Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building distributed, high-performance cloud systems. Expert in RESTful API design, backend architecture, and scalable data pipelines.

Experience

2020 — 2025BigCommerceSenior Software Engineer

2020 — 2025

Los Angeles County, California, United States

Spearheaded the development of a cutting-edge Image Processing system, utilizing PHP for the API layer, Imagick for image transformations, Redis/MySQL for storage, and AWS S3 for image storage.

Managed importing and exporting client inventory across multiple marketplaces, integrating with REST and GraphQL APIs such as Shopify, Rakuten, Etsy, Facebook, and BigCommerce, and enhancing overall operational efficiency.

Implemented disaster recovery measures by creating ansible scripts for various production servers.

Codeception tests

Mentoring junior developers with regular code reviews and technical assistance

TypeScript/JavaScript for the occasional front-end web development

2018 — 2020Age of Learning, Inc. / ABCmouse.comSoftware Engineer

2018 — 2020

Greater Los Angeles Area

Designing and implementing the entire back-end infrastructure for ReadingIQ and launching it successfully with my team.

Developing API in PHP for rapid transaction applications

Automating processes/jobs for data maintenance

Writing and maintaining performant MySQL queries and databases, and Couchbase documents

Adhering to strict company coding standards

2016 — 2018Faye Business Systems Group, Inc.Software Engineer

2016 — 2018

Woodland Hills, CA

Extensive customization of SugarCRM [Customer Relationship Management] to meet client requirements

Creating custom APIs and added functionality of SugarCRM

Integrating a range of 3rd party software with SugarCRM using APIs or creating the bridge from scratch. Ex: Sage

ERP (via ODBC), Quickbase, Box, PandaDoc

Working full stack (JS, jQuery, MySQL, PHP) on all of the above

2014 — 2016Oremor Automotive GroupDatabase Manager

2014 — 2016

Created MySQL databases with local webpages to manipulate them.

Created complex databases in Microsoft Access using SQL and VB.

Created a review portal for multiple stores; PHP back end to email responses back to the stores

Managing all 13 websites for the group; constantly improving user experience.

Various digital marketing and CRM responsibilities.

Education

2010 — 2013

UCLA

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

2010 — 2013