• Responsible for the maintenance and support of client facing API layer for ESPN Mobile app

• Collaborate with multiple client teams at ESPN to implement enhancements and improvements to the ESPN app, ensuring alignment with user needs and platform consistency

Disney/ESPN Paywall –

• Built new functionality for Disney/ESPN’s paywall service to support off-device plan selection and purchase across Apple, Google, and living room TV platforms, reducing transaction fees and saving ESPN 30% per transaction.

• Enabled seamless transactions for products like UFC PPV events, ESPN+, and the Disney bundle, driving engagement from millions of users and contributing to millions of dollars in revenue.

• Maintained and enhanced ESPN’s paywall service by fixing critical bugs and delivering new features and API endpoints based on evolving business requirements.

ESPN Where to Watch –

• Designed, built, and maintained the Where to Watch feature in the ESPN app, ensuring seamless integration and scalability for millions of users; drove the feature from development to production.

• Tech Stack: Java, Groovy, Kotlin, Spring, Tomcat, Git

• Led several cost-saving initiatives on AWS, which involved implementing retention policies for S3 resources and enhancing

API call response times

• Designed, deployed, and managed ETL pipelines for clients overseeing extensive property portfolios, comprising thousands

of properties, enabling efficient data processing and informed decision-making

• Automated the creation and storage of a production RDS database snapshot in AWS S3 using AWS Lambda, and leveraged

• AWS Athena to facilitate query execution for reporting, empowering the implementation and data science teams

• Building out new features on the backend platform with microservice architecture and high user traffic throughput

• Designed and implemented a Web Socket interface to allow for bi-directional communication between users and the server for features such as chat and real time event notification systems

• Implemented an in-app profanity system which prevents users from creating inappropriate usernames

• Consistently deploying code and database updates to production while assuring high availability and latency for users

• Worked across a large microservice based architecture to implement and maintain REST API endpoints using Spring and Java 17

• Designed and built out microservice to help automate the process of onboarding new customers

• Designed and engineered email attachment feature to aid in dispatching documents to our users

• Lead security audit of all microservices to ensure data privacy

• Utilized MongoDB as the backend server

Research Projects

• Predicting the Impact of Disasters using Social Media Analysis

• Quantopian Stock Portfolio Optimization For Risk Assessment

• Galaxy Detection Using Image Detection and Classification

• Improving Machine Learning Model Optimization for Better Performance