Led the development of Blue Owl’s initial auto-insurance backend, a collection of microservices that connect all of the rest of the components together. Negotiated and implemented the APIs. Starting with nothing, the system went live with real customers in 2017. Proposed and built a replacement policy administration system (policy, billing, reporting, ledger, etc); did a successful single-day cutover in 2020. (Go)

This was an early-stage startup. In first three months: I replaced entire backend-services platform with new API server (node), converting data from a non-relational store to relational (PostgreSQL). My comprehensive test suite (Python) allowed a hard cutover.

I improved collection of non-click signals for user attention by reducing user impacts from sending the signals gaining approval for a full-scale launch (Javascript w/Closure).

I added back-end processing features to handle additional data collected (Go)

I made front-end UI changes including new generic widgets (Javascript w/Closure). I also made back-end improvements: new features, big data reorganization, refactoring, and added a new product: customer-triggered batch processing for unsampled reports (C++, Java).