Professional Experience
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Trumid
Jan 2023 - current
- Saved $75k / month (7% of company's AWS costs) by optimizing EC2 instance selection.
- Instilled culture of democratic sprint retrospectives, post-mortems, and internal KPIs, initiating team's investment in continuous process iteration and improvement.
- Created Go microservice to update client FIX sessions, reducing lead time from weeks to minutes.
- Increased resilience to availability zone outages and lowered application storage costs by 80% via migration from EBS to a combination of EFS and node ephemeral storage.
Contractor → FTE SWE II → SWE III → SWE IV
Nasdaq
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
- Promoted three times in four years, culminating in senior engineer.
- Led team responsible for ETL pipeline to ingest and standardize >1 billion FIX messages / day / client.
- Championed, designed, and implemented CI/CD pipeline and DevOps infrastructure for Python application suite, including static typing, linting, Puppet module, PyPI server, unit tests, documentation, and mentoring junior developers.
- Migrated application from on-prem VMs to Kubernetes in EKS, creating Helm charts, Terraform modules, GitLab CI/CD pipeline, and DataDog and Splunk alerts.
- Reduced monthly AWS costs 40% via optimizing Kafka configuration and scaling down in off-hours.
- Prioritized creation and maintenance of documentation, encompassing architectural diagrams, runbooks, onboarding materials, budget forecasting, sprint retrospectives, and detailed post-mortems including RCA, debugging and recovery steps, and future process improvements.
Software Engineer I
Northrop Grumman
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
- Created convolutional neural network to classify CDMA radio signals at negative signal-to-noise ratios. Awarded trade secret for work, which was presented in internal symposium.
Skills
- LanguagesGo, Python, Bash, Java
- PlatformsLinux, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Docker
- Infrastructure as CodeHelm, Terraform, Argo CD, GitLab CI/CD
- ObservabilityPrometheus / Grafana / Alertmanager, Datadog, Splunk
