Designed and implemented an automated content-tagging system with a 70% tag acceptance rate, creating a new revenue opportunity for sponsored topic pages while adding depth to our audience cohorts

Led an org-wide database mentorship initiative that involved pairing with each backend engineer to teach them about query optimization, leading to 20% faster median response times across all services in just 3 months

Improved the performance review scores of two junior engineers through one-on-one mentorship, coaching, and advocacy - leading to one engineer's promotion in their next eligible promotion cycle

Wrote a guide for safe database migrations which eliminated migration-related outages in 2025

Paired with the Real-Time Coaching team to ensure that their advanced reporting features were performant and delivered on time

Championed the adoption of AWS Aurora, which significantly increased the scalability and resiliency of our production database

Created and facilitated a Postgres course to help engineers across multiple teams level up their database skills

Formalized the first iteration of a mentorship framework for junior developers at Balto

Identified table volume limitations early in our new QA service, developing and carrying out the implementation of a reporting pattern that reduces our volume by a factor of 1,000

Mentored my two newest teammates to ensure that they were able to contribute meaningfully to the team in half of the normal ramp-up time without any significant drop to team momentum

Created and facilitated a short-term working group to address the limitations of our core architecture before the limitations become a problem

Created and facilitated #hack-pack - a group of 35 non-engineers who want to learn to code

Presented at least monthly to our engineering guilds to introduce concepts and patterns

Optimized indexing on our largest table at the time to reduce query times by 90%

Implemented our first load test in order ensure that our most crucial features scale