San Francisco Bay Area
Software engineer with a focus on backend development, infrastructure, and software systems. Not very good at words but I'm working on it.
2020 - Led the migration of Lyft Business’s billing and transactional data reporting pipelines to the next generation payments platform as part of a company-wide initiative. - Took over the leadership role of a multi-quarter project to handle credit card payment failures, re-establishing milestones and working with stakeholders to correct past errors in execution. - Hosted team learning sessions to reduce bus factor after layoffs reduced our team’s size by 50%. 2019 - Led our team’s CCPA/GDPR compliance project, developing and testing data removal request functionality, in addition to simplifying user data storage by consolidating old data models. - Led a tech debt cleanup effort within the team to improve the async worker infrastructure and real-time transactional data pipelines. - Explored and led outreach & education sessions to migrate Lyft Business teams to Kubernetes. 2018 - Led a team effort to support the company wide effort to deprecate the Lyft PHP monolith, moving payments logic to new services and financial data from MongoDB to DynamoDB. - Led IPO readiness projects, including building a simpler and more robust monthly billing and financial system, still in use, that replaced a flaky and complex process. - Ensured service ownership remained scalable as the team grew 4x by proactively creating microservices and advocating for service-oriented architecture best practices. 2017 - Improved system reliability by migrating services to Python 3, adopting mypy and pre-commit, and increasing observability through additional metrics, dashboards, and alarms. - Simplified user membership data models, migrating between database technologies to enable data encryption at rest with zero downtime. - Enabled reliable compliance data egress via SFTP by setting up a SFTP server cluster allowing read/write access to an internal S3 bucket (later replaced by AWS Transfer).
Created Lyft Events, a self-serve portal for individuals or businesses to create prepaid ride credit codes that are billed only for actual usage.
Created features to encourage users to contribute content to Google Maps.
Developed a distributed, real-time matchmaking system for League of Legends in collaboration with a small team of engineers.