•Helped scale LevelUp's payment processing backend from a single monolithic web application servicing thousands of requests per month to a service-oriented architecture that handles hundreds of millions of requests per month.
•Helped grow LevelUp's Platform engineering team from half a dozen people in Boston to more than 25 engineers distributed across the U.S., while maintaining high code quality standards and team cohesion.
* Part of a smaller Platform team that led the engineering efforts behind LevelUp's shift from in-store mobile payments to LevelUp Broadcast, now the largest aggregator of online food ordering services.
•As a senior engineer, independently led design and implementation of large product features. Delegated work to junior team members and kept projects on schedule.
•Worked closely with other Platform engineers on a wide variety of greenfield and brownfield projects, spanning high-level architecture, bug fixes, optimization, operations, and security.
Technologies used: Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, Heroku
