About Me

Senior Software Engineer with nearly 10 years of experience in backend engineering across both user-facing and enterprise spaces at Block, Google, and Amazon, leading cross-functional teams to deliver on organizational initiatives at scale.

Experience

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 that later 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 to support enterprise-scale businesses with p90 load times under 1 second and 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 well under half and tie monitoring to user impact
  • Led the delivery of new applet functionality in a new engineering domain on schedule while navigating shifting leadership direction and user experience design changes
  • Created a standardized backend acceptance testing framework with integrated tooling and monitoring adopted by ten teams company-wide
  • Mentored an engineer over one quarter through regular 1:1s on career development, technical skills, and system analysis, leading to new guides improving team on-call effectiveness and confidence in their team's systems

Google

Software Engineer II/III

  • Owned and maintained Google Cloud Print across millions of devices and several manufacturers, and developed and delivered on its shutdown plan, coordinating with product, client, and backend teams
  • Implemented a beta candidate tracking tool for Google recruiters to organize and review candidates throughout the hiring pipeline
  • Designed and implemented an automated application license optimization feature to eliminate license waste and unnecessary cost for customers
  • Coached over a dozen new hire teams in onboarding training projects

Amazon

Software Development Engineer

  • Designed, implemented, and launched bulk email sending, and implemented email open and link click tracking, for Simple Email Service, a platform processing over one trillion emails per year

Technical Skills

Languages

Java, Kotlin

Architecture

Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, Microservices

Databases

MySQL, DynamoDB

Infrastructure

Kubernetes, Terraform

DevOps & Cloud

CI/CD, AWS (SQS, Lambda, OpenSearch)

Observability

Datadog, PagerDuty

Testing

JUnit, Mockito, Truth

Education

North Carolina State University

BS Computer Science, 2016