Summary

Experience

Senior Software Engineer|Expedia Group

Seattle, WAMar 2022Present

• Designed and implemented new microservices using Spring Boot and Kafka, improving system scalability by 30% and processing over 1 million transactions daily.
• Optimized existing API endpoints, reducing average response times by 25% and enhancing user experience for critical travel booking flows.

Software Engineer II|Amazon

Seattle, WAJun 2019Feb 2022

• Developed and maintained backend services for the Amazon retail platform using Java 8, Spring Boot, and AWS, handling peak loads of 10,000 requests per second.
• Implemented robust data migration scripts and APIs, successfully transitioning 5TB of customer data with 0 downtime.
• Collaborated with front-end teams to define API contracts, speeding up integration by 20% and ensuring seamless data flow.

Junior Software Developer|T-Mobile

Bellevue, WAJul 2018Jun 2019

• Assisted in the development of internal tools and applications using Java and Spring MVC, improving operational efficiency for sales teams by 10%.
• Wrote comprehensive unit and integration tests, achieving 85% code coverage for new features.
• Supported database schema design and performed SQL queries for data analysis and reporting, reducing manual data extraction time by 5 hours per week.

Projects

Microservice Communication Demo

Jan 2023Mar 2023

• Developed a demonstration project showcasing inter-service communication patterns (e.g., synchronous REST, asynchronous Kafka) between multiple Spring Boot microservices.
• Implemented circuit breakers and retries using Resilience4j to enhance fault tolerance and stability across service calls.
• Utilized Docker Compose for easy setup and local testing of the entire microservice ecosystem.

Personal Finance Tracker API

Jul 2022Oct 2022

• Built a secure RESTful API using Spring Boot for managing personal financial transactions, categories, and budgets.
• Integrated Spring Security with JWT for authentication and authorization, ensuring data privacy for user accounts.
• Designed and implemented a PostgreSQL database schema to efficiently store and retrieve financial data, supporting complex queries for reporting.

Kafka Stream Processing Example

Nov 2021Dec 2021

• Created a proof-of-concept application demonstrating real-time data processing using Kafka Streams API with Spring Boot.
• Implemented stream transformations, aggregations, and windowing functions to process incoming events from a simulated data source.
• Showcased robust error handling and exactly-once processing semantics inherent to Kafka Streams for reliable data pipelines.

Education

University of Washington|Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Seattle, WASep 2014Jun 2018

• Graduated Magna Cum Laude with a GPA of 3.8/4.0.
• Awarded the Dean's List for six consecutive semesters for academic excellence.
• Completed capstone project: a real-time chat application using Java and WebSockets.

Skills

Programming Languages

JavaPythonSQLJavaScript

Frameworks & Libraries

Spring BootSpring MVCHibernateRESTful APIsJUnitMockitoKafka Streams

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBDynamoDB

Cloud Platforms

AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, ECS)Azure

Tools & Methodologies

GitDockerKubernetesJenkinsMavenGradleJiraAgileMicroservices