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Backend-leaning engineer who builds products at scale: ad platforms, e-commerce systems, and consumer-facing tools used by millions. Five years shipping at Twitter, Spotify, and high-growth startups. Deep experience in distributed systems, experimentation, and turning product ideas into measurable outcomes.
Experience
Software Engineer · Smartsheet
Jan 2025–Present- Built a new-user onboarding flow (React, TypeScript, Rails backend) through multiple design iterations based on user feedback and A/B results, increasing new-user adoption by 30%.
- Designed and shipped a net-new content discovery microservice used across internal teams and external customers, averaging 6,000–7,000 daily impressions with peaks exceeding 15,000 uses in a single day. Wrote the design doc, coordinated with product and design, and owned end-to-end delivery.
- Automated on-call runbook scripts using Claude, cutting manual operational work across the team.
Software Engineer · Olo
Apr 2024–Jan 2025- Owned Olo's live Waitlist product from design doc through launch for a restaurant e-commerce platform serving 1,000+ locations. Drove a 30% increase in consumer waitlist reservations.
- Architected the infrastructure layer: Kubernetes HPA, Kafka event streaming, and Datadog monitoring on AWS across multi-region deployments handling hundreds of thousands of users.
- Integrated Stripe payment APIs for reservation billing flows, working cross-functionally with the payments team to ensure reliable transaction processing across 1,000+ locations.
- Ran LaunchDarkly feature flag experiments to test waitlist UX variants, analyzing results to drive product decisions and iterate on the consumer experience.
- Led PostgreSQL query optimization and Redis caching improvements, collaborating cross-functionally with product, design, and backend teams.
Software Engineer · Spotify
Apr 2023–Mar 2024- Built Ads API endpoints (Java, TypeScript) for Spotify's self-serve Ad Studio, enabling advertisers to track conversions through pixel-based measurement on partner websites.
- Designed a real-time event pipeline (Kafka) processing thousands of ad impressions for analytics and conversion reporting.
- Established automated testing standards (JUnit + custom frameworks), hitting 100% coverage on critical ad-serving endpoints.
- Led internship recruiting and ran technical workshops, engaging 300+ students.
Software Engineer · Twitter
Feb 2021–Jan 2023- Built an automated diagnostic tool that caught a recurring system failure pattern, saving $2M/year and eliminating manual engineering intervention entirely.
- Owned API endpoints (Python, Scala) integrated with GCP BigQuery, serving product metrics data for Twitter's advertising platform at scale.
- Cut on-call incidents by 60% through runbook documentation, PagerDuty alerting, and automated CI/CD pipelines.
Software Engineering Instructor · Flatiron School
Jul 2020–Feb 2021- Mentored 25+ engineers-in-training through full-stack project delivery (Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, React), improving cohort completion rates.
Education
Johns Hopkins University
M.S. in Computer Science (AI Concentration) · Starting 2026
University of Maryland Global Campus
B.S. Computer Science, With Honors
Flatiron School
Software Engineering Bootcamp
Skills
LanguagesPython, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby, Scala, SQL
FrontendReact, HTML/CSS
Backend & InfrastructureNode.js, Express, Ruby on Rails, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker
APIs & MessagingGraphQL, gRPC, REST, Kafka, Event-Driven Architecture
Data & ExperimentationBigQuery, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, LaunchDarkly, A/B Testing
ObservabilityDatadog, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, PagerDuty
CI/CD & TestingJest, JUnit, Mocha, GitHub Actions, CircleCI
GenAI ToolingClaude, GitHub Copilot
PracticesObject-Oriented Design, Data Modeling, Concurrency, Design Patterns, Distributed Systems