Tech lead for Apollo GraphQL Federation data layer, responsible for:

• production deployments

• performance enhancements

• scaling architecture

• CICD automation

• infrastructure monitoring

• client onboarding

• expanding micro services

• Automated client team onboarding processes to reduce friction for adopting Apollo GraphQL backend service; reducing average deployment cycles by 35% per year.

• Ideated cross team initiative focused on surfacing key metrics to be upstreamed from React Native applications to global data warehouses; enriching machine learning and business intelligence teams with with defined data entities across 100+ micro applications.

Design and develop a cross-platform backend capable of supporting applications focused on massive social engagement and innovative multiplayer experiences.

• Proposed, designed, and developed backend platform utilizing AWS GameSparks, Lambda, and Fargate, minimizing DevOps costs by $500,000 annually.

• Collaborated with client engineering team to develop multiplayer online cross platform application using JavaScript, Node.js, Redis, and MongoDB.

• Automated and streamlined design-driven data pipeline using Jenkins, shortening development time by 30%.

• Designed and implemented data analytics pipeline using AWS Lambda and Redshift to improve projected user retention rates by 35%.

• Provided in depth expertise for designing and coding new content features for existing products utilizing JavaScript, Objective-C, Memcached, and SQL, increasing product revenue by $25,000 monthly.

• Managed engineering team of 5 using Agile method, fostering collaborative learning environment, reducing employee turnover by over 50%.

• Planned product roadmap based on user analytics from Tableau to exceed monthly revenue forecasts by over 100% for 2 full quarters.

• Transitioned new engineering team during company acquisition by teaching scalable backend architecture using PHP, Memcached, and MySQL, reducing projected transition time by 50% (from 4 months to 2 months).

• Implemented and deployed new content features monthly using PHP, JavaScript, Objective-C, and jQuery to grow hit mobile game (Castle Age) on the iOS App store to annual revenue of $25 million.

• Overhauled backend infrastructure of live application using data-driven architecture, improving loading times by 20%.

• Performed code reviews for team members to optimize for scalability using Phabricator and pair programming which increased feature development velocity by 25%.

• Injected performance and load tests to identify underutilized servers with Linux cron jobs and shell script, minimizing server costs by $20,000 annually.

• Implemented modular API system to harvest content from social networks with public API using PHP, achieving 20% increase in data user analytics inflow.

• Performed daily QA smoke testing to resolve bugs with PHP and Excel, reducing operating costs by $80K annually.