Seventh engineering hire to a small, elite team building HelioScope: the leading tool for commercial solar installers to design solar panel installations and simulate their energy production.
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Single-handedly reduced company’s AWS bill 17% by implementing auto-scaling of EC2 instances. Created a build/deploy system using Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).
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Worked with another engineer to reimplement SaaS billing system to support new types of Stripe products and subscriptions in preparation for new product launch.
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Streamlined and maintained much of the infrastructure, including asynchronous task system (Celery), logging, monitoring/alerting, and deploy tools (Heroku, AWS).
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Sped up production deploys by 5x, enabled them to be run remotely on slower networks
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Implemented countless full-stack features for upcoming proposals web app, using React, Redux, Flask, SQLAlchemy, and PostgreSQL.
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Implemented several internal productivity tools for the Sales/Support team
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Maintained current production web app, using Angular.
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Pushed team to formalize/improve on processes. Active participant on hiring panel.
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Mentored junior engineers, managed an intern who implemented two key features.
