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Worked on custom database service + application backends + content-editing tooling in Rust, and cross-platform integration with WebAssembly and Android. Was a primary driver/advocate for our Rust-related build, deploy, CI, and CD.

Spent 6 weeks in our Philippines BPO call-center working graveyard shifts, driving product and tooling improvements as well as triaging adoption issues of our new internal product and tooling.

Helped refactor and support Neptune, a custom ingestion/search/storage system for live athletic game data streams and complex aggregated batch/live data analysis, utilizing AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Apache Pulsar, and SQL with Rust.

Gained ownership of telemetry for service, implementing OpenTelemetry distributed tracing support and various metrics/logs/tracing dashboards on Grafana (with data from Prometheus/Loki/Tempo).

Developed for and supported next-gen distributed back-end team for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale and SharePoint, using C++ and C# to scale perf/capacity past 4 TB.

Helped develop and triage issues primarily for the database transaction log management service as defined by "Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud" (2019).

Developed/Supported critical distributed backend services for internal company-wide issue management and Scrum sprint planning software using Java, Python, and Ruby (with 50k - 100k unique users per day).

Owned part of then-“largest” company-wide software migration process, while advocating to combat tech debt and ops.

Helped develop and maintain multi-regional distributed HTTP REST services, “scripts,” daemons, and automation projects.

Successfully mentored an intern to a returning full-time offer.