Adobe

Software Engineering Manager

realtor.com

I am leading the Home Rental Experience Experience at realtor.com (90M MAUs).

• Led a team to design the backend architecture from a monolithic to a micro-service based orchestration layer using Node and GraphQL which has reduced web transaction times by 20%, leading to an increase in various KPIs such as UU, ULS, and bounce rate.
• Managed and delivered rebuilding of the rentals experience on Realtor.com in React which decreased render time, improved the average search result rank which resulted in 2x MAUs and a 50% increase in revenue YoY.
• Collaborated with the QE team to implement automated testing which lowered the release time from a bi-weekly to a daily basis, resulting in a reduction of defects leaking to production and decreasing the lead time from an average of 17 days to 5 days


My responsibilities include:

•   Collaborating with cross-functional groups such as Product Managers and Project Managers regarding product definition, schedule, scope, and project-related decisions.
•  Mentoring and supporting the growth of two teams.
•  Defining the success criteria of the team by working with the upper-level management to decide on the OKRs and execute initiatives in a timely manner.
•  Improving team productivity by introducing scrum best practices such as task estimation, backlog grooming, epic tagging, sprint demo, and retrospective.

Senior Software Engineer

Verizon Labs

Crossroads app  is an app (available on iOS and Android) which auto-matches you with other players looking to play similar events in Destiny, Overwatch and League of Legends (games). 

•  Architected the back-end in node.js  and mongoDB to support event creation and auto-matching of players
•  Engineered design to support various features such as dynamic updates, push notifications, event auto-merging and invitations
•  Extended app functionality to support multiple games with the same platform
•  Performed load testing to identify optimizations needed for faster response times

Amazon Web Services

AWS RDS is a highly complex distributed environment where we want to make our customer's databases highly available, durable, and scalable in the cloud. I worked for the PostgreSQL engine team.

• Helped launch the Read Replica feature for PostgreSQL engine in Amazon RDS 
specifically working on displaying the replication status and replication lag to customers.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/rds-postgres-read-replicas/
• Supported the launch of the Read Replica (hot standby) feature for PostgreSQL engine in Amazon RDS specifically working on displaying the replication status and replication lag to customers. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/rds-postgres-read-replicas/
• Implemented the popular PostgreSQL extension pg_stat_statements in Amazon RDS. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/pgstatstatements.html
• Collaborated to restructure the test framework to improve test coverage by adding various combinations of database instance types, features, etc.

Software Development Engineer

Amazon

• Implemented a proxy client for DynamoDB and S3 that would interact with the Perl/Mason layer
• Restructured the web page to display dynamic content to help investigators make their decisions
• Built a web service to add, remove and edit tags associated with objects, used DynamoDB for storage
• Deployed the Proxy Service globally, wrote integration tests to ensure full continuous deployment
• Designed a web page using ruby to allow investigators to modify the flow of questions for investigations

Software Development Engineer Intern

Technology Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry.
Proven leader who is strong in communication skills and leading teams across multiple locations. Strong engineering professional with a Master's degree focused in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

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