About Me

I am a passionate back-end and systems engineer with 4+ years of professional experience. An easy-going person whose seriousness is reflected in code and tooling. I have a deep interest in the bridge between punching code into your favorite editor and seeing real business value derived from it.

Recent Accomplishments

Our microservice based system had an extremely complex test suite where tests were often non-deterministic, tests were easy to write but very hard to debug, and we were often mislead by successful tests who gave us false confidence and allowed us to ship bugs frequently.

• Refocused on testing paradigms including unit testing, component testing, and integration testing.
• Automated the testing process to gain true confidence before deploying to our production environment.

Previously our microservices had been built in a hand rolled, do it all, microservice framework. The framework paradoxically made services harder to write, more fragile, and less uniform due to ever-changing boiler plate generators. My focus was a back to basics, \textsc{kiss}, style of coding with an emphasis on standard libraries, fewer arbitrary imports, and reusable, single purpose, libraries for when the ecosystem did not already provide a high fidelity alternative.

• Realigned our coding standards with more industry standard tools and techniques.
• Removed around 100K lines of error prone code from our codebase.
• Improved deployment speed, service startup, and service reliability.

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