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