Skills
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Backend Development: Python, FastAPI, Flask, Typescript, node.js, express
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DevOps: Docker, AWS ECS, Gitlab CI, Github Actions
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Generative AI: Vercel AI SDK, LiteLLM, Llama Index
Work Experience
- Technical Lead: Architect and lead engineer for enterprise readiness and self-hostable platform. Primary maintainer of Python code base.
- Mentorship & Leadership: Growing the team of full stack engineers via regular 1:1s and career conversations.
- Platform Lead: Directed architectural vision for backend systems, representing the platform in seasonal planning cycles while running weekly meetings with engineers to share knowledge and facilitate incremental change.
- Technical Lead: Coordinated cross-platform efforts across entire organization ranging from feature work related to subscriptions, onboarding, and fitness journeys to platform-level work enabling experimentation, metrics analysis, and payments.
- Mentorship & Leadership: Grew a global team of backend and frontend engineers via regular 1:1s, career conversations, and weekly platform meetings to foster collaboration and communal knowledge transfer.
- Architect: Designed API platform to automate manual company workflows across sales, delivery/operations, and customer service and support new iOS and web applications.
- Management: Mentored engineer at company while managing team of contractors to launch new API platform.
- Engineering: Contributed features to the platform before and after launch, enabling the company to pivot while growing.
- Search & Recommendations: Launched microservices for serving recommendations and search results to users, along with a pipeline for daily incremental updates.
- Headspace for Work: Technical lead for team of three that launched Headspace's new B2B platform and associated products.
- Subscription System: Designed and implemented a new payments and subscription service that runs alongside existing service, allowing for a controlled migration between platforms.
- Mentor: As first engineer in remote office, mentored and advised incoming platform engineers on their respective projects.
- Platform Lead: Co-lead API platform team, driving team and company-wide initiatives and running weekly meetings for roadmaps, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.
- iTunes: Architect and one of three developers working on single-page Ember.js application.
- iOS: Created framework shared between iOS Music and and multiple Apple TV applications.
- Apple TV: Wrote portions of the Apple Music application.
- iOS: Joined the iOS Music team to work on the redesigned Apple Music in iOS 10 and 11.
- Acquired by Apple. iOS client architect, core API and SDK designer, and initial developer advocate.
- Acquired as a subsidiary of Beats Electronics. Worked on the web player and TV apps.
- Launched Hulu+ on TV platforms, after working on desktop player and internal content management system.