Worked with the News Entertainment Lifestyle team to deliver new interactive widgets across Yahoo platforms
•Developed back-end services to support interactive content for Yahoo News, Commerce and Lifestyle
•Enhanced project modularity by designing a suite of Java libraries to separate back-end logic into a hierarchy of related services
•Reduced inaccurate database entries up to 2x by creating data validation flows before persisting in MySQL
•Introduced user response tracking to persist widget interactions in SQL, based on sign-on sessions
•Assisted in consolidating back-end widget services from various content teams to a uniform set of APIs that can be used across Yahoo platforms