Maintained and developed backend software responsible for rendering all websites on Squarespace

Developed APIs and data models to support product initiatives and new features

Led performance improvement initiatives, reducing database queries and improving overall render times

• Identified observability gaps of critical production systems and improved observability and alerting using prometheus and grafana

• Used distributed tracing tools such as lightstep and logs to find and eliminate unperformant code, service calls and database queries

• Reduced load to platform by adding various application and response caches

Substantially improved reliability by reducing the occurrence of large bursty traffic spikes and hence the possibility of publicly visible outages

Mentored engineers on developing solutions, writing good code and career development

Other responsibilities such as interviewing, participating in RFCs, on call and incident response