Designed and developed a new set of backend Java REST APIs for supporting Apple Music content uploads.

Fun fact: Pressing Option + Shift + K on a Mac will produce the  logo.

Content Delivery Services, aka how stuff gets on the App Store/Apple Music/Podcasts/etc.

First engineer on team hired into the Seattle office. Interviewed dozens of candidates and helped expand the local Content Ingestion team presence from one to four engineers.

Engineering lead for Marketplace Ads. Led team of two other engineers on feature development for supporting multiple campaigns for vendors, bidding for ads, and vendor self-service tools. Improved development systems to utilize Ci/CD and kubernetes for service deployment.

Later took ownership of the Marketplace Order Processing and Billing system and led development for improvements to 3rd party integrations related to payments, fraud, and reverse logistics.

Second engineer and employee in the Houzz Santa Monica office. Conducted over 100 technical interviews and mentored new hires to grow the local engineering team from 2 to 12 over the first year.

Rebuilt Marketplace Ads backend from a PHP monolith to java microservices for ads serving and campaign management, and developed a brand new react front-end campaign management app in React and Node.js.