• Led a multi-year performance initiative across core user flows, improving caching and batching

frameworks to eliminate N+1 patterns and reduce systemic latency

• Delivered measurable performance wins, including a 50% latency reduction on the podcasts RSS

endpoint and a 35% reduction in checkout page render time

• Overhauled performance monitoring and alerting to detect regressions early and shorten feedback

loops for product and platform teams

• Improved Redis reliability and scalability by migrating critical single-node instances to clustered

architectures, including a zero-incident sessions cluster migration using dual-write strategies

• Rebuilt the pagination framework to improve correctness and consistency across platforms, reducing

mobile pagination errors by 99.9% and overall error rates by 80%

• Acted as a cross-team design partner, regularly participating in architecture and design reviews

across engineering

• Managed a roadmap of security-related platform work across multiple engineering squads

• Lead technical strategy of operations engineering teams, including inventory and manufacturing

• Architected new product offerings with product managers and leadership teams

• Revamped inventory system to reduce complexity and embrace industry best practices

• Developed an Ember library to simplify and universalize authorization across our applications

• Improved production web performance and reduced average response times by 30%

• Led development and QA efforts upgrading a Rails 3 application to Rails 4

• Architected large software projects including recipe cost forecasting and weekly review

• Stood up an internal OAuth service provider and assisted product teams in migrating to it

• Contributed to open source projects such as Rails and Doorkeeper

• Mentored junior engineers on the best practices of Rails, Postgres, and general web development

I worked with clients to develop technical solutions for their business needs. My main focus was on iOS development, building enterprise iPad and iPhone applications addressing those needs. I also built and deployed customer-facing eCommerce web applications.

Revamped an antiquated virtual reality testing platform for human-computer interaction research. Converted an elderly C++ software dinosaur to a lightweight python application.