Took responsibility for creating technical implementation plans for major projects for product area responsible for 33% of total revenue. Increased sales and customer retention with AI augmentation features using RAG, vector databases, LLM calls.

Primary owner of backend technology stack, Django API, Redis cache, RabbitMQ / Celery workers, MySQL dbs, and AWS stack.

Improved and supported a Django API deployed in AWS, managed with Chef, using Redis as a caching system and Celery / RabbitMQ as an async message delivery system.

Worked closely with product teams to manage delivery schedules and coordinate timely releases of new features. Responsible for dev-ops duties including deployment and on-call support. Utilized Agile development methodolgoies focused on ownership from concept to deploy and support, including full test coverage.

Key Accomplishments:

• Improved app stability and reduced error rates by deploying an application-level monitoring tool, which required forking and extensive update of the chef recipe

• Created a visualization system using Javscript D3 for creation and editing our custom built Surveys

• Designed and implemented a data pipeline that gathered refill and pharmacy data, validated data integrity, and made it available to clients using RESTful endpoints written in Django Rest Framework

• Built an authentication system to meet partner requirements, allowing granular permissions to user-data based on customizable verification parameters

• Designed and deployed an internal dashboard, built with React+Redux+Immutable, giving business managers quick access to analytics data

Built high quality retail solutions along the entire stack: PHP backend to Backbone/Marionette frontend, and a Python micro-service for forwarding real-time messages.

Key accomplishments:

• Headed a team to rebuild our customer facing display using Marionette.js and websockets to sync with the backend

• Reduced overall database query time by 30% by leveraging caching and optimizing SQL queries