Experience

Paxos

• United States
• Financial Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • May 2022 - Present

  - My Team is responsible for a new mission-critical microservice which handles all fiat money movements with various banking partners. - This is the first service fully decoupled from orgs monolith. - Pushed my team to write more testable/decoupled code (e.g., using Go's inferred interfaces) - Enabled true unit tests. - Pushed my team towards good microservice practices (separate DB instance for our service, hard service/domain boundaries, and assuming that if it can go wrong, it will go wrong, etc.) - Mentored other members of the team who were unfamiliar with some typical microservice patterns. - Led and worked on critical design tasks including: idempotency of payment processing, monitoring via Prometheus/Alert Manager, and how to gracefully handle failures. - Consistently pushed for automated error handling, rather than manual one-offs - Presented multiple times to the company-wide Golang group about effective code patterns my team and I established in our codebase to help improve Paxos as a whole. - Worked with our internal clients (other engineering teams) to establish an API that would be easy for them to use. - Worked on POC for exploring new Paxos-wide workflow orchestration platform (Temporal). Technologies: - Golang - Postgres - Prometheus/Alert Manager - ArgoCD - Kubernetes - Sentry Show less



Adobe

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer 4

  • Aug 2021 - May 2022

• Software Engineer

  • Nov 2019 - Aug 2021

  I work on the Platform Stream Processing team. We are responsible for building and maintaining mission critical systems that enable the next generation of Adobe Analytics services. While at Adobe I've:- Improved the performance of streaming solution by 3x by refining metrics collection and removing unnecessary network hops.- Helped to design and implement splitting a service into I/O and CPU intensive operations for more efficient use of resources, and increasing the visibility, reliability, and throughput of our processing. - Led the design and implementation of new services to automate backfilling customer data into Adobe's newest suite of services. This was previously a painful manual task requiring Jira tickets and manual validation.- Developed a Golang cli for the automation of previously manual tasks in order to learn more about Go.- I try to push the envelope in what technologies we use, and how we can more effectively serve our customers.Technologies:- Kafka- Scala- Java- Docker- Kubernetes- Prometheus- Azure Storage Queues- MySQL Show less



Pluralsight

• United States
• E-Learning Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer, Streaming Data Platform

  • Jun 2019 - Nov 2019

  I work on developing a unified streaming data platform. We have services that use RESTful APIs to handle ingestion of data and materializing the streams. I have been working on breaking out a metadata microservice to improve the scalability and reliability of the platform. This work includes design, implementation, and deployment to AWS via Terraform. We’ve also moved towards supporting Spark as a way to enhance our users' experience. Kafka is our data store to allow high throughput producers and consumers, fault tolerance, and availability. I have also automated routine maintenance tasks to improve team velocity, and to free us up for more interesting engineering problems. Technologies: - Kafka - Scala - Akka - AWS - Docker - Spark - Python Show less



Lingotek

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • May 2017 - May 2019

  • Diagnosed and fixed scalability issues with a key microservice new to the team • Took part in designing and implementing a solution to reduce operational database size to greatly increase the speed of the platform • Took a partially completed system rewrite across the finish line • Led several technical trainings on effective use of design patterns • Worked closely with stakeholders to iterate on solutions that are valuable to the company • Worked actively to improve code quality and performance • Worked with a wide range of technologies including Postgres, Docker, Cassandra, Solr, and Kafka Show less



Brigham Young University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2018 - Nov 2018

  I facilitated the development of an auto machine learning system while managing a couple of undergraduate programmers. I facilitated the development of an auto machine learning system while managing a couple of undergraduate programmers.



BYU Dean's Office of Undergraduate Education

• Provo, UT

• Computer Programmer

  • Aug 2016 - May 2017

  • Maintained 5 websites for BYU (both frontend and backend) • Met with clients and determine their wants • Refactored code to improve code quality • Maintained 5 websites for BYU (both frontend and backend) • Met with clients and determine their wants • Refactored code to improve code quality



The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Orem, UT

• Software Development Intern

  • Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

  • Developed back-end web services for familysearch.com in Java • Created alerts to improve response time in case a service went down through Splunk • Improved unit and acceptance testing of services • Worked on a team of 3 software engineers • Improved the quality of code on 5 web services • Developed back-end web services for familysearch.com in Java • Created alerts to improve response time in case a service went down through Splunk • Improved unit and acceptance testing of services • Worked on a team of 3 software engineers • Improved the quality of code on 5 web services



BYU First-Year Mentoring

• Provo, UT

• Peer Mentor

  • Mar 2015 - Apr 2016

  • Led weekly trainings of 4 mentors • Worked one-on-one with 70 first-year students to help them be successful • Required strong active listening skills, self-motivation, communication skills, and good time management • Led weekly trainings of 4 mentors • Worked one-on-one with 70 first-year students to help them be successful • Required strong active listening skills, self-motivation, communication skills, and good time management



SAS

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Student

  • Sep 2012 - Nov 2012

  • Updated servers. • Tested software. • Installed software. • Facilitated the conversion of their Wiki page to a new format. • Updated servers. • Tested software. • Installed software. • Facilitated the conversion of their Wiki page to a new format.