Senior Backend Engineer with extensive experience in building scalable and high-performance systems. Contributed to backend solutions at leading companies, including Whatnot, Walmart, and Shutterfly.
Experience
2022 — Now
2022 — Now
• Engineered scalable backend systems using Redis, Kubernetes, and Python microservices, ensuring platform reliability during high-demand events like the 2024 Super Bowl with 3x traffic surges.
• Implemented distributed traffic management leveraging Redis and Python, mitigating service overload, reducing request delays by 30% during unexpected peak loads.
• Optimized real-time chat infrastructure by introducing rate-limiting with Redis and Elixir, enhancing readability in live streams and boosting user engagement by 20%.
• Revamped notification delivery platform using RabbitMQ, Python, and asynchronous processing, improving alert delivery speed by 40% for millions of users.
• Designed and deployed Whatamix feed platform utilizing DAGs and modular architecture, written in Python, enhancing content personalization and boosting discoverability by 25%.
• Conducted rigorous load testing and addressed system bottlenecks with Python, Kubernetes, and performance analytics, enabling the platform to scale for 5x traffic.
• Optimized database and GraphQL query performance through async I/O and resolver enhancements, reducing latency by 40% in critical workflows.
• Collaborated across teams to adopt Python-based solutions for distributed systems, fostering a cooperative environment and enhancing cross-team workflows for scalability.
2018 — 2022
2018 — 2022
• Contributed to scalable backend systems for e-commerce logistics and inventory, leveraging Python, Kubernetes, and GCP, enhancing operational efficiency and customer satisfaction across millions of users.
• Optimized last-mile delivery operations by developing a FastAPI-based machine learning model with Docker and Uvicorn, reducing delivery delays and saving $4–5M annually.
• Enhanced inventory reservations API scalability using actor pattern, Kubernetes, and CosmosDB, increasing throughput by 150% during peak traffic, processing 5,000 orders per second.
• Rebuilt Walmart’s autocomplete backend by implementing prefix hash trees and Memcached in Kubernetes, achieving O(1) query time and reducing response latency by 20%.
• Improved partner integrations by building Spark-based pipelines in GCP, enabling secure API feeds via signed URLs, reducing data processing time by 75%.
• Scaled real-time data pipelines for A/B testing with Kafka, Spark, and M3DB, handling 250,000 messages/second, improving experiment metric processing to under three minutes.
• Collaborated effectively with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues, ensure operational excellence, and maintain high-quality deliverables under tight deadlines in high-pressure environments.
2016 — 2018
2016 — 2018
• Completed Flask, Python based REST API development and document generation wrapper classes for the existing JRPC system for module-resource identification.
• Leveraged React, Redux, Material UI, and Figma to create dynamic UI features, enabling personalized product designs, increasing user satisfaction by 15%.
• Drove the development of the Lifetouch mobile app using React Native, Node.js, MongoDB, and GraphQL, with exploration of potential AI-powered recommendation features.
• Created AWS Resource Management Dashboards to monitor and manage AWS resources effectively by predicting future costs and redundant resources decreasing the average metric usage by 25% for DB and SQS resources.
2012 — 2015
2012 — 2015
• Majorly maintained and improved Learning A-Z product suite, focusing on building user interfaces using AngularJS and later adopting React.
• Migrated parts of a legacy web application to a more modern React codebase, improving performance and SEO.
• Implemented dynamic website navigation, improved performance, and fixed various bugs to enhance accessibility and overall user experience.
• Followed an agile SDLC process with daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Conducted unit testing using tools like Jest to ensure code quality before deployment.
Education
University of South Alabama
Bachelor of Science - BS
2007 — 2012