Accomplishments

Mentoring Engineers

I have mentored 10+ engineers in my career, helping them grow in their careers and achieve their goals. I take pride in fostering a culture of learning and growth, and seeing mentees go on to achieve their goals brings unimaginable joy.

Building the Orgs Product Expansion Team

Founded and built the Organizations Product Expansion team from zero, transforming an infrastructure-focused group into a thriving product engineering team. Recruited, hired, and developed talented engineers, establishing team culture, processes, and technical direction. Grew the team to become fully independent and self-sufficient, capable of owning and driving product initiatives end-to-end while maintaining high engineering standards.

Customer & Payment Method Sharing

Led engineering efforts to launch customer and payment method sharing, previously thought to be impossible. After years of development, this product changed the trajectory of Organizations/enterprises on Stripe while capturing marquee new users and their business.

Ops & Reliability Lead

I served as the ops and reliability lead for taking a new service from 0 to 1 at Stripe, achieving 99.999% availability and sub-10ms p99 latency, scaling the service from 0 RPS to tens of thousands. I was initially brought onto Stripe to help move from monolithic architecture into SOA, and successfully launching and scaling this core data-providing service was incredibly fulfilling and reassuring.

Global Database Migration

Solo designed and executed the migration of 11 live PostgreSQL databases and 10+ TB of data from single primary/replica architecture to global cellular architectures while minimizing downtime and preventing data loss.

$860K Annual Cost Savings

Designed and developed comprehensive load testing and performance tuning initiatives that saved Stripe $860K annually in infrastructure costs. Through performance tuning, bottleneck analysis, host rightsizing, and fleet downscaling, I optimized our systems without compromising performance. I've always appreciated being able to save the company more money than they were paying me — it's a tangible way to demonstrate value and worth to the organization.

First Class Integrations

Designed, developed, and mentored 2 junior engineers to deliver parameter mapping and first-class integrations for HTTP APIs, improving developer experience and enabling powerful mapping/routing layers to users.

VPC Link V2

Developed VPC Link V2, enabling private integration connections for HTTP APIs, improving security and network architecture options. Included developing a "Reaper" to automatically deactivate unused integrations.

Multi-Tenant Infrastructure Migration

Consolidated over 10M live APIs from single-tenant to multi-tenant infrastructure, achieving significant cost savings on infrastructure and operational overhead.

Auto-Rotating Certificate Solution

Put plainly: rotating certs stinks. I developed a solution to migrate live ALBs supporting millions of RPS to auto-rotating ACM certificates, eliminating manual certificate rotation and preventing service disruptions.

Simulation Cosmetic Immersion

Developed a system of comprehensive cosmetic improvements to ultra-realistic locomotive simulations, significantly improving immersion and providing reality-like training experiences for conductors.

Mentoring