Heap
Software Engineer, Data Platform San Francisco, California and Remote January 2018 - presentSpearheaded adoption of Golang and worked on modernizing legacy codebase via service and API-first approach
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Owned and operated the central data store for Heap’s core functionality — a petabyte-scale PostgreSQL cluster
Improved reliability by >10x, query performance by >2x, and saved millions $/year
Led backend development of new analysis features, including Path Analysis
Established systems and processes for understanding and controlling AWS spend
Wore many other hats including blog post author, open source contributor, and DEI advocate. I've also onboarded my entire team, and interviewed ~90% of new grads in 2019 and most engineering management