Bed Bath & Beyond (formerly Overstock.com)
Principal Developer · Salt Lake City, UT · 2014–Present
- Digital Asset Management Platform: Assumed sole ownership of a production media-ingest and digital asset management application, learned the existing legacy stack, self-taught React, and maintained the full-stack system.
- High-Traffic Service Migration: Replaced high-traffic on-premises services with GCP-based services, using Go, Terraform, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Cloud Functions.
- Marketing Email Platform: Simplified a 40+ microservice platform maintained by a single developer into a smaller event-driven, domain-oriented architecture.
- Image Search: Replaced a high-maintenance Elasticsearch cluster with PostgreSQL JSONB and full-text search, reducing architectural complexity and infrastructure cost.
- Promotions & Pricing: Led the redesign and refactoring of a complex pricing engine, resolved critical sales inconsistencies, and simplified promotional lifecycle tracking.
- Private Label Credit Card: Designed and implemented loyalty and rewards point management for a co-branded credit card offering.
- Personalized Web Experience: Technical design and implementation for converting a monolithic recommendation system to microservices; named inventor on U.S. Patent No. 11,734,368, System and Method for Creating a Consistent Personalized Web Experience Across Multiple Platforms and Channels (2023).
- AI Hackathon: Created an agentic shopping application using custom MCP servers, Gemini, and Vertex AI; won a Google-run company hackathon.
- Technical Leadership: Mentored engineers from junior through staff level through code reviews, design discussions, architecture guidance, and technical planning. Authored system diagrams, technical plans, and RFCs and presented technical proposals to engineering and business leadership.
- Engineering Management: Formally managed a four-developer team during an organizational reorganization while continuing to contribute as an individual developer.