• Designed and executed a new API strategy to make it possible for teams to independently own & operate their APIs.

• Built starter kit with AWS SAM templates for teams to stand up their own API infrastructure.

• Added canary deployments and rollback capabilities to shared API Gateway infrastructure.

• Partnered with the mobile apps team to prototype a GraphQL API and explore whether using the technology could solve problems for our mobile engineers.

• Interviewed engineering candidates for staff and manager roles.

• Assumed the role of engineering lead for the API Platform team (Jan ’18 - present). Scoped and prioritized the team’s work, as well as being the technical go to for API related questions and decisions.

• Researched and decided on a new API strategy to help move Meetup away from the monolithic API. Built out a platform to support this strategy, and created tooling for deploying lambdas to back REST API endpoints.

• Designed and iterated on a process to help engineers confidently make engineering and architecture decisions.

• Participated in a working group to create Meetup Engineering’s Architecture Principles.

• Migrated the monolith’s to Amazon SQS from internally hosted RabbitMQ for worker queue needs.

• Mentored junior and newly senior members of the Developer Platform team.

• Interviewed engineering candidates for senior, staff, manager, and director roles.

• Served as engineering lead for the member engagement team from May ’15 - Oct ’16. Worked jointly with the Product Manager to scope and prioritize the team’s work.

• Built API endpoints to support our redesigned web experience and new web platform.

• Built the backend for a group communications feature, which included one of Meetup’s first non-monolithic services.

• Scaled the next generation notifications platform out to all pushable members, which included a move of the system from a datacenter to the cloud.

• Mentored an intern on the team, who later received and accepted a full time offer.