Defined the project scope during conversations with leadership, chose technical tools, and wrote and deployed a reusable base upon which future work by different teams can be done.

Collaborated with stakeholders across other teams to ensure the smooth adoption of the API adapters in a production environment.

Delivered a working first implementation, complete with user and developer documentation that detail how a new instance of the project can be set up and the reasons behind technical choices.

Ported existing codebase from Python 2 to 3 in time for the Python 2 end of life deadline.

Setup continuous integration and test lifecycles of strategies to enable stable and correct deployments.

Improved interactive trader system performance by orders of magnitude.

Implemented basic infrastructure around the project; brought rollouts to the company standard, defined monitoring and alerting, wrote operational documents for on-call personnel, resolved an impasse that had blocked rollouts for six months.

Made numerous upstream contributions to open-source projects the company used, including gogo/protobuf, go-carbon, and zap.

Engaged in company-wide efforts to improve the resilience of services across all teams. Reviewed internal outage postmortems, industry lessons, and interviewed personnel to come up with a checklist that teams could use to assess their own status and see where improvement was needed.

Took ownership of the hotel search engine at Booking.com, a business-critical highly available distributed system, after its authors left the company. Communicated best-practices of its use to company users, ensured its capacity through the year of 2017, and provided strategies for future scaling of the system.

Took on other non-classical developer responsibilities as needed, including system administration at scale via Puppet and Salt, provisioning of new hardware, setup of monitoring and alerting, and communication with other teams and upper management in the absence of a product owner.

Gave a series of talks whose aim was to educate other developers at the company about our systems in the hope of making the boat go faster. Topics included the Booking.com hotel search engine, memory use in Java, and geometric interpretations of the average and standard deviations.

Stabilized the journal backlogs, making time-to-publication a known factor, enabling better communication with authors.

Wrote a linter of LaTeX documents customized for our editorial tasks, that was adopted by other editors while still in the prototype stage, and whose use lead to increased editor productivity.

Analyzed hundreds of thousands of records in our publications to estimate the value of building an in-house database of correctly formatted citations, and then argued the ROI was too low to be worth it.

Managed a team of remote copyeditors, ensuring quality through review and feedback cycles.

Top 10% performer among peer editors.

Took over maintenance and extension of in-house editing software.

Communicated with authors on final proof changes.

Gave involved weekly homework assignments and provided detailed individual feedback on improvement points, above what was required of teachers.

Constructed a lecture plan from a list of topics a common final exam would question students on.

Wrote and graded mid-term exams in coordination with other teachers.