November 2024 - Present
Platform Engineer @ National Basketball Association
I finally made it to the league! Not exactly the way I thought I would when I was in 6th grade tho...
Responsibilities
- Maintained and extended high-traffic middle-ware API that serves all NBA App clients, ensuring performance and stability across 21 different platforms
- Engineered and managed content delivery and caching strategies utilizing Redis, Akamai, and Varnish to ensure API resiliency and low-latency
- Key contributor in architecture design and implementation of greenfield backend platform to replace legacy Redis-based caching with a durable event-driven pipeline using RedPanda (Kafka) and MongoDB
- Assisted in design and implementation for microservices to ingest change events from upstream services, aggregate and transform the data, and persist results to a centralized datastore
- Reduced our reliance on fragile polling-based systems, improving upstream stability and preparing the system for future scalability
- Lead engineer on a high-visibility initiative to provide smart links that redirect users to game broadcaster platforms, respecting location based blackout restrictions
- Designed and built a microservice to consume broadcaster update events and updates Akamai EdgeKV , enabling smart user redirection to appropriate broadcaster platforms
- Implemented Akamai edge-compute solution to perform lightning fast user redirect based on user location
- Bootstrapped cloud-agnostic infrastructure for microservices, enabling seamless deployment to both Azure and AWS Kubernetes clusters amid an ongoing cloud provider migration
- Collaborated across multiple teams to gather requirements
Azure Devops
C#
nextJs
MongoDB
Redis
RedPanda
Kubernetes
Helm
.NET
2022 - 2024
Software Engineer @ Penlink
As a full-time software engineer at Penlink working their flagship product - PLX - I've continued to learn and grow as an engineer, and I have been able to conquer bugs and features of larger scope.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with project management to clarify requirements and timelines for new features and bug fixes
- Develop new features, modify existing features, and hunt down bugs
- Conduct time-sensitive hotfixes for customers, ensuring their investigations aren’t hindered by technical issues
- Learned the importance of software architecture especially while maintaining legacy systems
- Conduct code review and provide feedback on coworkers’ pull requests to ensure high quality code standards
- Facilitate learning through documentation and open communication of my mistakes
- Demonstrate excellent presentation skills via leading dmonstrations of my feature work to executive, sales, and training teams
Azure Devops
C#
XAML
Agile
ORACLE SQL
.NET
2021 - 2022
Software Development Intern @ Penlink
This was my first job in software. It was a wonderful experience learning to write production level code with a team of several experienced engineers that eventually led to a full time position.
Responsibilities
- Gained familiarity with software development methodologies
- Implemented full-stack functionality to add bookmarks to user cases
- Maintained software by tracking down issues logged by QA and making appropriate code changes
- Learned the importance of software architecture especially while maintaining legacy systems
