Experience

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  Gamestop

  • Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

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  GameStop

  • United States
  • Retail
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Lead Software Engineer

    • Jan 2022 - Present

    Leading a team of 6 engineers to design and implement automation projects for inventory management, order management, product information, and customer support, utilizing Kanban and biweekly grooming sessions to ensure alignment with business priorities, increasing product delivery efficiency by 50% through enhanced team velocityPioneered the design and implementation of a trade-in service for trading cards, integrating with existing systems and achieving full implementation within a monthTook ownership of legacy systems and directed their upgrade to modern infrastructures using AWS, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture, enhancing the system's capacity to handle millions of actions per second, boosting system throughput by 100x and supporting significant business expansionEnhanced operational efficiency by implementing monitoring and alarming using Prometheus and Grafana and establishing an OpsGenie pager rotation for incident response, cutting operational support response time from 1 hour to 5 minutesIntroduced Kaizen techniques to drive continuous improvement and lean processes, minimizing integration friction, streamlining operations, and improving team scalability and efficiencyMentored developers on software engineering principles through design reviews and advocated for maintainable and readable code through comprehensive code reviews, reducing revisions by 50%

  • Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

    • Sep 2021 - Jan 2022

    Led a team of engineers on designing and developing the next generation of enterprise data architecture for managing product prices throughout the GameStop eCommerce and store experiences under an aggressive 6-month timelineReduced time required to change product prices from 24 hours to ~10min and reduced the data propagation time within the GameStop systems from 24 hours to real-timeWorked with product, business, and 3rd party stakeholders to solidify requirements and make sure we solved the right problemsCoordinated delivery of projects across multiple teams to ensure seamless integrations using agile practices to provide incremental delivery and quick valueContinually communicated timeline status, deliveries, and setbacks to stakeholdersMentored developers on designing systems for scalability, simplicity, and efficiencyMaintained, improved, and documented internal legacy systems that leveraged SnapLogic, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, and AWSImplemented organization-wide best practices surrounding coding, documenting, interviewing, and operational processes

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  Amazon

  • Software Development Engineer II

    • Jul 2020 - Sep 2021

    Designed back-end services that leveraged multiple AWS services to allow product managers to design, edit, and create Live Events on Prime Video through a self-service React based website without developer support, allowing the business to scale from 5,000 events created per year to 50,000+ events created per yearReduced time taken to onboard event templates from 3 months to 2 weeks for products managers and removed 90% of developer involvement in the process

  • Software Development Engineer I

    • Jun 2018 - Jul 2020

    Collaborated directly with product managers to onboard new business contracts into our servicesDesigned new tools and services used by product managers to safely manipulate live event data that is visible to customers after creation through an internal React based website and data reconciliation pipelinesScaled the Live Events Business from 20 events created per year by hand to 5,000 events per year through automated pipelinesReduced time taken to publish a single event from 72 hours to 10 minutes and allowed creation of hundreds of events in parallel

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  University of Nevada-Las Vegas

  • Las Vegas, Nevada Area

  • BioInformatics Research Assistant

    • Apr 2016 - May 2018
    • Las Vegas, Nevada Area

    Designed and implemented a process to determine if a person has a specific gene based on their sequenced DNA using Python, Burrows-Wheeler Aligner, and SamtoolsCreated a program to determine the counts of somatic mutations within multiple patients to be used in other research projects, primarily written Python and RBuilt and managed multiple Unix servers used by members of the bioinformatics lab

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  Amazon

  • Greater Seattle Area

  • Software Development Engineer Intern

    • May 2017 - Aug 2017
    • Greater Seattle Area

    Designed and developed a system to leverage facial recognition services provided by AWS RekognitionImplemented multiple services in Java utilizing AWS DynamoDB, AWS S3, Spring MVC, Guice, and Mockito