Technical lead of Search Platform Team, which provides scalable back-end search solutions for all Shutterstock media collections, totaling over 300 million assets. Our team optimizes for metrics including queries-per-second, query latency, and indexing time.

• Led the design and review of a new event-driven and service-oriented architecture for the search indexing pipeline with the goal of decoupling it from a monolith RDMS dependency.

• Migrated the on-prem Solr cluster to SolrCloud in AWS using Terraform, Packer, and AWS Lambda resulting in dramatically lower latencies and increased stability.

• Proposed and implemented a solution to separate retrieval of search result counts from ranked result pagination, leading to optimizations of high-result search queries.

• Implemented process improvements including postmortem best practices, documentation backlog, rotating team responsibilities, and 10% personal project time.

• Meet with a diverse array of search stakeholders to define requirements, priority, and estimated level of effort for projects.

• Collaborate with management to balance team development time between business opportunities, tech debt, and stability issues.

• Interview and onboard new engineers and software development managers.

• Train peers on software development process, data-driven decision making, interviewing, and response to live production issues.

Individual contributor on Search Platform Team.

• Migrated the primary Solr cluster to a sharded solution for horizontal scalability and lower latencies.

• Migrated the search indexing pipeline to use a component-based storage solution enabling the search index to be rebuilt with new features in 1 day instead of several weeks.

• Migrated the primary search web application from a legacy Perl/Dancer stack to Java/Jetty for better scalability and testability.

• Authored Java libraries to abstract metrics gathering, A/B testing, and common unit test scenarios.

• Trained peers on the Java language, core API, and relevant frameworks/tools.

• Rotated on-call to respond to live production issues.

• Server-side development of private CMS web/mobile apps for celebrities with syndication to major social sites, analytics tools, and streaming of social site data for push notifications.

• Server-side development of corresponding public consumer web/mobile apps for fans providing content in heterogenous feeds and customized emails to 1 million+ users.

• Redesign of core application data-access tier; author of remote object cache framework with support for generic type safety, batch loading, pagination, and asynchronous warming.

• Technical lead of Elasticsearch integration for text-based search solution.

• Technical lead of Amazon Redshift integration for data warehousing solution.

• Resident Java "expert"; best practices and documentation advocate; Guava proponent.