Greater New York City Area
• 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.