• Managed a team of engineers in a cross-functional team, facilitating growth by assigning responsibilities proportional to experience and providing assistance as needed.

• Implemented agile methodologies to streamline development process, improve internal communication, and empower engineers to make informed decisions on their projects. Incorporated feedback to drive continuous process improvement.

• Collaborated with senior management, product, design, and engineering to ensure development efforts aligned with business objectives. Provided regular status updates on ongoing projects.

• Raised the bar for engineering excellence by introducing gradual type-checking, conducting thorough code reviews, and evaluating architecture proposals. Leveraged GraphQL Apollo Federation and Kafka to build scalable systems.

• Oversaw and guided the development of the billing system, which utilized a graph data structure to keep an accurate log of charges, payments, credits, refunds, and balance transfers.

• Contributed to the development of various microservices, leveraging extensive experience to support Odeko's critical and complicated product areas.

• Designed a self-serve refunds feature, gathering requirements, and considering edge cases to prevent over-refunding scenarios and to enhance operational efficiency of customer support.

• Overhauled the weekly bank deposit workflow to accommodate daily deposits, requiring meticulous attention to detail and layers of automated testing to ensure transactions were paid out exactly once.

• Managed a team of two interns. Ensured successful execution by defining project scope, providing guidance, and facilitating communication with stakeholders.

• Leveraged deep expertise in Ruby on Rails to build a diverse array of projects within a large-scale, high-traffic Rails application, earning recognition as a go-to resource for colleagues at all levels who sought technical guidance.

• Demonstrated a track record of delivering high-quality solutions and earned trust to work on high-impact initiatives which contributed significantly to the company's growth and success. Ensured high-uptime, and addressed common edge-cases before they happened.

• Integrated with key partners such as Wayfair and Facebook Marketplace, developing robust processing systems that became integral to Handy's business strategy.

• Championed developer experience by leading projects aimed at enhancing internal tooling and processes. Implemented a solution to improve common defects caused by feature flag system. Upgraded to major version of Rails, finishing a month early and with minimal disruption to ongoing development efforts.

I worked on various tasks to improve the developers', admins', and users' experience through bettering performance through tasks such as:

• writing a asset build tool for improving cacheability and performance

• optimizing the build process, preventing unmodified files from recompilation

• implementing various user-facing features

The primary technologies we used were CoffeeScript, Node.js and MongoDB.