Arlington, Virginia, United States
(Typescript, Java, AWS CDK, AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, AWS DynamoDB, ElastiCache)
• Led the design/development of a distributed livestream ads platform, allowing creation/management of ad enabled livestreams.
• Successfully scaled the platform to support 1.2K TPS for livestreams creation (10X more than project traffic for 1 year).
• Decreased latency for fetching livestreams by 500% (250ms → 50ms) through AWS architecture improvements.
• Designed a canary test system to monitor livestreams every 5 minutes to identify customer impact early.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to integrate 3rd party ads with the livestream platform, resulting in onboarding of 2 major news channels.
• Saved dozens of engineering-hours/week by automating creation of ad-enabled livestreams through a REST API.
• Used AWS CDK to manage and provision AWS infrastructure and deploy to multiple regions.
• Automated the creation of alarms and metrics for core infrastructure to reduce operational overhead.
• Onboarded an engineer and mentored an intern to a successful return offer.