Architecting with Google Cloud Platform Specialization

Google Cloud Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer

Bachelor’s Degree

Master of Science - MS

• Identified AWS optimizations in GPU clusters that saved the business $240k+ annually.
• Managed business critical multidisciplinary efforts across multiple engineering teams and the data team.
• Worked directly with the product org to gather requirements and estimate effort of diverse and sometimes unclear tasks.
• Oversaw the integration of an acquired property (Sansa) into the existing website with zero downtime.
• Mentored team members through consistent feedback and development plans, supporting career growth and progression.
• Created dashboards to understand financial projections and user behavior that influenced company direction and strategy.
• Created a culture of design and system documentation so that other engineers were able to maintain and extend existing infrastructure.

Software Engineering Manager

• Worked on a DevOps team to automate processes and operated in a mindset of streamlining repetitive tasks.
• Used Python Flask to create web front ends for users to utilize self-service for private company processes.
• Saved 5 people on my team more than 6 hours every weekend where they would otherwise have to sit on call and wait to give information that can now be accessed by the self-service tool
• Created and deployed confidential applications to the cloud to make tools widely accessible company wide.
• Collaborated with customers of applications to fix bugs and improve overall user experience.

Software Engineer Intern

•	Planned and hosted several on campus events with a total attendance of 400+ students to promote the Google Cloud Platform.
•	Developed websites utilizing App Engine and Google Cloud Functions on Google Cloud to demonstrate the uses to students
•	Collaborated with employees at Google to brainstorm ideas to get students excited about the Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Student Innovator for Vaco at Google

• Collaborated cross-organizationally with 11 product areas to gather requirements, iterate on feedback, and manage migrations.
• Increased satisfaction of the internal React.js web app I worked on by 33% after organizing a concerted effort to understand our users and implement feedback.
• Created top level OKR dashboards in HTML, CSS, and Typescript for critical business efforts across the whole Search product area.
• Lead an initiative to improve user experience across our tooling by measuring UX debt via CSAT and took action to respond to existing problems while taking steps to prevent future issues from arising.
• Presented findings on how to improve user experience org wide positively affecting how UX was approached internally.
•  Redesigned the on-call rotation to reduce stress and increase effectiveness by clarifying ownership and responsibilities.
• Made a scalable and extensible plugin system in Go that allowed us to perform less maintenance, have easier access management, and

Software Engineer

• Led engineering for a product area that generated $60M+ in revenue, ensuring stability and scalability while collaborating with product and leadership to define strategy and direction within constraints.
• Improved developer velocity by reducing monorepo build times by >75%, streamlining code quality checks, and optimizing the merging process for faster and more efficient development cycles.
• Established a structured OKR framework, onboarded product managers, and led a cross-functional team through Agile methodologies, ultimately resulting in improved alignment, 2x faster delivery, and organization-wide adoption of these practices.
• Measured team output using story points ultimately finding that our team practices were 4x more effective than larger teams.
• Launched multiple successful artist exhibitions that incorporated live auctions and bridged physical products and the blockchain.

Senior Software Engineering Manager

•	Collaborated with a software engineering professor to coordinate the execution of a new application using the agile method
•	Learned Android app development to a proficient level using online tutorials and documentation provided by Google
•	Programmed a variety of applications for Android using Java and XML in order to bring the knowledge gained to an application

Research Assistant

•	Created backend documentation to allow efficient workflow in the creation of backend databases
•	Interviewed 20 potential customers to discover their needs and wants for the completed product and documented it inside Excel
•	Reported progress and expressed design ideas during weekly meetings with the development team that were later slated to be incorporated into the final product

Software Engineer Internship

• Reduced artist application intake time by 30% by building a Next.js, AWS Lambda, and SendGrid solution that automated Asana ticket creation, Ethereum transaction initiation, and artist email notifications.
• Implemented on-call and bug triaging procedures across the engineering org using Datadog, Pagerduty, and Slack automations.
• Mentored the team on how to write effective, scalable, and robust design documents.
• Implemented realtime pipelines for secondary market functionality using AWS Lambda, ECS, SQS all within AWS CDK to make it reproducible and configurable across all environments.
• Collaborated with third-party API vendor Reservoir to create more scalable versions of their trading API offering.
• Coordinated complex engineering efforts cross-organizationally that required multi-quarter planning such as OFAC compliance.
• Designed and implemented a CMS system with Strapi, AWS CDK, AWS RDS, and AWS ECS that was all integrated into Hasura so it could be queried via GraphQL.
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Core Software Engineer/Team Lead

• Developed the backend of a mobile social media food finding app using Node.js and MongoDB to get the application to release and reach 1000+ downloads. 
• Managed the engineering team in implementing efforts across the website, mobile app, and backend to successfully release new features such as push notifications.
• Migrated the application to more scalable infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform allowing the application to scale to increased user counts.
• Forwarded login of the app to the server to control user data in a central location, with the goal of running analytics in the future. 
• Deployed the app to AWS (Amazon Web Services) EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute) using NGINX as a reverse proxy, and implemented a SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certification, using Let’s Encrypt for a domain pointing to a static IP on Route 53.
• Accessed the Google Places API to extract restaurant information based on location, distance, maximum price, minimum rating, and whether the location was open or

Engineering Lead

• Developed a serverless function in Node.js to hit APIs of Bitcoin exchanges multiple times a second to return price statistics for arbitrage purposes.
• Adapted bootstrap templates to the Turbo 360 platform by adding a backend and customizing it for different businesses.
• Communicated with users of the platform to gather feature requests and requirements.
• Created documentation and educational material for external customers to come up to speed on the platform.

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