Experience

Ranker

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Chief Architect

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  • Responsible for all technology across the engineering organization including architectural reviews and management of third party services.• Drove efforts to increase the performance and reliability of our core product Ranker.com, powered by React with Next.js and Akamai CDN.• Worked with our Ad Tech team to develop advanced ad serving and tracking solutions.• Worked with our Backend team to reduce lag spikes in our Java Spring app and increase the reliability of our services.• Continued to push forward and develop our Node.js based microservices architecture, reducing complexity and allowing for rapid iteration across critical projects.• Comprehensively reviewed performance and architecture across our stack and implemented innovative solutions to increase security, stability, reliability, and performance.• Architected and implemented CI/CD and infrastructure as code standards across the engineering organization using Kubernetes, Helm, Pulumi, GitHub Actions and Datadog.• Collaborated closely with our data science team in developing models and machine learning systems in production. Show less

• Principal Software Engineer

  • Dec 2020 - Jun 2021

  • Conceived, Architected and managed the implementation of a level 2 MLOps platform enabling automated training, deployment, and scaling of tens of production recommender models.• Replaced expensive and unreliable third party services with in-house microservices, reducing complexity and cost by 50% while increasing reliability and stability.• Architected and managed implementation of edge code system using Cloudflare Workers increasing reliability to 99.999%, reducing cost by 95% and reducing latency by 50%.• Drove technical innovation through simple and effective large scale initiatives, working closely with leadership and other stakeholders. Show less

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2012 - Dec 2020

  • Pushed forward a data-driven philosophy enabling Ranker's rapid scaling and growth into one of the most visited websites on the internet.• Implemented advanced integrations with Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics allowing users across the organization to rapidly react to changes in our traffic.• Conceived and created a big data metric management system responsible for storing thousands of metrics and billions of rows of data, all available in realtime to users across the organization.• Created platform to generate and automatically update Google Sheets based on arbitrary queries or other business logic, managing hundreds of distinct definitions and saving thousands of person hours.• Created large-scale SEO management system increasing targeted and overall search engine traffic.• Created automated Facebook Post and Ads management systems allowing 100x scaling of existing operations.• Created state-of-the-art machine learning systems powering recirculation, correlations, and recommendation engines across many generations of technology from Apache Mahout to hybrid recommenders and modern deep learning systems. Show less