Experience
Amazon Web Services
Senior Software Development Engineer (October 2021 - Present, Promotion), Software Development Engineer (January 2019 - September 2021)
Jan 2019 – Present
- Authored original proposal, technical design, and API spec for Lightsail Containers↗, a new product within Amazon Lightsail that simplifies deployment of containerized applications
- Led a team of eight engineers in developing Lightsail Containers by driving sprint planning and retro meetings, distributing tasks to team members, writing critical-path code, and by providing technical guidance to less experienced engineers
- Participated in on-call roatation, responding to emergent issues in a timely manner, maintaining operational service health
- Interviewed job candidates, mentored new hires and interns, and advised and signed-off on technical designs of junior team members
- Delivered numerous other features across both backend and frontend, including an internal feature access control implementation, automatic backups for Lightsail Instances↗, and other↗ features↗
Meural
Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead (July 2018 – December 2018, Promotion), Software Engineer (May 2016 – June 2018)
May 2016 – December 2018
Acquired by Netgear in September 2018, Meural↗ is an art-tech company that produces a connected digital art frame and a platform for art discovery
- End-to-end owner of all web-based software including frontend, backend, and devops with two direct reports
- Implemented server side rendering (Article↗), code splitting, and service worker to achieve lightning-fast flagship web app↗
- Led the development numerous internal Django/React apps to support hardware production and content management
- Developed CI/CD pipeline with Docker, CircleCI, and AWS ECS to support multiple, zero downtime deployments per day
- Built art subscription and payment platform with Stripe API which processed over 1.5MM in payments since release
- Leveraged RabbitMQ to support thousands of connected IoT devies with near zero latency UX
Time Inc.
Associate Manager, Digital Operations
May 2013 – July 2014
Skills
- Languages: Go, Java, JavaScript (ES6, Webpack, Babel), Python, Ruby, Shell Scripting, HTML5, CSS3
- Frameworks: Django, Flask, Rails, React, Next.js, Angular, Web Components, jQuery
- Databases: DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, mySQL, MongoDB, GCP Datastore
- DevOps: Docker, CI/CD, CircleCI, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes
- Open Source: Author of styled-react-modal↗, which receives over 120k downloads per month on NPM
Education
App Academy
Web Development | May 2016
Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Science
M.A. Philosophy | October 2015
New York University, College of Arts and Science
B.A. Philosophy | May 2012