My role here was some parts a developer, for example the maintenance and evolution of the Forem Cloud SaaS offering's infrastructure, or the handling of operational maintenance inherent to running a Rails app on Heroku, but was in many more parts a mentor, tutor, and interface with an open-source development community. I worked to make our infrastructure confidently and meaningfully accessible by both any engineer at the company, and by external contributors to Forem's repository.

My arrival marked the beginning of the eventually-3-person infrastructure team, sitting at the middle of two product development teams and tasked with service stability and developer experience. My role here was one part operational maintenance and evolution of a long-standing Rails monolith on Heroku, one part greenfield development of internal tooling, and one heaping helping of cross- team mentorship on best practices for developing observable, debuggable, and robust code.

After joining as a seed-round engineer and helping to build the launch product, I went on to found the SRE and "DevOps" team here, tasked with all things infrastructure, operations, and developer experience.

I made our tens of thousands of lines of Terraform more accessible to product engineers, I oversaw and scaled both the public-facing multi-tenant application and the internal customer success tooling, I established logging, metrics, and observability practices, and I built developer tooling to build and deploy applications faster and more securely.

Architected and built new in-house data ingestion pipeline for US Census data capable of processing tens of millions of rows in under a half hour. Migrated backend services to an EKS-based Kubernetes cluster which I maintained.

Full-stack development of a Django application and the observability and monitoring thereof, including integration with third-party media providers such as Getty and AudioBlocks.

I implemented performant APIs powering a latency-sensitive text editing application, I managed AWS resources with CloudFormation, I ensured data security and GDPR compliance in S3 and via new IAM policy rollouts, and I helped to level up the team's understanding of how and why Git works.

Eventually becoming the de-facto lead of the frontend team, I rewrote the aging SpotOn frontend with modern web components, with performance and maintainability as key tenets. I also built microservices to shuttle around financial data.

This far back in time, I was working on things that resemble my contemporary work quite little, and some of the toolchains used aren't even maintained anymore! Why don't we just call it a résumé here and be done, eh?