Experience

Senior Software Engineer — OptiFunder

Sep 2021 – Present • Remote, NY

Led development of scalable Django and Flask apps deployed on Google Compute Engine and Cloud Run.
- Backend: Django, Flask, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB.
- Frontend: HTMX, React, Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS.
- Database: PostgreSQL (Google Cloud SQL) and Redis.
- Google Cloud: Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Tasks, Cloud Storage ...
Built and maintained RESTful APIs with Django REST Framework and FastAPI for our optifunder APIs
Implemented distributed background processing with Google Cloud Tasks and Cloud Jobs to improve performance.
Established robust testing with Pytest, improving reliability and reducing production issues.
Contributed to system design/architecture and led a 3–5 developer team.
Optimized legacy schemas and queries, improving performance by 200%+.

Software Engineer — Trimble Maps

Oct 2020 – Oct 2021 • Princeton, NJ

Developed backend services with .NET Core, containerized with Docker, and deployed on AWS.
Automated CI/CD with Jenkins, Python, and Chef; reduced deployment times by 15%.
Modernized REST and SOAP services via ASP.NET Web APIs with blue‑green deployments.
Authored unit tests with NUnit/XUnit achieving ~85% coverage.
Improved SQL Server performance and transaction throughput, reducing query times by 30%.

Open Source Contributions

Django‑Storages — Signed URLs via IAM API

Developed feature to enable Google Cloud Compute services to generate signed URLs via IAM API.
Collaborated with maintainers to ensure secure and seamless integration of the feature, benefiting the community by enhancing cloud storage capabilities.

Languages

Python, C#, JavaScript

Frameworks

Django, Flask, FastAPI, ASP.NET Core, React, Celery, Pytest

Databases

PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Redis, DynamoDB

Cloud & DevOps

AWS, GCP, Cloud Run, Docker, Dev Containers, Terraform, Jenkins, Git

Strengths

System Design, Data Modeling, File Processing, Async & Parallel Processing

St. John’s University — B.S. Computer Science

Queens, NY • Aug 2016 – May 2020