• Building core infrastructure using Rust

• Optimizing latency-sensitive workloads with spiky traffic

• Managed tasks across Engineering, Sales, & Compliance teams

• Led procurement for various services enhancing internal & external products

• Led technical efforts for SOC 2 compliance across aging stack & infrastructure

• Led optimization efforts on front-end and back-end applications with meaningful improvements in time to start, compile times, etc.

• Owned core infrastructure (Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines on CircleCI/GHA)

• Owned key runtime & dependency upgrades

• Built & managed various complex TypeScript services with strict latency requirements

During high school, I spent most of my free time writing code and working on personal projects, most of which were in a niche community which desired products that automatically purchased products that normally sold out within seconds of going live, and reselling them for a profit. I worked with a team of friends to develop a cross-platform desktop application with a user interface and back-end to allow users to easily purchase any limited goods they wanted. The business we created ended up being successful enough that my parents allowed me to take a gap year to pursue the idea even further.

My general responsibilities included:

• Managing a team of engineers

• Making critical business decisions such as who to hire and where to direct resources

• Interfacing with and providing support for various customers

My development responsibilities included:

• Leading development of the back-end (Golang, gRPC)

• Leading development of the user interface (React.js & TypeScript)

• Leading development of all micro-services (AWS, Kubernetes, Golang)

• Deploy & create schemas for data in a database (PostgreSQL on AWS RDS)

• Scaling product and related services to >5000 registered users

• Integrating various third-party services

• ReCaptcha to prevent bot accounts from registering

• ConfigCat for remote configurations for micro-services and clients

• DataDog for collecting logs and metrics regarding product usage and micro-service statuses

• GitHub Actions for automatic CI/CD

• ...and much more!

Working on Nyte taught me much more than I expected, primarily due to the several types of hats I wore. One day I would be doing customer support, the next I'd be deploying a new micro-service.

I eventually had to close the business due to a family situation, however both me and the people I worked with gained real-world experience of developing and maintaining a complex product with real customers.