Key Technologies: Scala, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, AWS Services + Terraform

• Hired to work on product features, but quickly shifted to focus on scalability and reliability challenges

• Introduced APM to the organization and led instrumentation of the existing code with OpenTracing + DataDog

• Replaced RabbitMQ with Kafka for one high-throughput use case, coordinating the rollout and sharing Kafka expertise with the team

• Rearchitected and rewrote a complex data ingestion pipeline to achieve more consistent performance, more self-explanatory code, and better future extensibility

Key Technologies: Go, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Mesos, AWS Services + Terraform

• Architected and implemented most of the back-end services for New Relic Infrastructure, a SaaS product surfacing high-granularity metrics, configuration, and state from agents installed on customer machines

• Served as the lead of the back-end team, balancing ongoing reliability work with new feature development

• Made significant scalability improvements to the system as needed over 18 months of +20% monthly product growth, with a heavy focus on preventing recurrences of problems and avoiding them in the first place

(Acquired by New Relic)

A continuation of my role at UrbanCode, serving as technical lead for the UrbanCode Deploy product: https://developer.ibm.com/urbancode/products/urbancode-deploy

Primary Responsibilities:

Providing technical guidance to a growing team of developers

Ensuring that a growing and complex codebase remains stable, clean, and maintainable by establishing best practices, peer reviews, and flexible frameworks

Designing new features and performance/scalability enhancements

Supporting sales and services initiatives

Balancing work on new functionality with requirements to meet new post-acquisition corporate standards

And still, writing a whole lot of code