San Francisco, California
• Spearheaded the design and development of robust APIs, enabling the seamless sharing of curated Goodreads data with Kindle teams, thereby enhancing their personalization models. Orchestrated the creation of data pipelines for automated data refresh.
• Engineered an administrative tool to efficiently manage access to the Goodreads public API, resulting in an impressive 85% reduction in scraping and abusive usage. This solution eliminated the need for manual intervention, saving multiple development hours during spam attacks. Orchestrated the sunsetting of vulnerable public APIs.
• Orchestrated the strategic design and migration of Authentication and Authorization Services, transitioning from an in-house solution to Amazon Identity Service, serving 1.2 million customers.
• Provided mentorship to summer interns on short-term projects and facilitated the onboarding of full-time engineers within the Foundation Team, guiding them through intricate technical initiatives.
• Technical Stack: Ruby, Java, Rails, MySQL, Various AWS and Amazon Technologies (EC2, DynamoDB, Aurora, RDS, CDK, CFN, Lamba, Cradle, APIGateway, etc.).