Worked on the Platform team developing the infrastructure of the Rails application powering Shopify Plus

• Reduced front-end load 10x by implementing an event-based architecture in Kafka to replace polling

• Expanded database resiliency monitoring by creating tests to simulate network conditions with Toxiproxy

• Empowered staff to toggle feature flags on large user groups through a full stack tool in Ruby and React

Worked with the News Entertainment Lifestyle team to deliver new interactive widgets across Yahoo platforms

• Developed back-end services to support interactive content for Yahoo News, Commerce and Lifestyle

• Enhanced project modularity by designing a suite of Java libraries to separate back-end logic into a hierarchy of related services

• Reduced inaccurate database entries up to 2x by creating data validation flows before persisting in MySQL

• Introduced user response tracking to persist widget interactions in SQL, based on sign-on sessions

• Assisted in consolidating back-end widget services from various content teams to a uniform set of APIs that can be used across Yahoo platforms

Developed a full stack tool to automate the creation and dispatch of email prompts as Behavioural Nudges for the Humu product suite.

• Created React UI to reduce email scheduling time by 10x and generate emails from tabular data

• Streamlined email generation pipeline using Flask to process template parameters from CMS client and store configurations as Protocol Buffers in BigTable

• Migrated legacy system to multi-threaded distributed environment in Python

• Collaborated with key stakeholders to gather requirements and present feedback of product lifecycle