Block
Senior Software Engineer
- Selected by engineering leadership to lead a cross-org team of four engineers in six weeks to deliver an end-to-end testing framework, which became the platform for all of web engineering, covering hundreds of engineers
- Designed and led a three-person team to deliver a revamped search experience supporting enterprise-scale businesses, using OpenSearch, asynchronous indexing of hundreds of millions of records, and open source tooling to achieve p90 load times under 1 second with new sorting, filtering, and text search functionality
- Proposed, designed, and implemented an SLO-based service monitoring and alerting framework to reduce false positive rates from up to 90% to under 50% and tie monitoring to user impact
- Led the delivery of new Cash App functionality on schedule while navigating shifting leadership direction and user experience design changes, ensuring time for early feedback before public delivery
- Built a standardized backend acceptance testing framework with integrated tooling and monitoring adopted by ten teams company-wide to improve service reliability
- Mentored an engineer over one quarter through regular 1:1s on career development, technical skills, and system analysis, leading to new guides improving team effectiveness and system confidence