Delivered Search Engine performance improvements resulting in 20% decrease in search response time, reduced rate of timeouts and decreased indexing time by 50% which resulted in increased conversion due to better user experience.

Accomplished consecutive stable peak shopping seasons without performance issues or outages of the Search application.

Managed a 5-member Stability and Performance engineering team and led a sizable (10+) remote team responsible for production support as well as implementing stability and performance features.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams on major initiative to identify system bottlenecks and improve performance in preparation for substantial product catalog expansion

• Collaborated with leadership, architects, program, product and project managers to drive vertical alignment, identify features, design optimal solutions, and define backlog

• Inspired, motivated, and mentored team members and led by example

• Maintained highest code quality and standards by performing and encouraging code review process and unit test coverage resulting in fast delivery, reduced number of defects and no critical production issues

• Designed, implemented and drove to successful delivery a number of Search Engine features and performance improvements utilizing multithreaded and distributed processing

Earned both group and individual recognition with “Macy’s Make Magic” award.

Technology stack: Java, Spring, Solr, Spark, Python, Shell Scripts, REST, Junit

Core team developer responsible for delivery of projects, playing a crucial role in design and development of various search features and services.

• As delivery lead for a sizable offshore team (15+) wrote detailed technical requirements, performed code reviews, collaborated with offshore delivery lead on prioritizing, iteration planning, showcases, and facilitated knowledge sharing of offshore team’s work

• Successfully coordinated delivery of multiple Search projects executed in parallel

• Implemented multiple business and Solr search features

Examples include: Autocomplete functionality which drives 30% of search queries, Merchants rules framework for curated search experience to improve precision of search results, custom Solr sort function

• Designed and implemented keyword search REST service API and collaborated with clients on migration

• Conducted analysis for migration from database backed search engine to Solr

Technology stack: Java, Spring, Solr, JUnit, Spark, Shell Scripts, REST

Developed Partner Integration Platform for Macys.com that included REST services and FTP file feeds to trusted partners.

• Acting in a project lead role, closely collaborating with business analysts and project management, had a key role in architectural design, project and iteration planning, estimations and prioritization, as well as implementation and final delivery

• Developed FTP file feed spring batch job framework with BDB as a front cache

Technology stack: Java, JDBC, Hibernate, BDB, Spring, Spring Batch, JUnit

As part of SEM team, responsible for driving search engine paid traffic to Macys.com, worked on automation of keyword and ad campaign generation including the tools for tracking keyword performance.

Technology stack: Java, JDBC, Spring, Spring Batch, Junit

Worked as part of a small engineering team that rapidly grew traffic and responded very quickly to business needs.

Keyword application built by MyTriggers team generated and classified several million high quality keywords in a very short time.

• Designed and implemented keyword management task engine (generation, submission, bidding etc.) for Yahoo, Google and Ask search engines

• Evaluated, adapted and used a range of open source packages

Technology stack: Java, JDBC, Postgres, Open Source Packages (XStream, Quartz Scheduler, Hibernate, Display Tag Library, various Apache Commons packages), Regex, Cron, JUnits, Awk, Sed, OOP, Design Patterns