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2025 — NowRillaSenior Software Engineer

2025 — Now

New York, New York, United States

2024 — 2025RillaSoftware Engineer II

2024 — 2025

New York, New York, United States

2024 — 2024RillaSoftware Engineer I

2024 — 2024

New York, New York, United States

2022 — 2023FlipboardSoftware Engineer

2022 — 2023

New York, New York, United States

Backend Development, Infrastructure Management, and Data Engineering Practices

Innovating Flipboard's core technologies & processes by:

Streamlining app deployment via Helm, Terraform, and AWS for enhanced efficiency

Creating an API microservice for efficient bulk indexing and searching using AWS OpenSearch

Revitalizing ETLs for usage event processing through Amazon MSK, Apache Spark, Airflow, and a bespoke OpenSearch API, achieving over 50% runtime reduction with some cases up to 75%

Consistently leading the release of new service software updates to production every four weeks, ensuring continuous improvement and enhanced performance

2020 — 2021FlipboardSoftware Engineering Intern

2020 — 2021

Used full-stack engineering to create a user facing endpoint in the web application complete with an API layer, database connectivity and retrieval

Attached a third-party service to the product that now sees >1 million URLs daily

Pushed production grade code, directly reaching and impacting >10 million users per month

Active member of the Core-Services and Infrastructure teams participating in problem solving efforts daily

Education

2017 — 2022

Swarthmore College

Bachelor of Science - BS

2017 — 2022

Swarthmore College

Bachelor of Arts - BA

2017 — 2022

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Science - BS

Bachelor of Arts - BA