New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Microservices and packages that make the identity platform and security tools used internally and publicly on the platform:
Refactored Infosec services and packages to align with the Engineering team's initiative to migrate the
platform from a legacy mono-repo to a poly-repo architecture
Conducted regular production deployments and package publishing for all team resources
Enhanced test quality and coverage in the Authorization service by implementing test harnesses based
on an extensive testing matrix
Delivered a new OAuth Clients system of record, a serverless CRUD API for managing OAuth clients in
the latest version of the identity platform
Configured and enabled OAuth Clients SoR for multi-region deployment, enhancing platform resiliency
and availability
Implemented a Kafka streaming pipeline to the OAuth Clients SOR for publishing client creation and
deletion events
Led an Infosec team in a company-wide AI Hackathon, developing a chatbot for answering security and
compliance queries based on company policies and industry best practices
Technologies Used:
TypeScript, Node, Git, Github, GitHub Actions, Datadog, React, OpenApi, SendGrid, Okta, Terraform,
Postman, Jest, Cypress, OpenAI, LangChain, Kafka(Confluent)
AWS API Gateway(REST & HTTP), Lambda, Node SDK, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge, CloudWatch, X-ray,
Cloud Development Kit(CDK), CloudFormation, IAM, KMS, CloudFront, CodePipeline
Jira, Lucid Charts, Miro, UML, Trello and Excel
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Microservices and packages that make the identity platform and security tools used internally and publicly on the platform:
Spearheaded the development of the new User Management Service, a serverless CRUD API integrated
with OKTA as a user datastore and platform IdP
Developed, documented, and evangelized the new user role authorization system of record, utilizing •GitHub Actions, KMS, and S3 for continuous deployment
Reduced end-user risk by incorporating access controls with a CORS whitelist into the core
infrastructure package, enabled by default on all platform APIs interacting with web browsers
Developed a token exchange mechanism in the Authentication Service to ease the transition to the new
Identity platform over the existing legacy platform
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Account microservice and multi-tenant support in the Enterprise initiative to iterate platform into a product to better support large enterprise merchants:
Created a proof-of-concept (POC) view in React to provide Product and Business stakeholders with an
interactive experience for managing multi-tenant accounts in our portals
Participated in cross team design and planning sessions into new Account service and multi-tenant
concerns, from account resource structure and hierarchy to new platform resource naming conventions
Created the data model and DynamoDB schema for the new Accounts service
Leveraged AWS serverless resources to create the Accounts service CRUD API, enabling merchants to
establish organizational structures within the platform
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Localization and Tax microservices supporting the Internationalization initiative:
Played a key role in developing the Localization microservice, a distributed AWS serverless CRUD API
seamlessly integrated with the third-party translation service Translated
Audited consumer-facing services to identify areas of complexity that could hinder localization efforts
Led discussions to evangelize the Localization effort
Guest development refactoring date formatting on consumer facing emails, enabling expansion to new
markets outside of the USA and allowing merchants in Canada to go-live
Configured and deployed a team sandbox environment, addressing pain points from the distributed
nature of the platform
Extensively researched third party tax services to identify if any would meet our unique use case as the
company explored globalization, of needing to display total costs including all tax, but not collecting or being responsible for any tax
Conceived and implemented a serverless CRUD API that enabled business stakeholders to efficiently
input and manage tax rate releases through the service's APIs
Authored an internal blog and demonstration on how to set up AWS NoSql Workbench and showing its
value in data modeling DynamoDB tables
2020 — 2021
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Pioneered the architecture of a SaaS factory platform to streamline the production of multiple SaaS
products using modular serverless components This innovative approach enabled platform members
to contribute their expertise in the form of paid "nano-projects"
Roadmapped the platform development agenda to align with Product and Marketing tracks, accurately
projecting milestones to deliver a highly available and resilient microservice platform
Developed foundational components of the platform's user and function services, laying the
groundwork for a robust and scalable architecture
Embraced a serverless-first approach utilizing AWS offerings to achieve exceptional platform availability
and resiliency This strategy facilitated rapid development and feedback cycles, ensuring alignment
between alpha testers and the development team without compromising reliability, durability, or
scalability
Actively participated in team expansion by conducting interviews for both contract and in-house
development positions
Utilized technical expertise to support company partners and conducted in-depth evaluations of the
technical resources of potential investment opportunities
Technologies Used:
JavaScript, Git, Github, React, OpenApi
AWS API Gateway(REST & HTTP), StepFunctions, Lambda, Node SDK, DynamoDB, S3 CloudWatch,
X-ray, Serverless Application Model(SAM), CloudFormation
Lucid Charts, Jira, Trello and Excel
Education
2018 — 2018
Operation Spark
2018 — 2018
2000 — 2002
University of Maryland
Bachelor of Arts - BA
2000 — 2002