Stream Infrastructure (Kafka Team)

• owned and operated Kafka for all of Stripe, maintaining 99.9999% availability

• built core components of the Kafka control plane MVP

• migrated Kafka-related services and clients from dedicated VMs to Kubernetes

• liaison for security and compute teams

• onboarded new hires and interns

• technologies: Kafka, Scala, Kubernetes, Temporal, gRPC, AWS, Python, Ruby, Terraform, Puppet, Zookeeper

• designed event-based architecture and led the full-stack development of the Terminal application

• wrote and optimized advanced SQL queries for append-only tables, text/json search, and more

• maintained and optimized ETL jobs for performance and reliability

• managed AWS resources, monorepo build and deployment pipelines, and monitoring

• ​​technologies: Scala, Play framework, PostgreSQL, React, Redux, Python, Flask, Spark, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS ECS, AWS RDS, AWS Kinesis, Metabase, GitLab CI/CD

Revenue Development

• built a self-service web tool for native ads

• integrated new ad formats and third-party ad networks across web, iOS, and Android

• built diagnostic tooling and scripts

• technologies: Scala, Finagle, Javascript, React, Ember, Clojure, Google DoubleClick