Assumed ownership of payment processing systems following the departure of the sole developer, performing knowledge transfer, stabilizing subscription fulfillment workflows, and ensuring uninterrupted payment operations.

Scaled rewarded video system to increase daily ad engagement by 10%, refactoring a proof-of-concept into a production-grade architecture with persistent data storage, marketing admin tooling, and extensible reward ladder frameworks.

Led backend delivery for company-priority retention initiative, stabilizing core systems and enabling Q4 launch of leaderboard-driven outfit challenge that increased retention and creator engagement.

Hit the ground running to partner with co-hire on entirely new partner integration. Coordinated with and guided partner devs and co-hire on designing API to meet both businesses’ needs. Launched in Q1.

Took ownership of languishing API version migration of largest partner representing 50% of business, facing deprecation deadline in June. Discovered, reported, and scoped missing work from original project plan, amounting to tripling of project size. Refactored core integration systems and automated test suite to simplify enlarged migration project. Delivered with only one month extension.

Enhanced code review process by organizing team reviews to teach and learn what was deserving of scrutiny in team’s codebase.

Mentored team in debugging methodologies and designing testable code, reducing investigation costs and maintenance overhead on refactors.

Delivered full-stack applications in a Node.js/React environment to meet company goals for investment presentations in my first month. Designed and built producer-consumer distributed system for delayed payments in a zero-trust encryption data storage environment in the subsequent two months. Designed and built multi-stage data processing pipeline for performing arbitrary data analytics on large data sets of encrypted documents.

Lead back-end application infrastructure team.

Rescued project to funnel new users into chatrooms with community volunteers. Delivered project in under one month instead of planned two to three by designing and building alternative solution. Achieved 10-15% day 7/day 30 retention.

Drove effort to resolve conflicting parallel implementations of "is my friend online?" between desktop and mobile clients. Identified cause of bad reviews on app stores, lead product meetings to compromise resolution, and designed and built compromise solution. Achieved 1-2 star improvements in mobile app store scores.

Designed and built custom content management system for highlighting community content creators in seasonal sale events, including MySQL backend and internal admin tool as well as client-facing endpoints. Enabled increased click-through to store with correlated purchase volume.

Lead server-side engineering effort for GDPR compliance. Coordinated across multiple teams and made prioritization calls under pressure to maintain velocity despite uncertain requirements, and built the tool for generating GDPR reports. Delivered GDPR compliance in less than a week.

Built and deployed a variety of REST endpoints in PHP and Haskell to support product roadmap needs, handling over 100k concurrent users.

Mentored junior engineers across organization, wrote technical designs, scoped projects, planned team work on quarterly basis, and maintained communication standards with internal stakeholders.

Primarily completed work items for clients as per contracts (back-end Java software development.) Additionally mentored team of junior developers through Spring project, providing guidance and detailed feedback to support their growth and development.