Platform Engineer:
• Responsible for automation, deployments, metrics, monitoring, incident triage, etc.
• Designed, implemented, and owned Affirm's solution for online schema migrations, via gh-ost. Executed migrations, created detailed documentation, and trained other engineers.
• Owned capacity planning for Affirm's technical infrastructure. Produced a detailed process, including documentation, monitoring dashboards, and a spreadsheet, that allowed us to compute needed capacity based on current resource usage and projected traffic.
• Owner of, and technical expert for, Affirm's Salt infrastructure, used for configuration management and, critically, for deployments. Produced extensive documentation, including troubleshooting guides, how-to's, etc. Troubleshot many errors, and suggested improvements to the infrastructure.
• Along with two teammates, successfully delivered on an aggressive goal to stand up an entirely new copy of our tech stack in a new region (Canada) in two months. Immediately followed this by scaling our • Salt infra, app servers, and async workers to handle 30x traffic for Black Friday.
• Participated in new engineer mentorship, technical interviewing panels, and 24/7 on-call rotation.
