Scaled backend infrastructure and tooling during rapid growth phase (pre-Series C, ~30 people). Leveraged TDD to create reliable and performant API endpoints. Successfully led campaign to improve system-wide error-handling and reporting, resulting in seamless removal of all instances of generic error handling throughout the entire backend codebase, with more than half of all files affected. Created automated sitemap-generation script to regularly and efficiently read and document billions of database records for SEO optimization. Created anti-spam framework to track and disable spam accounts based on IP address and pattern-recognition in request structures. Initiated development on a graph-database for efficient social-network style querying between billions of records – initial development included creating migration scripts and building bespoke and complex queries in the Gremlin Query Language. Helped onboard junior engineers, fielding questions about the codebase and providing general guidance when needed.