• Accelerated testing pipelines by migrating functional test suites to isolated-component testing with Wiremock simulators, reducing regression timelines by 50% and facilitating transition from biweekly release cycles to daily releases.

• Reduced mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-recover for checkout incidents by 80% by implementing flow-based monitoring metrics, improving reliability across payment flows processing $500B+ TPV annually.

• Partnered with product management to deliver checkout enhancements and optimize error handling, improving resilience and user experience across payment flows.

• Drove reliable releases and incident management by coordinating multi-component deployments, and leading critical issue triage; documented root causes and standardized playbooks to improve organizational resilience.

• Promoted engineering excellence by developing a GitHub PR dashboard to monitor outstanding reviews, streamlining code hygiene practices, and mentoring junior engineers across multiple global teams

• Integrated centralized multiplatform HMAC Authentication library into microservice architecture while ensuring endpoints operated over HTTPS

• Led architectural reviews of legacy applications to provide more reliable and consistent support to our stakeholders and eliminate technical debt

• Coordinated with back-end team to quickly resolve log4j zero-day vulnerability in legacy Java applications

• Led efforts to debug, troubleshoot, and roll out fixes for issues experienced by Home Depot scanners by coordinating with Datalogic engineers.

• Implemented GitHub Actions across all repositories to streamline unit testing, as well as code quality and security scans

• Mentored and coached junior engineers through weekly grooming sessions, constructive code reviews, and individual check-ins

• Created machine-learning model to predict which store shelves will need to be packed down using sales and inventory data

• Anchored key security components in multiple software facets to validate customer input, actively prevent cross-site scripting, and configuring our Kafka and ElasticSearch clusters with SASL/SSL

• Revamped and reengineered our customer management microservice for increased performance and reliability with a Cassandra NoSQL persistence and SOLR indexing

• Practiced test-driven development, creating over 500 unit tests and continuously writing and running integration tests with Cypress

• Coordinated with UX Architect and Project Manager to develop new features in order to provide a conducive and streamlined user interface for customers and store associates

• Integrated infrastructure with robust metrics software frameworks to gather performance and benchmark data relating to Kafka’s stability and performance

• Periodically took on after-hours support role to troubleshoot and debug any and all overnight production issues, as well as perform weekly production maintenance

• Promoted inner-sourcing and talent development by giving seminars on variety of subjects, creating pull-requests for other teams’ codebase to integrate seamlessly with ours, and opened our infrastructure to the organization

• Serve as a mentor to provide personal assistance to learners in general courses, as well as in the Pro-Intensive cohorts

• Monitor Slack channel to actively provide assistance to other advisors and answer technical questions

• Review projects submitted by learners and provide clear, actionable feedback in a timely manner

• Enroll and participate in Pro-Intensive cohorts to gain deeper understanding of course material as well as training.

• Built techniques for the Data Quality Management Program to measure, assess, improve, and ensure data sets meet strict benchmarks and is fit for use.

• Automated contract management auditing process to detect data quality issues and built verification analysis and data visualization process

• Incorporated Collibra Data Governance tool to build Enterprise Business Glossary to account for undocumented metadata and online metrics register

• Expanded on several existing Data Flow Diagrams by creating a new level containing information regarding NCR business system for partners