Experience

• ● Built and deployed an Elasticsearch cluster for a jobs board, built ETLs from getting data in from multiple suppliers, did extensive testing on relevance algorithms to improve applications. ● Evaluated options for event streaming, built and launched a kafka cluster, helped to build python clients for consuming and producing, and helped engineers add Kafka across the entire codebase. ● Built the analysis engine for our internal experimentation framework, added peek-proof analysis so that experiment runners can observe results at any moment without affecting experiment validity Show less



• ● Architected, prototyped the API and was tech owner on the frontend for personalized onboarding. ● Led a company-wide hackathon that led to multiple new user-facing features being launched. ● Mentored four new engineers onto the team in two months, building out company-wide documentation and best practices around onboarding



• ● Built out in two weeks a React/Redux/GraphQL quiz feature to let teachers assess students learning ● Led the quiz feature to beta, seeing over 1000 teachers use the feature in the first week. ● Iterated on many discovery features for the front-page search of TpT, analyzed data to make recommendations on how to boost conversion.



• ● Led a full-scale rebuild, improving 95th percentile backend response from 2300ms to 50ms. ● Architected and built a feed system with a React admin, in order to let marketing choose what content to highlight to customers, and evaluate customer engagement with selected content. ● Designed and led team in building fully-tested APIs for the iOS and Android apps to consume ● Instituted product and project management workflow, to coordinate prioritization and launches ● Hired and mentored two junior developers, as well as building a supportive team culture. Show less