» 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.