𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 - 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 2019-2021

• Reduced service errors by 90% through investigation into Istio sidecar memory leaks. This investigation resulted in a fix that impacted every service in the company.

• Designed and implemented redis caching solution that improved P95 latency of agent profile page by 75%

• Identified and resolved PostgreSQL database lock issue, reducing the number of database sev1+2 outages from 3 in 2020 to 0 in 2021. Gave presentation to eng org on findings/recommendations, and published article on Compass engineering blog (see https://medium.com/compass-true-north/postgresql-lessons-we-learned-the-hard-way-663ddf666e4)

𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 - 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 2021-2022

• Managed cross-team project and architected solution to rework our underlying network infra. This change allowed feature teams to host apps from any domain, not just www.compass.com

• Led effort on networking side to deprecate legacy monolith flask app, resulting in more stable and maintainable infra. Cutover was successful, with 0 downtime and no negative latency impact.

• Architected and built a one-way allowlist network bridge between two isolated sections of our infra, working closely with legal and security teams to mitigate legal and security risks.

• Joined Careerlist as the first software engineer hired by the VP of engineering and played a key role in determining the architecture of the application and mentoring subsequent hires

• Deployed a listhost-like email relay service using AWS SES, SQS, SNS, lambdas, and S3 to queue and process messages sent between our users using their email clients

• Enabled full text search in our application by developing schemas and search queries for an Elasticsearch instance synced to changes in our PostgreSQL database

• Created a generic analytics module which hooks into the APIs of Google Analytics, Amplitude, Facebook Analytics, and Heap to collect and analyze UI interactions

• Used React/Redux to build a generic search page component that uses HOCs to sync search state with a uri query string

• Built a system for creating asynchronous functions in python by passing the data to a Google Cloud task queue/Node.js microservice, making certain server requests perform up to 90% faster

• Built and deployed a greenfield Chrome extension for scraping/parsing html, with an engineer-friendly devOps environment with Webpack/Babel/Typescript for transpilation

• Created complex database migrations with SQL to re-architect our data model as we transitioned from a two-way social media-like marketplace to a one-way recruiting platform

• Worked with LAMP stack to complete various projects for three web properties receiving ~150,000 unique visitors per month, with ~50,000 paying subscribers

• Developed process for engineers to set up local development environment

• Developed git workflows for organization

• For three years in a row, over 4/5 of my special education students scored the highest possible score on the state math test.

• My history class was consistently ranked as the top 1 or 2 in the network based on internal assessments.

• Studied nights and weekends while teaching to receive my Masters in Education.