Resume

2022-Present - Sysco Labs

Work on a small but efficient team that manages search capabilities end to end on a storefront that handles $20 billion per year in revenue.

(2024 -) Staff Software Engineer

Enhance machine learning processes using user and sales data to feed back into the search algorithm (ElasticSearch rank eval, mean reciprocal rank optimization).
Experiment with hybrid search algorithms (vector, token) to provide more relevant user results.
Created a data lake (Delta Lake on S3) of product data to be used by development teams.
Improve the performance of product data ingestion to provide near-realtime product data updates in ElasticSearch from millions of Kafka messages per day.

(2022 - 2024) Senior Software Engineer

Maintained several ElasticSearch clusters on Elastic cloud. This included activities such as major version upgrades, resource scaling, and extension automation.
Designed, developed, and deployed a zero-downtime solution to migrate to multi-language and multi-seller search capabilities.
Theorized and experimented with improvements to search relevancy using machine learning.

(2020 - 2022) Senior Software Engineer

Helped with designing and developing the next generation loan origination platform, with the first product launching in January 2022.
Mentored junior developers, providing them the necessary training to get up and running at USAA.

(2017 - 2020) Software Developer and Integrator I

The majority of time was spent developing a loan pre-qualification system and government shutdown loans.
Won innovation competition (front-end development tooling), got to ride on the private plane.

(2016 - 2017) Software Developer and Integrator II

Developed several front-end and back-end applications to help with searching for vehicles, calculators, loan applications, and internal developer tooling.

Developed a customer portal that can be used to customize and view usage analytics for embeddable review widgets.
Helped cut costs from expensive survey companies and migrate to standardized project management software.

Created a content management system for schools to manage curated media that integrates into their learning management system.
Developed a web user interface for managing a multimedia streaming and recording hardware unit.

Developed enhancements for an in-house cosmetic surgery before and after photo gallery plugin in Joomla.
Converted hundreds of websites from Coldfusion to PHP.