• Architected and implemented a RESTful API in Rails to serve a diverse variety of front-end products, each with a unique set of business requirements.

• Developed a back-end caching strategy and optimized performance to sustain API loads generated by over 20 million page views per month and spikes of up to 10,000 requests per minute.

• Integrated Kitchen Equipment Reviews feature with Amazon’s affiliate revenue program.

• Built front-end pages from composites provided by the Design/UX teams using React and jQuery.

• Reduced technical debt – upgraded Rails, reduced test suite runtime from ~80 mins to ~10 mins.

• Contributed to team discussions about SDLC process, continuous integration workflows, release strategies, Agile and business tradeoffs.

• Prototyped a recommendation engine using collaborative filtering (a machine learning technique).

▪ Worked as a Full-Stack Ruby on Rails Developer on a network of sites with over 6 million users

▪ Integrated existing equipment review feature with Amazon’s affiliate program

▪ Improved back-end systems and worked with the PostgreSQL database

▪ Built front-end pages from the design team’s photoshop composites

• Designed a step based development environment provisioning framework in Python to automate what used to be a 2-4 week manual setup process.

• Created a database decompression utility in C# that was used to resolve a production incident.

• Built a Python utility that cross-referenced a list of scheduled production jobs against Splunk event log data to find unstarted or incorrectly scheduled jobs

• Developed several Java programs that used Atlassian’s Jira API.