Backend Development, Infrastructure Management, and Data Engineering Practices

Innovating Flipboard's core technologies & processes by:

• Streamlining app deployment via Helm, Terraform, and AWS for enhanced efficiency

• Creating an API microservice for efficient bulk indexing and searching using AWS OpenSearch

• Revitalizing ETLs for usage event processing through Amazon MSK, Apache Spark, Airflow, and a bespoke OpenSearch API, achieving over 50% runtime reduction with some cases up to 75%

Consistently leading the release of new service software updates to production every four weeks, ensuring continuous improvement and enhanced performance

• Used full-stack engineering to create a user facing endpoint in the web application complete with an API layer, database connectivity and retrieval

• Attached a third-party service to the product that now sees >1 million URLs daily

• Pushed production grade code, directly reaching and impacting >10 million users per month

• Active member of the Core-Services and Infrastructure teams participating in problem solving efforts daily