Working on the pricing team

Mentored engineers on career growth as Individual Contributors. Featured on Majority of work podcast(https://majorityofwork.buzzsprout.com/2344229/15063377-02-how-to-actually-get-promoted-more-with-rodney-matambo).

Mentored 25+ engineers in areas of: technical writing, problem identification, technical execution, and presentation.

some examples of the open source projects mentored on in the last few years(happy to make introductions):

• CI/CD Pipeline for microservices -- https://seamless-cicd.com

• Feature flagging framework focused on audience targeting -- https://fana-io.github.io

• Scalable API Load Testing Framework -- https://artemis-load-testing.github.io

• Real-time monitoring framework for CDNs -- https://canopy-framework.github.io

• Real-time Collaboration Framework -- https://syncosaurus.github.io

• Leading a team (including Designer, PM, & one other Senior Engineer) to rebuild the payment flow to allow students to book multiple tutoring sessions in a single purchase, driving significant ARR impact. (React, Node, TypeScript, Express, PostgreSQL)

• Led a team of engineers in an end-to-end creation of a new type of Outschool Classroom product, unlocking new class formats and establishing the product as a critical tool within the company which resulted in $2 million+ in ARR within 3 months of release.

• Led implementation of a waitlist feature for classes and modified critical payment workflows, increasing revenue by generating thousands of additional learner enrollments.

• Identified and improved inefficiencies throughout the codebase including: GraphQL usage and database optimizations(querying, indexing & transactions) and advanced JavaScript features (e.g. async generators) leading to reduced outages and improved query read speeds.

Gatsby was acquired by Netlify and I’m one of the engineers that were kept after the acquisition.

Working on the Netlify Connect team

• Actively worked as a bridge between teams and as an explorer in order to test new tools for our team and improve our product.

• leading the end to end development of ‘Standalone Connect’ a product that integrates Gatsby and Netlify cloud in order to create a graphql api based on multiple data sources (planning, communicating, and implementing projects of increasing complexity) (Node, Ruby on Rails, React, K8s, Docker, Graphql, Rest) leading to several million dollars in pipeline generation.

• Leading the integration efforts of Gatsby Cloud with Netlify Cloud for Netlify Connect allowing us to have very aggressive deadlines in terms of releasing the Netlify Connect product

• integrating cross platform permissions, APIs, database schemas and more to work between Gatsby Cloud and Netlify Cloud (JWTs, PostgreSQL, Prisma.io, Node, Authentication, authorization, Secret Management, GCP)

• Onboarded and mentored junior and more senior engineers onto projects while teaching Kubernetes, State machines, api design, building systems for scaling and test driven development(Leadership, Planning, mentoring) leading to noticeable multi team impact and productivity

Introducing more advanced bugs to everything git providers, authentication, logging and payments at Gatsby.

• Led the design and implementation of microservices that contains the business logic of Gatsby’s flagship product Valhalla: Elasticsearch, Redis, k8s, Docker, Typescript, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Nginx, websockets.

• Led a team of engineers in the end to end redesign of our payments offering: Stripe, typescript, k8s, NodeJS, react

• worked with multi-cluster Kubernetes setups in debugging customer issues and building out further products.

• led the end to end backend development of Site transfer functionality: Permissions, Payments, Git Providers.

Some useful skills: Kubernetes, NodeJS, Graphql, GCP, React, API development, GitHub(and GitLab, & BitBucket), Stripe, PostgreSQL, goLang.