Staff Software Engineer
Stripe
January 2019
to November 2024
- Building a data-driven targeting framework for payments ui that trades off friction for saving payment details against the likelihood that the user would return resulting in an LTV increase of >$30M per year.
- Spearheading the integration of GraphQL to improve Stripe's frontend development, convincing skeptical stakeholders through effective communication.
- Establishing funding for a Payment UI performance working group by demonstrating small fixes resulting in over $1M in margin.
- Driving website and API performance enhancements by persuading stakeholders to allocate funding, resulting in a 50% improvement in Stripe Dashboard efficiency and improving search performance by >70%.
Software Engineer
Twitch
June 2014
to December 2018
- Writing web services in golang, and ruby that powered viewer facing web pages
- Architecting Video Streaming System for use in marathons in Elixir
- Building payout and reporting software
- Leading a team of 2 engineers to build video streaming and transcoding software
- Repairing RabbitMQ cluster that was responsible for site wide outages
- Debugging distributed systems while oncall
Software Engineer
GuideSpark
Since November 2013
Menlo Park
United States - California
- Building and maintained a video editing platform in angular.
- Creating migration script to migrate customers from an old system to a new one.
- Writing tests extensive tests to avoid regressions and maintain site usability.
- Working with the Product team to deliver solid software that met the customer's business needs.
- Collaborating with Engineers of varying skill levels and from various countries.
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