Core developer on Ruby backend platform used by hundreds of engineers. I focus on developer productivity, build/test speed, and expanding type checking with Sorbet.

Other projects:

* Set up a monitoring framework/standards for multiple teams using Datadog and Terraform. Facilitated creation of hundreds of monitors with standardized tags, notifications and priority levels.

* Overhauled a data pipeline system syncing user data to Braze (CRM system) from dozens of data sources. Decreased Snowflake costs by a factor of 10, decreased sync time by 40%, and increased data attribute count by a factor of 4.

* Ran the RCA (root cause analysis) process for the customer app

Goodreads, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations.

Some of the projects I've worked on as the tech lead on the Goodreads Foundation team:

* Architected a new cloud-based development environment for engineers to replace on-laptop development, thus improving consistency and performance

* Developed a nightly production snapshot containing a coherent subset of production data from 100+ tables and services, for realistic development and staging environments

* Developed a remote parallel smoke-testing cluster, reducing full test run times from >1 hour to 12 minutes and freeing development environments for other tasks

* Migrated from a self-hosted MySQL server to multiple Aurora and Redis clusters

* Developed a Ruby-based monitor/alarm generation framework, used to generate 1000+ monitors/alarms for Goodreads operations

* Developed a caching framework that cut book page server-side time by 33%

* Architected a system for responding to DSARs to comply with CCPA; asynchronously and securely collects data from 150+ sources and delivers archive to user

* Mentored junior members of team

Architect of web framework used by Hearst's magazine sites (Cosmopolitan, Esquire, etc.)

and content management system. Projects include:

* personal development environments for engineers

* facility for production code triggers and rollbacks

* version-controlled database migrations

* automated tests using simulated web requests and a mock data store

* cache optimization, leading to the open-sourcing of a new Perl cache framework (CHI)

Migrated ChargeSmart website (http://www.chargesmart.com/) from a single server to multiple servers, upgrading to latest Apache / Perl / CPAN stack in the process. Created Amazon EC2 based dev environment for each developer, synced via Puppet and svn. Launched new payment site framework on Poet + Mason 2, integrating with VeriFone's SAIL platform. Managed team of four developers initially, then moved to individual contributor role.

Revamped and launched new audio sharing website (http://lexy.com/) using Perl, Catalyst, and jQuery. Significantly improved response time for end users, by replacing Flash with AJAX on the front end and introducing caching and other optimizations on the back end.