Worked closely with VP of Product to refine functionality and designs

Led SOC2 research and implementation across domains

Led home-rolled to Auth0 migration

Did gap analysis on external consultants work across our Federated Data Platform and create design and implementation docs for the consultants to execute

Developed RAG pipelines with Vector and Semantic Search and OpenAI's LLM (ChatGPT) with Python in Azure Synapse and Typescript (Node.js) designed to give valid GraphQL queries based on user questions about data. E.g. How many tickets were sold last game?

Developed data normalization, transformation and indexing pipelines in Azure Synapse for running on Spark clusters

Implemented Lucene queries for advanced user search

Planned and executed schema changes to transform management system from single organization and single application to multi-tenant and multi-application implementing a revised ERD with 40+ relations

Implemented Mapbox with polygons, heatmaps, directional activity logs, custom map pins with MUI icons and more for human analytics in React (Next.js).

Implemented GeoJSON features in MongoDB with Nest.JS and Mongoose

Built a low-level proxy server in Go to implement our system-wide ABAC in front of Streamlit a platform for developing with LLMs

Fixed various Kubernetes, ACR, and AKS related issues including under-provisioning of services, secrets issues, improper config and more

Served as SME for backend and Github Actions based CI/CD pipeline unblocking other engineers as needed

Led a small team of 3 engineers to develop custom KPI dashboard for Chief Innovation Officer & shipped in a month

Rapidly prototyped a NestJS solution to stand-in for an experimental framework that I determined was not production ready and trained 30+ engineers across India and the US on the new framework

Owned the backend TypeScript & NestJS codebase, reviewing and merging over 1000 PRs, setting the standard for code quality

Created training materials and held organization wide meetings to train and upskill team members across the US and India on various topics such as TypeScript, NestJS, better unit testing and ProtoBuf

Architected authn and authz with ABAC, JWT refresh and access tokens and integrated with third parties such as TicketMaster

Spearheaded adoption of DataDog for enhanced observability and GitHub Actions for CI/CD

Authored our organizational code style guide for TypeScript on the backend

Worked with the creator of the JavaScript federated microservices framework (Aegis) to come up with a roadmap to improve performance and the developer experience

Collaborated with PwC consultants to design and deploy scalable federated data platform built with GraphQL and integrate with our backend services

Engineered pub/sub system for real-time NHL game updates supported by Azure Event Hub working through the challenges of live sports scoring data integrity issues and real-time updates

Implemented Redis caching solution for endpoints affected by events at the Honda Center reducing backend load

Introduced ElasticSearch to the organization and built the first search microservice in NestJS and TypeScript now used as the primary search on a website with over 2,000,000 monthly visitors (alle.com)

Introduced Go, Postgres, gRPC and GraphQL based microservice that served as the source of truth for our most important schema (Provider). This microservice integrated with PostGIS for geolocation, SendGrid via SQS and SNS for transactional emails, image upload via Signed URL Upload to Amazon S3 and more. The service was a large addition to the organization's already large federated graph

Helped found the GraphQL Council after pointing out a need for a proper schema review with written standards and documentation after creating the first microservice since MVP. The GraphQL committee sets GraphQL standards for the organization and reviews all GraphQL changes across a federated schema with over 20 unique microservices contributing to the graph

Created Miro boards, Medium articles and other training materials and presented in front of 60+ engineers to teach, train and evangelize using Go with the overall goal of improving developer experience and reducing bugs shipped

Worked very closely with product to hash out requirements and amend current requirements educating product on the capabilities of our stack which includes ElasticSearch

Interviewed candidates for culture and technical knowledge

Mentored non-technical founding CTO and other engineers on application design, architecture, infrastructure, and best practices in JavaScript

Planned and lead the initiative to convert WebSockets used semi-RESTfully to HTTP REST which removed memory leaks in the NodeJS application and significantly improved latencies improving the user experience

Planned and lead the initiative to take long-running non-critical third-party API calls out of our controllers and onto queues further improving latencies and user experience

Planned and lead the initiative converting deprecated and unsupported RethinkDB to Postgres which solved their periodic crashing issue

Convinced CTO and team to convert to Typescript and lead implementation which drastically reduced bugs shipped with the team

Implemented backend New Relic tracing and Sentry alerts to provide performance and error insights

Implemented ES Lint with the AirBnB style guide, refactored codebase accordingly and held meetings to train on ESLint and the Airbnb Style Guide which further reduced bugs shipped

Planned, designed, and led the creation of a new Ruby on Rails microservice to authenticate and publish notifications to Microsoft Teams

Lead the creation of a new RBAC user role called 'fan' across 13 microservices which allowed non-sales players to celebrate wins with the sales teams along with birthdays and anniversaries

Implemented transactional emails using a pub/sub architecture and SendGrid, hand-coded templates in RBS, HTML and CSS following the design given to us by the UX designer