Subject matter expert on PostgreSQL. Responsible for reviewing database related changes across all teams and projects. Maintained and upgraded database cloud instances, extended LVM groups and tuned Postgres configs. Wrote and deployed migrations to large production databases with new schema and PL/pgSQL stored procedures. Created microservices with Go and Kubernetes for database statistics, photo geolocation, facial recognition, batch uploading, image hashing and automatic deduplication. Rearchitected services to add Redis caching on access control, added seeking and caching to on-the-fly video transcoding, used Google BigQuery for data warehousing of analytics. Interviewed candidates for backend software engineering roles.

Wrote scripts to load-test and record performance statistics of KVM appliances. Debugged performance issues on Postgres and Influx databases. Coded optimized subclasses for a GSM simulator, achieving a 300-500% increase in performance. Designed a tool to log system statistics into a SQL database.