About Me

Professional Experience

Crunchyroll (November 2023 - Current)

Software Engineer III
  • Architect and feature lead for Crunchyroll's new metadata ingestion pipeline, leading ~5 engineers and collaborating with 4 other teams on development. This pipeline will ingest and process metadata for all new anime content made available to 15M+ Crunchyroll customers
  • Designed live-streaming functionality in Crunchyroll's metadata pipeline and led ~5 engineers on its implementation, enabling simulcast access for 60k+ concurrent viewers per episode
  • Introduced feature flags to the Content Delivery team, improving rollback speed up to 160x (~40min to 15sec)
  • Owns and moderates the Content Delivery team's design and architecture reviews
  • Mentors junior and mid-level engineers on topics such as code and design review, as well as distributed systems
  • Technologies used: Go, TypeScript/Node.js, SQL, AWS, Docker

Amazon (May 2021 - May 2023)

Software Development Engineer
  • Designed and implemented the horizontal carousel pagination feature on the Android application, enabling ~11.4M daily instances of faster content selection for customers
  • Wrote backend code to aggregate, localize, and format data for the Android application, granting up to 1.8M daily customers access to Thursday Night Football recordings
  • Mentored an intern, nurturing their growth to the point of them receiving a full-time return offer
  • Technologies used: JavaScript/Node.js, AWS, SQL, Android (Kotlin, Java)

College of Southern Idaho (Dec 2016 - April 2021)

Software Developer
  • Built a new storefront payment app, saving the college an estimated $8.19M in the event of a potential data breach
  • Trained 20+ employees in IT on Git and GitHub and led the onboarding of 60+ projects to modern version control
  • Built a 250k+ per-hour throughput data pipeline to automate the creation of all user accounts, sections, courses, terms, and enrollments in the college's learning management system
  • Technologies used: JavaScript/Node.js, C#/.NET, SQL, Microsoft Azure, AWS

Education

Arizona State University

Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering