Shifted development to a spec-first mentality. Created a repository to manage OpenAPI specs and facilitate review. Added an internal documentation website (Swagger UI) to facilitate review, as well as a versioned NPM package with SDK’s, validators, and types

Extended routing capabilities to include 3rd party partners, ultimately achieving over 1 million 3rd party fulfillments while still maintaining a consistent API and patient experience

Consolidated internal service-to-service authentication strategy, moving to signed JWT’s and internal service identifiers

Built local k8s development environment, enabling complex cross-service testing without the need of cloud resources. Further, ensured management and implementation of this environment was as prod-like as possible

Created IaC platform empowering IC’s to self-serve infrastructure requests, while still maintaining centralized change control. Wrote case studies and gave internal workshops on best practices, e.g. service-to-service communication, secret management

Introduced application performance monitoring, including across microservices. Shipped proof-of-concept to production using simple open source tools. Created dashboards to gauge product success and find opportunities for improvement

Created and ran monthly Engineering technical talks - “Too Technical Tuesday” - with rotating speakers

Grew Diagnostics engineering and product team from 0 to 10. Ran workshops and knowledge shares to efficiently onboard new engineers.

Launched multiple Diagnostic programs representing significant ARR - on track to 10x that early 2022.

Provided north star vision for microservices using Domain Driven Design and formalizing communication through service interfaces, with aggregation in its own layer.

Consolidated disparate API’s into one unified surface and created a strategy for ongoing abstraction improvements.

Redirected API efforts towards better abstractions, less ambiguous resources, and products rather than one-offs.

Built and open sourced TypeScript packages balancing performance and conciseness against team’s experience level (https://github.com/liveramp/typed-mutations, https://github.com/liveramp/higher-order-promise)

Defined architectural patterns and best practices to ensure robust, typed code and clear business logic.

Realized various performance increases via database optimizations and paradigm shifts, resulting in 50x speedups on critical user paths.

Lead quality and reliability initiatives to enable proactive resolution of escaped issues.

Mentored team members in various programming paradigms and practices.

Mentored engineers in adoption of functional programming techniques, and made sure patterns employed were understood by everyone responsible for the code.

Advocated and implemented best programming practices regarding data handling and resilience, such that our business logic was both readable and statically verifiable.

Created and maintained a stable test environment, training members of the team on how to use it to ensure their newest features integrated well together. This environment was largely self-service allowing members to spin up staging servers on demand.

Implemented and launched the back end for the Savings product, which included keeping 20+ people aligned and synchronized.