I have over 6 years of experience as a software engineer, and have worked at both small startups and large organizations. While I'm a proficient full-stack developer, my expertise is in building scalable backend services (API services, stream processing, and async mechanisms).

I love building things. While hard engineering problems are often intrinsically fun to tackle, I'm most attracted to solving real customer problems with a business justification. I'm looking for a senior individual contributor role where I can take on on collaborative team leadership responsibilites, and gain experience with architecture and project management.

Highlights

• Migrated a monolithic Heroku Ruby on Rails API to multiple Scala services hosted on AWS. Delivered ahead of schedule, projected to save $18k/quarter.
• Presented research and proof-of-concept to convince team to move from Hadoop MR to Spark; reduced nodes by 60% and ran 5-8x faster.
• Automated test automation in ramp-up to large data center migration, saving hundreds of developer hours.
• Presented "Understanding the GIL to Prevent Race Conditions" at RubyConf 2016.
• Awarded patent for novel approach to item normalization in 3rd party catalog data feeds.