I worked on Consul-based service discovery, building out infrastructure and APIs for developers to register and find services.

• Designed architecture and APIs for universally-reachable HTTP-based service discovery
• Developed APIs to register Services (e.g. Redis) with service discovery
• Added support for service discovery without a local daemon, resulting in less maintenance
• Wrote Terraform and Bash scripts to consistently produce correctly configured infrastructure

I worked on containerizing services used at Bloomberg, and making them easy to use for product teams.

• Created a pipeline to build Docker images from packages when a new version is released
• Built a service to provide on-demand cloud-hosted containers with services like Kafka
• Implemented user resource quotas (CPU, RAM), using Kerberos for authentication

I worked mostly on chat-bots at Yahoo, specifically on routing (between bots and chat platforms).

• Added database caching using Memcached to improve read performance
• Built phone number verification for user accounts over SMS
• Developed functionality for customers to message chat-bots from a merchant’s website

I worked on the main 500px site and API, using Ruby on Rails and Backbone/Marionette in Coffeescript. A few things I did there:

• Optimized the photo page to reduce the number of calls made to an API endpoint by 80%
• Built several components of the new home feed and onboarding flow to increase user engagement and retention
• Created new back-end components and APIs for Photos, Comments, and Quests
• Worked with other teams to improve metrics in the ETL pipeline and Google Analytics

As a web intern at TextNow, I worked on the TextNow web client, using Angular, Backbone & Marionette, and Node. A few things I did there:

• Improved JS asset injection, speeding up load times by 25% and reducing file sizes by 40%
• Built a new landing page and a new payment process for checkout
• Architected and built a localization switcher
• Added a Mocha-based automated testing framework