2024 â Now
United States
Accelerated testing pipelines by migrating functional test suites to isolated-component testing with Wiremock simulators, reducing regression timelines by 50% and facilitating transition from biweekly release cycles to daily releases.
Reduced mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-recover for checkout incidents by 80% by implementing flow-based monitoring metrics, improving reliability across payment flows processing $500B+ TPV annually.
Partnered with product management to deliver checkout enhancements and optimize error handling, improving resilience and user experience across payment flows.
Drove reliable releases and incident management by coordinating multi-component deployments, and leading critical issue triage; documented root causes and standardized playbooks to improve organizational resilience.
Promoted engineering excellence by developing a GitHub PR dashboard to monitor outstanding reviews, streamlining code hygiene practices, and mentoring junior engineers across multiple global teams
2021 â 2024
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Integrated centralized multiplatform HMAC Authentication library into microservice architecture while ensuring endpoints operated over HTTPS
Led architectural reviews of legacy applications to provide more reliable and consistent support to our stakeholders and eliminate technical debt
Coordinated with back-end team to quickly resolve log4j zero-day vulnerability in legacy Java applications
Led efforts to debug, troubleshoot, and roll out fixes for issues experienced by Home Depot scanners by coordinating with Datalogic engineers.
Implemented GitHub Actions across all repositories to streamline unit testing, as well as code quality and security scans
Mentored and coached junior engineers through weekly grooming sessions, constructive code reviews, and individual check-ins
Created machine-learning model to predict which store shelves will need to be packed down using sales and inventory data
2018 â 2021
Atlanta, GA
Anchored key security components in multiple software facets to validate customer input, actively prevent cross-site scripting, and configuring our Kafka and ElasticSearch clusters with SASL/SSL
Revamped and reengineered our customer management microservice for increased performance and reliability with a Cassandra NoSQL persistence and SOLR indexing
Practiced test-driven development, creating over 500 unit tests and continuously writing and running integration tests with Cypress
Coordinated with UX Architect and Project Manager to develop new features in order to provide a conducive and streamlined user interface for customers and store associates
Integrated infrastructure with robust metrics software frameworks to gather performance and benchmark data relating to Kafkaâs stability and performance
Periodically took on after-hours support role to troubleshoot and debug any and all overnight production issues, as well as perform weekly production maintenance
Promoted inner-sourcing and talent development by giving seminars on variety of subjects, creating pull-requests for other teamsâ codebase to integrate seamlessly with ours, and opened our infrastructure to the organization
2017 â 2018
Remote
Serve as a mentor to provide personal assistance to learners in general courses, as well as in the Pro-Intensive cohorts
Monitor Slack channel to actively provide assistance to other advisors and answer technical questions
Review projects submitted by learners and provide clear, actionable feedback in a timely manner
Enroll and participate in Pro-Intensive cohorts to gain deeper understanding of course material as well as training.
2016 â 2017
Duluth, GA
Built techniques for the Data Quality Management Program to measure, assess, improve, and ensure data sets meet strict benchmarks and is fit for use.
Automated contract management auditing process to detect data quality issues and built verification analysis and data visualization process
Incorporated Collibra Data Governance tool to build Enterprise Business Glossary to account for undocumented metadata and online metrics register
Expanded on several existing Data Flow Diagrams by creating a new level containing information regarding NCR business system for partners
Education
2018
University of Georgia - Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
2018