• Managed a team of six engineers and expanded to eight engineer spanning midlevel to staff level engineers

• Initiated cross team project to split read traffic to DB replicas to improve write performance leveraging AWS Aurora.

• Strategized and led experiments to increase throughput of API by ~20% and provided biweekly updates to C-Suite

• Introduced and led initial implementation work for a forward proxy caching layer to reduce latency.

• Spearheaded AWS skill training across all engineering teams to boost the infrastructure knowledge.

• Lead the adoption of incident.io, an incident management tool, in order to establish metrics and increase efficiency

• Integrated two teams into one, which resulted in a unified team culture, properly defined objectives, and KPIs.

• Recruited engineers for the Platform team, drove performance/promotion conversations for early to staff engineers.

• Conducted 1-1s, mentored, and coached teammates and engineers across the organization.

• Scaled AV API throughput by 3X by improving app architecture while driving down costs by ~60%. (Elixir)

• Spearheaded the upgrade of a 5 year old web framework which increased throughput by 2X. (Node)

• Led the initiative to clean up data from databases, elasticsearch, and S3, resulting in over $50,000 annual savings.

• Improved asset management system by baking assets into Docker images to reduce application start time by ~30%.

• Reviewed engineering design documents and provided architectural and operational direction.

• Created an automated load testing system using k6.io which enabled other teams to test for high scale.

• Created personal staging environments for each platform team member to enable siloed workflows and testing.

Product:

• Led and built a DevSecOps tool leveraging AWS technologies to identify resources that are non-compliant with enterprise security standards. (Python, AWS Config, Terraform)

• Architected a schema-based form engine that enabled dynamic generation for mobile UI. (React Native)

• Developed a PDF generation process including a custom-built e-signature process. (PDFtk, Pdfjinja, SQS)

• Architected and engineered GraphQL API for a mobile app for insurance field agents. (Serverless framework)

Process & Process:

• Performed code reviews with engineers to ensure quality and implemented static code scanning tools in Jenkins.

• Initiated an internal DevOps Bootcamp to increase exposure to cloud services and coached on best practices.

• Architected, designed, and developed web applications for conferences and events. (React, ElasticSearch, Kibana)

• Conducted 1-1s and provided mentorship for teammates and interviews for team growth.

• Assisted the leadership team in drafting and revising engagement contracts and pursuing prospective clients.