» Senior engineer on small team building a custom CMS for VRV admins and partners.

» Exposed CMS data via highly available APIs to mobile, living room and desktop apps.

» Optimized and scaled the APIs after VRV’s launch and during its fastest growth period.

» Worked with petabytes of data in video submission and encoding processes.

» Buzzwords: Go, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Linux, AWS, S3, SQS, Microservices

» Technical Lead Engineer on backend team serving over 1 billion API requests per day.

» Led access pattern optimization efforts to 700 million API requests per day.

» Championed automated testing, continuous integration and microservice efforts.

» Helped grow backend team from 4 engineers to 12 while optimizing throughput.

» Delivered numerous user features, including notification hub and real time messaging.

» Influenced growth and education during doubling of company size and reorganization.

» Scrum master for 6 months during reorganization.

» Buzzwords: Python, Scrum, Cassandra, PHP, NoSQL, Go, MySQL, Docker, NGinx, NSQ, ReST, Pub/Sub, Automation, Concurrency, Tornado.

» Owned Ticketfly's public facing APIs, wrote documentation and assisted third-party developers in consuming the APIs.

» Managed and enhanced Ticketfly's high performance search indexing cluster.

» Implemented and owned Ticketfly's first Apple Passbook implementation.

» Worked closely with coworkers in implementing many features across multiple teams

» Managed the work for one of two teams of eight developers; planned, executed work in a biweekly scrum process.

» Maintained multiple public-facing Linux servers with CDN and reliable four stage deployment system.

» Built and maintained web service APIs for multiple web and mobile clients; refactored in/outbound SMS system.

» Optimized cache, DNS lookups, and overall page load times; combined, shrunk and compressed code.

» Built content creation, search, and test tools for internal use by non-developers; interviewed junior developers.

» Demonstrated leadership, organizational and independent work skills and ability to plan and complete tasks on time.

» Technologies used: Linux, Python, PHP, Drupal, Proprietary CMS, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX.