Reduced service errors by 90% through investigation into Istio sidecar memory leaks. This investigation resulted in a fix that impacted every service in the company.

Designed and implemented redis caching solution that improved P95 latency of agent profile page by 75%

Identified and resolved PostgreSQL database lock issue, reducing the number of database sev1+2 outages from 3 in 2020 to 0 in 2021. Gave presentation to eng org on findings/recommendations, and published article on Compass engineering blog (see https://medium.com/compass-true-north/postgresql-lessons-we-learned-the-hard-way-663ddf666e4)

Managed cross-team project and architected solution to rework our underlying network infra. This change allowed feature teams to host apps from any domain, not just www.compass.com

Led effort on networking side to deprecate legacy monolith flask app, resulting in more stable and maintainable infra. Cutover was successful, with 0 downtime and no negative latency impact.

Architected and built a one-way allowlist network bridge between two isolated sections of our infra, working closely with legal and security teams to mitigate legal and security risks.

Deployed a listhost-like email relay service using AWS SES, SQS, SNS, lambdas, and S3 to queue and process messages sent between our users using their email clients

Enabled full text search in our application by developing schemas and search queries for an Elasticsearch instance synced to changes in our PostgreSQL database

Created a generic analytics module which hooks into the APIs of Google Analytics, Amplitude, Facebook Analytics, and Heap to collect and analyze UI interactions

Used React/Redux to build a generic search page component that uses HOCs to sync search state with a uri query string

Built a system for creating asynchronous functions in python by passing the data to a Google Cloud task queue/Node.js microservice, making certain server requests perform up to 90% faster

Built and deployed a greenfield Chrome extension for scraping/parsing html, with an engineer-friendly devOps environment with Webpack/Babel/Typescript for transpilation

Created complex database migrations with SQL to re-architect our data model as we transitioned from a two-way social media-like marketplace to a one-way recruiting platform

Developed process for engineers to set up local development environment

Developed git workflows for organization

My history class was consistently ranked as the top 1 or 2 in the network based on internal assessments.

Studied nights and weekends while teaching to receive my Masters in Education.