Austin, Texas, United States
• Promoted to Senior Software Engineer in recognition of exceptional performance and leadership skills.
• Led architectural improvements to Provider Workbench, optimizing performance, scalability, and maintainability through the implementation of best practices and innovative solutions.
• Successfully integrated Provider Workbench with multiple Content Management Systems (CMS), including Drupal and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), ensuring seamless data exchange and content synchronization.
• Played a key role in migrating legacy systems to microservice-oriented architecture, enhancing system flexibility and agility.
• Transformed the Common Translation Service (CTS) by integrating multiple translation providers at the request of business teams, optimizing costs and improving translation efficiency.
• Led the recent integration with Smartling, resulting in a significant cost reduction from an average of 20 cents per word to 12 cents per word for human translations and 5 hundredths of a cent per character for machine translations.
• Achieved a remarkable reduction in turnaround time, with translations now delivered back to the source within approximately 5 minutes, compared to the previous average of 11 days.
• Led all repositories I worked on at IBM as the leading contributor.
• Led the decommissioning of several legacy parts of the Translation stack for CTS, including 2 UI repositories, and ensured that the whole process was fully automated end-to-end.