•Designed and built out a Rails microservice backend for referrals experiments. Generated client A/B test allocations via a data science-owned service and shared data with consumers of API. Extra focus on resiliency, including a Redis caching layer and fallback logic paths to ensure maximum response speed and up time.
•Worked on a task force team whose goal was to get engineering off of the shared database. Improved observability into connection usage on a per-application basis. Paired with platform engineers to port
individualized, per-app PgBouncer instances to global PgBouncer instance that managed database connection pooling for all apps in ecosystem.
•Collaborated with software architect to design Golang microservice for managing distributed transactions across the broader application ecosystem.
•Served as project lead and technical lead on a project critical to UK launch. Added new shipping options for UK clients and changed how client shipping data and carrier preferences were managed. Coordinated with three other engineering teams as well as UX, Product, and Strategy.
•Extracted front end component written with plain HTML / CSS / JavaScript from legacy Rails app into NPM module written in React. Added full test coverage using Enzyme and Jest. Learned React for this
project and brought rest of team up to speed.
•Managed summer intern and served as technical mentor. Taught test driven development via pair programming. Helped deepen her skills in git, JavaScript, and Ruby on Rails. Supported her in successfully delivering a stylist hiring microapp that cut need for manual engineering work.
•Founded and led engineering reading group to strengthen organizational culture of learning and create a shared knowledge base.
