Payments Infrastructure

• First engineering employee at early-stage “stealth mode” startup building nutrition and wellness products

• Designed, scoped and specced software architecture, product data model and API, external data integrations, etc

• Developed full stack product prototypes, cloud infrastructure and internal tools in JavaScript, Python and Elixir

• Proposed, designed and led implementation of highly available, type-safe dynamic configuration system

• Diagnosed and resolved stability issues, e.g. improved Redis performance 4x while reducing server costs 20%

• Directed overhaul of marketing website infrastructure and deployment process, reducing downtime over 10x

• Oversaw the operations pager rotation; prioritized and developed improvements in on-call scripts and tools

• Built full-stack product functionality and developer tools in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Scala

• Designed and built a portable, scalable continuous deployment system with Docker and Capistrano

• Implemented message queue troubleshooting for a microservice-based node.js app with Redis

• Created a generic “deferred actions” module for Mailbox, including the “send later” command

• Taught a weekly discussion section of Programming Abstractions and held weekly office hours

• Debugged, graded, and provided feedback on 106A, 106B, 106X students’ Java and C++ programs

• Led orientation workshops and training exercises for new Section Leaders