Professional Experience
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Trumid
Jan 2023 - current
- Saved $75k/month (7% of company's total AWS costs) by optimizing EC2 usage.
- Increased resilience to availability zone outages and lowered storage costs by 80% via migration from EBS to a combination of EFS and 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, standardize, and transmit >1 billion trade messages per day per client.
- Championed, designed, and implemented CI/CD pipeline and DevOps infrastructure for Python application suite, including linting, Puppet module, PyPI server, unit tests, documentation, and mentoring junior developers.
- Migrated application from on-prem VMs to Kubernetes in EKS. Created Helm charts with auto-update triggers for internal dependencies, DataDog and Splunk alerting, and Terraform modules to deploy all AWS resources.
- Reduced monthly AWS costs by 50% through strategies such as scaling down aggressively during off-hours and examining tradeoffs in managed services.
- 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 neural network to classify CDMA radio signals at negative SNRs. Awarded trade secret for work, which was presented in internal symposium.
