosystem.

Addressed critical challenges in credential management, service discovery,

infrastructure tracking, and account management, significantly boosting the

productivity and capabilities of the feature implementation team.

Architecture Guidance & System Design: Provided architectural guidance for

high-scale, high-availability, distributed cloud systems. Supported the feature

implementation team in automating core processes, advising on AWS resource

utilization, best practices, and tailored solutions for unique business requirements.

Project Development: Designed and prototyped a GitHub self-hosted runner solution for

a new CI/CD platform. Achievements included faster artifact builds, secure data

transfer across multiple AWS accounts in compliance with ITAR/EAR regulations, and

the creation of secure ephemeral build servers using the AWS govcloud.

Agile Leadership & Solution Ownership: Led the scoping, costing, design,

implementation, and testing of SEO-critical services. Provided ongoing support and

guidance to the team on best practices for both new and existing services

Cloud Architecture Expertise: Served as the team’s AWS specialist, offering expert

advice on cloud architecture and cloud integrations, enhancing performance,

reliability, and scalability

Project Development:

● System Modernization: Successfully deprecated several costly, inadequate legacy

systems, replacing them with new, maintainable services that are now pivotal to

the company’s SEO strategy

● Architectural Transformation: Led the transition from a mono-repo architecture

to a microservice architecture, significantly increasing developer throughput

and enhancing the developer experience.

Full Stack Development & Cloud Integration: Developed and managed end-to-end

solutions ranging from infrastructure as code (Terraform), to front-end frameworks

(React) for SEO-critical services. Played a pivotal role in transitioning legacy

systems to microservice architecture and migrating all services to the AWS cloud.

CI/CD & Service Optimization: Engineered and integrated CI/CD pipelines for various

projects, enhancing deployment processes and operational reliability.

Project Development:

● Codebase Modernization: led the upgrade of the legacy PHP codebase from PHP5 to

PHP7 resulting in a performance improvement of 10-15%

● Cloud Migration Leadership: Contributed decisively to the team’s success as the

first in the organization to transition all critical services to a 100%

cloud-based infrastructure.