Appian - Senior Software Engineer
04/2022 – 05/2022
- Overhauled service discovery within the Appian platform, enabling easy dynamic scaling of services
- Managed interns on team, onboarding them and mentoring them, with both accepting their return offers
- Led as a design advisor for internal teams wanting to leverage Kafka for their features, ensuring they could scale ten times the projected requirements without manual effort
Appian - Software Engineer II
10/2019 – 04/2022
- Recognized with an Impact Award by the CEO, highlighting my contributions to overhauling and upgrading Appian’s Kafka infrastructure, reducing production incidents by a large degree
- Conducted incident fire drills and built out onboarding documentation for use by new team members
- Championed shifting team’s release schedule from quarterly to weekly, optimizing time-to-impact
- Containerized services and worked on orchestration of cloud deployed services using Kubernetes, implementing a stateless Go operator to codify the Appian platform deployment logic
Appian - Software Engineer I
06/2018 – 10/2019
- Developed and maintained a scalable and highly available orchestration layer for in-house databases
- Deployed Prometheus monitoring stacks to Amazon Web Services, enabling real-time alerting
- Responded to customer incidents and outages 24/7, conducting post-mortems and root cause analyses
- Investigated and patched a memory leak in one of the core services of the platform, increasing site stability and saving thousands in AWS and Support costs