Senior software engineer with 7+ years building scalable backend services and data driven platforms. Experienced in designing REST APIs, distributed systems on AWS, and improving reliability and observability in production environments. Known for driving cross team delivery and raising engineering quality.

2023 — NowEthisphereSenior Software Engineer

2023 — Now

Designed and drove backend services for a microservices based culture assessment platform using TypeScript, AWS ECS on EC2, and DynamoDB. Built REST APIs for scoring, statistical analysis, and multi dimensional segmentation supporting surveys with up to 100k recipients per engagement.

Architected a distributed rate limiting system (Lambda plus client library with SQS buffering) that processed 100k external API calls with zero dropped requests and introduced first time visibility into third party error rates via SNS alerting.

As Senior Engineer, led cross product SSO integration using custom JWT, authored epics and work breakdowns across teams, refactored legacy Laravel services to improve report generation and test coverage, and mentored engineers on testing and delivery practices

2022 — 2023BeaconsSoftware Engineer II

2022 — 2023

Designed ephemeral QA environments for pull requests enabling automated pre deployment validation

across frontend and backend services

Improved CI CD reliability using GitLab merge trains and release tagging, reducing deployment risk and

manual intervention

Improved reliability of Python data ingestion pipelines by strengthening error handling and production

monitoring with Sentry

Enhanced error handling and monitoring in Python social media scrapers using Sentry

2018 — 2022MicrosoftSoftware Engineer

2018 — 2022

Redmond, WA

Built and maintained automation test infrastructure for Office Group's Mac and iOS products using Python, Azure DevOps pipelines, and bash scripts.

Spearheaded developer excellence initiatives through pair programming and code review practices

Drove system performance improvements through legacy code refactoring and telemetry analysis

Created data visualization solutions using PowerBI for system performance metrics

2017 — 2017MicrosoftAutomation Infrastructure Intern

2017 — 2017

Seattle

assisted development tools for all of Office for Mac developers

refactored python, C, Objective C, and bash legacy code to produce granular telemetry data points

created PowerBI reports to discover most computationally intensive tasks of the system

refocused with team to refactor and improve code execution duration

2016 — 2016Praecipio ConsultingDevelopment Intern

2016 — 2016

Austin

DocuSign x Atlassian JIRA Add-on integration development: “DocuSign for JIRA”

Full stack: coded in Java, worked with Velocity Macros and Soy Templates

Worked in six-man team with Agile methodology and git-flow version control

Earned title of 'Dragon Slayer' for slaying the Atlassian Integration Quest to install and set-up JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Fisheye, and Crucible on a remote server.

Education

2013 — 2017

The University of Texas at Austin

Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.)

2013 — 2017

2016 — 2016

Sungkyunkwan University

Computer Engineering (Semester Study Abroad)

2016 — 2016

2009 — 2013

Seven Lakes High School

High School Diploma

2009 — 2013

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.)

Computer Engineering (Semester Study Abroad)

High School Diploma