Self-starter, Ex-Amazon, Ex-StubHub with early-stage startup experience, B.S, M.S.
Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
Remote
• Architected advisor notification system using Typescript, GraphQL, Postgres, AWS SQS, ECS, and SES saving advisors hours per week and scaling how many members a single advisor could manage
• Optimized scalability of GraphQL API, reducing latency 10x while supporting 10x more data per query
• Architected authentication system for users, B2B orgs, bots, and developers with MFA using Cognito
• Optimized User List API latency from 5s for 150 members to 500ms for 2000 members by (1) leveraging bulk queries, (2) adding caching layers, and (3) reducing system calls
• Introduced async CQRS system with SQS, ECS, Postgres and TS to sync and link member finances in real-time
• Processed 100+ GB of customer financial data (>28MB/day/customer) using Postgres and S3, and ETL Jobs
• Built data pipelines integrating Plaid and eMoney APIs with Postgres, AWS RDS, S3, SQS, and ECS
• Implemented centralized logging across all backend using AWS CDK, Grafana, Cloudwatch, and Kinesis
• Optimized deployments by reducing container push times from 30 minutes to 2 minutes and cutting sprint-wide deployments from over 3 hours to under 1 hour using GitHub Actions, AWS CDK, and Bash scripts
• Managed application domains and deployments using AWS Route53, AWS CDK, ECS, and AppRunner
• Implemented API firewall, bot detection, network isolation, and AWS SSO using Twingate, AWS WAF, VPC, EC2, IAM, CloudFormation and API Gateway to strengthen security for SOC 2 compliance
• Enhanced frontend with Next.js, React, and TypeScript, improving customer workflows by reducing clicks, streamlining state management with React Hooks and urql, and lowering API calls for faster page loads
• Integrated chat message with Agentic RAG AI framework using Python, SNS, SQS, OpenAI, and ECS
2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
Irvine, California, United States
• Delivered seller tooling for ticketing marketplace using C#, JS, TS, Azure, AWS, Microsoft SQL, and Open AI
• Communicated actively with customers regarding software fixes and enhancements
• Coordinated with leadership to improve cross-team communication, task delegation, and estimation
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
Remote
• Managed 10s of petabytes (PBs) of self-driving sensor and operational data for data infrastructure team
• Designed end-to-end and integration tests using Docker and Jenkins to improve maintainability code quality
• Optimized SQL queries reducing memory usage from GBs to MBs and processing time from minutes to sec’s
• Expanded documentation with runbooks and structured design documents to better share team knowledge
• Established team processes to enhance team productivity, communication, and knowledge sharing
• Mentored engineers to improve productivity and expand understanding of engineering concepts
• Improved developer experience and system testing using Docker, Docker python library, and venv
• Consulted on large front-end refactor using ReactJS state management with redux and react hooks
• Coordinated across teams to fix networking issues in Kubernetes on EKS and network load balancers in AWS
• Investigated issues in Airflow and Spark for data processing resulting in improved reliability and speed
• Implemented new monitors and alerts in DataDog to monitor health of data systems
2021 — 2022
2021 — 2022
Seattle, Washington, United States
• Designed kotlin library for SQL analysis and trans-compiling
• Directed and delegated tasks to a team of 3 other engineers
• Designed date-time compiler analysis using composite pattern and integrating with AWS Redshift
• Enhanced operational excellence by introducing various test suites using testng and junit
• Designed builder pattern to encapsulate regex validation of SQL to greatly improve extensibility of test suite
• Implemented CI/CD pipeline with integration testing designed to ensure operational excellence
• Managed and deployed back-end infrastructure changes using AWS CDK
• Debugged event-driven AWS code to improve operational testing for internal legal software
• Analyzed effort to implement new customer-facing feature and provided estimate and design
2020 — 2021
2020 — 2021
Pasadena, California, United States
• Extending features of microservices using NestJS, Golang, and Domain-Driven-Design
• Integrated 3rd party APIs in NestJS and TypeScript service including (but not limited to) google-drive api, dropbox api, box, and microsoft graph api
• Devised in-house software utility to update C# projects saving hundreds of hours of senior engineering effort
• Collaborated with senior engineering and architecture to improved CI/CD pipeline using AWS ECR and Jenkins
• Designed algorithmic bipartite graph analysis to provide better understanding of customer use-cases for the sake of optimizing rendering performance
Education
UC San Diego
Master’s Degree
UC San Diego