Experience

Strive

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jan 2021 - Present



NoRedInk

• United States
• E-learning
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Engineer

  • Jul 2015 - Jul 2020

  NoRedInk is an ed-tech company whose mission is to unlock every writer's potential. Contributed to all parts of the stack, ranging from frontend to backend to database performance to AWS infrastructure, while picking up new technology on the go, such as Elm, Haskell, Nix, or Terraform. Having been one to be proactive about infrastructure issues, I was part of the new SRE team during the last 2 years: * Co-led the definition of the team's role within the organization, identifying seven keys areas of site reliability * Co-authored internal guideline for teams to build reliable and secure services * Defined interview scorecard for hiring new SREs * Contributed to the planning and execution of enabling encryption at rest on the site's multi-terabyte database * Migrated two internal services to Kubernetes, laying the groundwork for the rest of the infrastructure Introduced and/or deployed internal tools and practices that support asynchronous team communication out of my own volition. * Git-based wiki system * Internal forum (Discourse) * Inclusive process for retrospectives * Document-driven meetings * Issue template for internal bug reporting Volunteered as a member of an internal IT group that handled technical onboarding and offboarding. Reason for leaving: laid off due to the pandemic. Show less



Freelance

• Tokyo, Japan

• Full-Stack & Mobile Software Engineer

  • Feb 2009 - Jun 2015

  Taken on non-trivial app requirements and led each of them to its completion: - Developed backend/frontend for OLAP SaaS that lets market analysts cross-tabulate & segment 60M data points from annual nation-wide consumer surveys. - Developed market research community platform with natural language & social graph analytics. - Android app for viewing hiking trails with audio guides. - Developed Android conference companion app with indoor location tracking based on Bluetooth beacon technology. - Architected system for replicating an Oracle database to MySQL databases with schema alterations on the fly. Show less



Community Engine Inc.

• • Feb 2007 - Apr 2010

  Handled occasional translation work from Japanese to English and vice versa, such as:- Business e-mails- Company website- Company brochures- Product portfolio- Technical documents

• • Mar 2006 - Apr 2010

  Implemented features for game clients and web sites:- Implemented a feature request board for a community website of an online game- Lead engineer for a user-generated content service backend- 3D virtual world project: bits of 3D client programming, client launcher with automatic updates

• • Jun 2009 - Aug 2009

  Built test automation solutions for the company's networking library for real-time games:- automated existing testing process- implemented tooling for automated testing on PlayStation Portable and iPhone

• • Aug 2008 - Mar 2009

  Helped a non-technical staff understand basic programming concepts, acquire computing literacy and start writing her own code.

• • May 2006 - Dec 2008

  Served as project manager for an online environment simulation game, which I'd been an avid fan of before joining the company. - Wrote functional specifications- Undertook game server operations- Supervised customer support communications- Contributed features to the community website

• • Apr 2007 - Apr 2008

  Managed Japanese-to-English translation of the documentation of the company's flagship networking library. - Sourced an experienced translator in the target domain- Implemented translation workflow and created automation tools to handle different document formats- Proofread the translation