OfferUp

Staff Software Engineer

APRIL 2023 - OCTOBER 2025, Boca Raton

Technical lead for communications team, supporting push/email/chat systems that processed millions of notifications per day.

  • Introduced support for progressive traffic migration from Route53/ELB to Gloo and created documentation for teams to facilitate adoption
  • Contributed to the Gloo and Flagger open-source projects to support Envoy’s slow start, enabling teams to mitigate effects of JVM warm-up
  • Introduced k6 load testing project structure and CI integration. Added utilities for generating TypeScript clients from OpenAPI specifications to accelerate adoption
  • Improved monitoring and streamlined deployment process for Flink applications running in K8s

Senior Software Engineer

MARCH 2022 - APRIL 2023, Boca Raton

Joined advertising platform team for direct sold and programmatic ads, supporting various ad networks and formats for web and mobile clients.

  • Built Apache Beam/Flink streaming application to aggregate ad events metrics
  • Designed and implemented real time ad pacing architecture for direct sold advertising
  • Spearheaded migration of Dropwizard microservices from EC2 into K8s infrastructure
  • Designed and implemented client side ad conversion tracking for React and Google Tag Manager

Modernizing Medicine

Associate Software Architect

NOVEMBER 2020 - MARCH 2022, Boca Raton

Technical lead for greenfield payment processing service using Spring Boot microservices and AWS SNS/SQS for an event driven architecture - the team consisted of 3 engineers.

  • Established SDLC for microservices using minikube and Helm
  • Introduced Terraform CDK for IaC in all environments including local
  • Used Antora for documentation in codebase

In addition to my responsibilities as architect, I also worked closely with our Cloud Services team for DevOps and troubleshooting.

  • Created and maintained Jenkins jobs for CI/CD
  • Maintained Ansible/Terraform for infrastructure
  • Created and maintained K8s manifests using Kustomize/Helm
  • Operationalize Kafka Connect in K8s using MKS

Technical Lead

JUNE 2018 - NOVEMBER 2020, Boca Raton

Technical lead for a team of 3 engineers. Created UIs and REST APIs for large web application monolith, providing guidance and mentorship to other developers in the organization.

  • Developed strategy and POC for adoption of Cloud Foundry/Kubernetes
  • Created POC for build migration from Ant/Maven to Gradle
  • Maintained tooling for Less/AngularJS compilation

Software Engineer

AUGUST 2015 - JUNE 2018, Boca Raton

  • Web development using Angular, Bootstrap
  • Java REST services for mobile/web apps
  • Migrated legacy UI implementation to Webpack and Less
  • Lead the adoption of Docker for containerization of developer tooling

Intermedix

Software Engineer

AUGUST 2012 - AUGUST 2015, Fort Lauderdale

  • Android development with business rule engine in Rhino
  • Web development using Knockout, Bootstrap, Lodash
  • Java REST services for mobile apps

Florida State University

Software Engineer

JUNE 2012 - AUGUST 2012, Fort Lauderdale

  • Integration in C++ for Scantron machines
  • C++/Lua plugin API for business rules
  • Integration with an Oracle database and a JSP front-end

Wordio

Architect

OCTOBER 2011 - AUGUST 2013, Tallahassee

Web Traffic Consultants

Web Developer

AUGUST 2011 - JUNE 2012, Tallahassee

  • Managed team working on Wordpress and Drupal websites