Education

Work History

• Responsible for CRM capabilities’ backend services.

• Integrated Adidas's Global Event Tools with Runtastic's CRM backend services.

• Shifted the source of truth of the notification settings service to local databases instead of pulling from a vendor's service, improving response time by 68% without data loss or pause in operations.

• Monitoring services performance and responding to alerts through New Relic, Kibana and Prometheus.

• Shared responsibility for bank branch IT infrastructure from teller software to signage hardware.

• Designed and upgraded new bank teller software and integrated new development with core banking services.

• Coordinated with external software vendors and internal teams to implement integration points for new software to current systems.

• Managed and installed development tools and applications on test and development servers.

• Became a member of the bank’s cloud committee. Helped write and apply the bank’s own rulebook to benchmark cloud-based solutions within the bank.

• Responsible for developing and maintaining high-availability card payment solutions for large financial institutions around the world.

• Working effectively with diverse, interdisciplinary teams to create solutions that significantly improved overall functionality and performance.

• Serving as a mentor to less experienced developers and advising them.

• Writing technical analysis documents.

• Designing and developed unit test scripts.

• Participating with clients in meetings resulting in fixing defects and developing or integrating new features.

• Using technologies such as PL/SQL, Java, RSpec and Oracle AWR to develop, test and assess new applications.

• Discovered and solved a voltage defect in a product prototype design by making changes to the voltage regulation module.

• Optimized low-level code meant for limited embedded hardware and boosted responsiveness by 20%.

• Conceived a basic Android kiosk app for an Intel-based tablet and successfully convinced a potential client to purchase the tablets as menu tablets for their establishment.

Part-Time Work

• Co-designed, developed and implemented a wholly new asset tracking and environmental reporting system from scratch.

• Wrote scripts to relay messages in real time from IoT devices over MQTT to several components of the tracking system.

• Implemented a RESTful API using Django.

• Integrated AWS components as the infrastructure basis of the new system.

• Managed Linux EC2-based development servers and ECS-based development environments as well as managed software deployment, automation, updates and security.

• Deployed infrastructure-as-code on AWS and provisioned AWS components using Terraform.