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
Remote
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.
2019 — 2021
Greater Seattle Area
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.
2018 — 2019
Seattle, Washington
2017 — 2018
San Francisco, CA
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.
Education
2013 — 2015
San Francisco State University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
2013 — 2015
2011 — 2013
City College of San Francisco
Computer Science
2011 — 2013