Work History

Snapchat - Software Engineer

Seattle WA. Dec 2021 - Current

  • Worked on the advertiser payments team to build systems that accurately and reliably collected 98% of company revenue. Utilized Google Cloud Platform AppEngine, Datastore, BigQuery and Cloud Tasks to build simple efficient systems.
  • Onboarded to the team quickly and built an advertising billing model and payment method to be offered in 3 new countries while collaborating with front end teams, multiple project managers and the taxes team after being part of the team for less than a year.
  • Identified and implemented a simple solution to reduce the number of advertiser support requests, reducing the number of support requests in our highest support category by 22%.
  • Designed and built a system of notifications in less than four weeks for an existing payment method option to increase advertiser spend resulting in an increase of $20,000+ in revenue with minimal maintenance required.
  • Designed and implemented support tool improvements after identifying repetitive manual operational tasks for team members to reduce time spent on manual operations by 12 engineering hours a month and reduce response time to advertiser support requests by an average of 12+ hours.

Amazon - Software Development Engineer 1

Seattle WA. Aug 2020 - Nov 2021.

  • Collaborated with internal clients to understand their use cases, resolve their issues, and did the development for faster payments which processes over $30B a year and reduced time for payment by 99.9%
  • Utilized AWS technologies such as Lambda, DynamoDB, and Elastic Container Service, and cloud development kit to build scalable distributed systems managed via continuous deployment pipelines.
  • Designed and implemented workflows to simplify and remove problematic steps and reduce the number of monthlyoncall pages by 10% and the number of client support tickets by 8%.
  • Mentored Software Development Engineer intern to have a successful project and receive a return offer.
  • Created and led live hands-on learning sessions on cloud technologies with 70+ attendees ranging from new hires to principal engineers. Supported 2 other learning sessions reaching an additional 150+ engineers across multiple orgs.

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