Built foundational infrastructure and platform layer for Vesta's product
Shipped a variety of full-stack product features supporting Vesta's first production customers
Led team of engineers building out Vesta's core product and public API
Managed a group of engineers across Ladder: mentored and set career goals, gave continuous feedback, ran performance reviews, and advocated to leadership on their behalf
Set technical direction on one of Ladder's product teams by writing tech specs, scoping projects, and reviewing code
Ran Ladder's SWE recruiting program: sourced and interviewed candidates, made hiring decisions, and closed offers. Grew engineering team by 50% in 2021
Responsible for overall security posture, including risk management, employee training, and proactive and reactive responses to possible threats
Directed infrastructure roadmap, including performance, metrics & alerting, and stability
Collaborated with legal to build a comprehensive infosec program complying with life insurance regulations in all 50 states
Negotiated contracts and managed relationships with IT and engineering third parties
Enabled real-time metrics by reducing ETL latency from 24 hours to under 10 seconds
Designed new CI/CD workflow to speed up developer productivity and reduce deployment risk
Set up autoscaling infrastructure to handle traffic spikes of up to 20x baseline
Enabled third-party "App Store" by supporting external data stores in the data model
Directly impacted customer signing by developing several API endpoints and by improving platform performance by over 50%
Dramatically increased release and developer velocity by automating regression tests and enforcing API contracts across microservices
Implemented Linux IMA in Android devices using the embedded TrustZone secure environment for trusted boots
Developed CNE operations tool for collection of computer-to-computer communications
Wrote utilities for lightweight heuristic-based malware detection