Digital Services Expert recruited by the United States Digital Service to advise on the integration of modern software engineering best practices into federal agencies.

• Helped review and launch National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD).

• Working across vendors nationally to help define and launch the first Housing and Urban Development's REST API

Senior Software Engineer - Foundations

Technologies and Tools:

• Internal high-throughput low-latency async processing framework (Monster)

• Scala, Ruby/Sorbet, Bazel, Kubernetes

• Protobuf/BSON, gRPC

• Developer Productivity Tools, Legacy Code

• SignalFx, Splunk, EC2

Key Concepts:

• Distributed Systems, Asynchronous Processing Infrastructure

• Cross-Functional Documentation

• Tech Debt Management

• High-Stakes Low-Latency Scenarios

• Functional Programming, Ruby Type Systems

Major Projects:

• Service Migration: Planned and executed a migration with a small team that saved approximately $1M annually.

• Kubernetes Migration: Assisted in migrating an internal service used by 60% of teams at Stripe to Kubernetes.

• High-level Stakeholder Management: Drove organizational clarity during major Strip-wide observability updates.

• Team Processes: Designed and advocated for effective team processes

Technologies and Tools:

• Python, Airflow, Ruby, Rails

• Docker, Nomad, Kafka, Kafka Connect

• Terraform, Git

Cloud and External Services:

• AWS (SNS/SQS, S3)

• Confluent Kafka

• Zendesk, Eligible

Key Concepts:

• Event-Driven Architecture

• Test-Driven Development (TDD)

• Observability, Data Ingestion Pipelines

• 508a Accessibility, PHI and PII Compliance

• Pair Programming

Major Projects:

• Data Mesh Initiative: Led discovery, technology/vendor selection, and tooling to improve support for internal event-driven infrastructure.

• Developer productivity: Created experimentation and monitoring tools to enhance developer productivity.

• Data Model Changes: Implemented organizational data model changes for improved data management.

• Internal Tools: Built tools to streamline patient transitions across customer populations.

• Team Management: Managed team velocity and tech investment/discovery