WayfairSoftware Architect - Staff Engineer (L5)
Mar. 2022 - May. 2023San Diego, California · Remote■ Promoted from Staff Software Engineer (L4) to Staff Software Engineer (L5). 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓5 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘚𝘳 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘧𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦s 𝘪𝘯 2022. 𝘐𝘯 2023, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴. ■ Commended as the 1st Architect at Wayfair to build relationships with and influence teams across organizations to fully adopt a framework. ■ Increased app health, product quality, architecture quality, and cross-platform stakeholder collaboration and alignment by leading two architecture groups, providing architectural oversight, coaching teams, and designing and developing top-quality changes meeting business goals, and architecture, platform, and system best practices. ■ Improved customer experiences and app stability by increasing visibility into app errors (observability) and meeting high levels of scalability, resilience, and reusability in architectural designs and development - including architecture plans and diagrams, phased transition plans, architecture videos, guidebooks, IDE file templates, governance guides, code, and assessing and mentoring on how-to evaluate external frameworks, SDKs, and libraries. ■ Influenced teams across platforms to reduce the risk of app crashes and other errors caused by third-party dependencies by creating and mentoring teams on the Seismograph Design Pattern. ■ Enhanced the engineering team's knowledge of designing frameworks to queue and send data batches by creating and evangelizing a design recipe with a pattern, use cases, ingredients list, and diagram. ■ Boosted code discovery and recognition by hosting and automating the generation of code documentation for the Android codebase monolith - including hundreds of modules. ■ Reduced 50% of high-priority networking bugs by leading a cross-platform/functional team to identify, plan solutions for, and fix critical network request bugs in the Android apps.