• Spearheaded key architecture redesign and delivery, boosting transcoding speeds by 5x and enabling faster time-to-publish for millions of videos.

• Optimized PHP upload and transcode pipelines handling 300k+ uploads per day, increasing reliability and performance for the company's critical video platform.

• Founded and led PHP Guild to establish technical standards and architectural direction across 8+ engineering teams.

• Established and chaired weekly PHP office hours providing technical mentorship and support to 50+ engineers across the organization.

• Rewrote upload infrastructure and implemented new unified cloud upload service, achieving a 30% reduction in upload errors and improving user experience.

• Proactively identified and resolved performance bottlenecks, reducing latency by 5ms for 70% of web requests through self-directed optimization initiatives.

Designed a robust multi-tenancy model and overhauled the roles and permissions framework to support scalable growth, enabling support for 100+ enterprise clients. Enhanced the overall notification experience, reducing redundant notifications by 75% and increasing user engagement metrics. Increased stability of the event-driven architecture by introducing a reliable job queueing system, reducing failed background jobs by 90% and improving platform reliability.

I maintained a network of Java microservices for product information and financial transactions, and developed and implemented updated workflows for warehouse operations

I also built APIs to facilitate integration of company data with third-party resource management software.

* Received award for discovering and fixing long-standing bugs beyond normal expectations

* Built a Hack Week project that was ultimately placed into production

The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City. I worked on several projects while I was there:

• A simple HTTP server in Haskell

• A clone of Space Invaders using C++ and NCurses

• I reverse-engineered and replicated the functionality of the N64 controller using the Teensy microcontroller to randomize inputs to games

• I used Twitter’s API to create a bot that read from my IRC log history and used a custom Markov library to post Tweets

Worked on a team of two to maintain and support the Veea iOS application

Owned back-end integration for company's iOS application, including management of network-related programming in Swift using custom HTTP networking library

Optimized iOS application performance by eliminating memory leaks and choosing optimal data structures/algorithms, resulting in an elimination of leaks

Developed iOS application UI for features including user inbox, favourites, collections, friend searching

Implemented event logging system for tracking user actions throughout the use of the application