• Completed comprehensive home renovations, requiring project management, budgeting, vendor coordination, and design work.

(Laid off in 2024-12)

• Designed and built CI system using Temporal, Bazel, and Go for running 50K tests in polyglot mega repo which reduced pressure and cost on existing CI (which was resource-constrained, expensive, and experiencing frequent outages).
• Designed an auditing and provenance system for builds and tests that would also improve build times and test reliability by logging all egress from build and test containers and redirecting dependency fetching traffic to internal cache. Cost savings were estimated to be $200K per month to start.

Built Dodder, a Git-like version control system for Zettelkasten knowledge management in Go, featuring:

• Content-addressable storage with append-only object graph allowing multiple versions to coexist and satisfy concurrent build graphs
• Cryptographic signing and verification of objects across distributed repositories with ZSTD compression and Age encryption
• Sophisticated query engine supporting tags, full-text search, and Lua scripting integration
• Highly-modular architecture with pool-based memory management and custom binary index format for optimized IO
• HTTP/Unix socket API server with mTLS, remote synchronization, and cross-repository operations
• Git-style CLI (clone/push/pull/diff) with shell completion and comprehensive BATS/unit testing

Designed scaleable API release process as API contributions increased by 5×. Coordinated and managed all API releases, both internally and externally. Consulted for all API changes, including API token changes and domain-wide permissions changes Developed tooling for generating OpenAPI Spec directly from Scala and existing OpenAPI Spec. Mentored junior Developer Advocate and prepared them for transition to software engineer.

Partnered and consulted with biggest users and developers of the Google Ads API and the Google Shopping Content API (e.g., eBay). Contributed samples to the Google Ads Client Libraries (PHP, .NET). Point-of-Contact for major ML-based Google Ads feature (Performance Max ads campaigns). Analyzed Google Ads API and OAuth traffic to identify latency issues in new client libraries using custom sql-like analytics database. Created dashboard for auditing Google Ads API support and internal tools using Python / SQL / Kubernetes. Interviewed engineers. Produced videos and workshops.

(Team was dissolved in December 2019)

• Created roadmaps, prioritized work, and designed architecture for legacy Zagat, new user-generated content app, and editorialized restaurant finder.
• Designed Kubernetes architecture and Docker images. Reduced size of images from >500mb to <20mb. Led and implemented initiative to increase deploy frequency to several times a day (from once a month).
• Optimized use of Google Maps API and reduced costs by $20k/month. Integrated Firebase for user identity and sign-in. Integrated Stackdriver logging and metrics. Integrated Google CloudSQL. - Responsible for prioritizing and guiding work on zagat.com (legacy and new UGC product) - Responsible for roadmapping MVP, Beta, and launch of new UGC product
• Developed staging and local development environment for a mixed codebase (legacy and new product)