Senior Software Engineer
- Led the team's implementation of Kafka Connect in response to the organization-wide directive to regionalize the platform, ensuring seamless cross-country operations
- Strategically broke down the implementation into milestones, fostering a structured approach to project management. Proactively addressed concerns, guided the team through each phase, and contributed to a successful overall implementation
- Played a pivotal role in providing support beyond my team, actively engaging with other teams to unblock challenges, swiftly addressing queries, and sharing insights gained from the milestone-based approach to ensure the successful adoption of streaming solutions
- Identified and addressed various issues during the streaming journey, contributing to an updated runbook and knowledge-sharing initiatives to prevent similar challenges in other teams
- Directed the launch of new country operations, collaborating closely with product teams and other departments to gather essential information, and refined the country launch checklist to streamline future expansions
- Applied in-depth debugging skills to resolve Postgres slow queries, delving into the TypeORM code base. Improved query performance significantly from 6 seconds down to 200 milliseconds