• Developed software in Go and Ruby to capture traffic from search engines and aid customer acquisition.

• Worked on a collaborative whiteboard built with Django and MarionetteJS enabling tutors to conduct tutoring sessions online with students.

• Improved reliability and reduced complexity of a tutoring session recording tool built in Python that automatically scales up and down depending on the number of sessions in progress.

• Migrated data from Google Cloud Datastore to PostgreSQL on a live website without downtime.

• Deployed an application controlling third party software into a Kubernetes cluster and configured it to prevent utilizing all available resources and automatically restart when the software fails.

• Designed and proposed a new architecture to an existing web service that would decrease response times and increase reliability.

• Worked with product owners to take an idea, design a solution and divide the work into small achievable parts that a team can work on concurrently.

• Implemented a metrics collection solution using Prometheus and Grafana allowing others developers to visualize the health of their services and send alerts if any problems arise.

• Began migration of an in-house websocket based storage service to firebase realtime db to improve performance, increase reliability and reduce maintenance requirements.

Backend software engineer primarily responsible for maintenance and feature development of several Rails based API servers. I also make small feature improvements to both the customer facing react application and the staff facing ember application.

Full stack engineer working on the Goods Engineering team. Our team develops several services responsible for building a catalog of products provided by vendors and publishing those products to the Groupon website for customers to purchase.

The most common technologies used in the services we maintain are Ruby on Rails, for application servers exposing a restful JSON API, and EmberJS, for the vendor facing, product management web UI. We also leverage PostgreSQL and MySQL for data storage, Redis for queuing deferred jobs and Docker for testing and deployment.