Summary

Stumbling into web design at a young age, I've been building apps, websites, and tools for over 15 years. I love solving problems and digging into code to determine how it works or could be improved. I absorb everything I can about my work and aspire to deliver elegant, scalable, and reliable code.

I love what I do, and aim to grow with like-minded engineers, building amazing tech.

Experience
Venmo — July 2019-present
    MTS 2 Software Engineer
    • Tech lead for Venmo’s debit card. Crafted high-level design documentation, led feature discovery, and resolved intricate technical debt.

    • Built comprehensive tooling for managing Venmo service deployments, with support for canaries, monitoring, and automatic rollback functionality using GitHub Actions.

    • Lowered operational costs by load testing services and optimizing resource allocation.

    • Migrated services from company maintained Kubernetes clusters to Amazon EKS.

    MTS 1 Software Engineer
    • Led several cross-functional teams to rewrite existing ledger functionality using Cassandra and gRPC for a more scalable, feature-rich architecture.

    • Tech lead for Venmo's credit card. Remained knowledgeable of all project pieces while specializing in repayments domain.

    • Led final stages of testing the Venmo credit card, which included representing Venmo engineering in partner meetings and developing a bug triage process which allowed us to track, manage, and fix over 600 tickets in a few weeks.

    • Pioneered Venmo's adoption of GitHub Actions for CI/CD, establishing workflows and actions that were reused across the organization.

Skills
Languages and Frameworks
  • Python — Django, Pytest
  • Ruby — Rails, Rspec, Selenium, Jekyll
  • Javascript — jQuery, Node.js, Backbone.js, Jasmine
Data Systems
  • Databases — MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB
  • Data Stores — Redis
Miscellaneous
  • Event Driven Systems — RabbitMQ, Kafka
  • Application Monitoring — DataDog, New Relic
  • Infrastructure — GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS CDK, Jenkins
Education
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) — 2008-2012
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
  • Minor in Psychology
  • Information Security specialization
  • Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority member