Experience

Principal Software Engineer

CarMax - Catalog
Oct 2017 - Nov 2024 Richmond, Virginia

The Commerce Catalog team is building the next generation platform for supporting a CarMax marketplace. With a background in platforms and services, I am using my previous experience in building and supporting our existing engines behind carmax.com (search, store and vehicle services) to empower our consumers with a flexible and robust new platform that will support merchandising not just vehicles and services but open up opportunities for parts, auctions and any other related products in the future.

As a core team member and principal software engineer, I have contributed towards:

Architectural design decisions concerning schemas, cloud platform, data ingestion, batching, monitoring and alerting
API features for search, vehicle, store, and many other services along with unit and integration tests in C#, .Net, and Node
Internal sites to monitor metrics, service bus messages, and DLQs; purge and reseed mechanisms along with invoking batch jobs, vehicle research, history, and management, in React and C#
Azure infrastructure-as-code and pipelines-as-code that use ARM templates for our resources and CI/CD pipelines in YAML and Bicep
Logging telemetry, application log ingestion into Splunk, building alerts, and integration into PagerDuty for on-call alerting
Building in-memory, Redis, & edge caching and invalidation mechanisms via service buses and HTTP requests

Other achievements:

Owned, operated and handed-off ownership of JFrog Artifactory and TeamCity CI/CD tools
2022 CarMax Innovation Garage first prize winning team member
2019 CarMax Innovation Garage team lead - ideated, formed a team, coordinated project, and presented

As a principal software engineer, my responsibilities include making architectural decisions, task grooming and prioritizing, taking a larger role in reviewing pull requests, mentoring and interviewing along with hands-on work in building applications and on-call rotations.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Capital One - Card Technology (Contractor)
Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
Richmond, Virginia

Team Coders Gonna Code owns the Identity Management API - a critical part of the credit card application processing. As part of the team, my accomplishments include:

Compliance with the regulatory requirements of Know Your Customer
Several company-firsts including on-boarding message queues, database credential management and version control
Pipeline-as-code upgrades and maintenance

Product Owner | Software Engineer | Data Architect

Checkerboard Ltd. / eInvite.com
Sep 2006 - Aug 2016
Worcester, Massachusetts

In my decade at Checkerboard, I went from an SQL engineer, to a data engineer, a data architect, a full stack developer on internal applications, a full stack developer for our ecommerce platform, ending as the product owner / full stack developer of the ecommerce platform. Ultimately launching the platform as Papervane.com which was eventually merged into eInvite.com - Checkerboard's sister company and flagship online retail store.

Software Quality Analyst

Hanover Insurance Group
Jul 2004 - Aug 2006
Worcester, Massachusetts

Developed testing strategies for internal and online applications and implemented them using both manual and automated test software.

Education

Master of Science - Information Systems & Decision Sciences

Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Minor: Internal Auditing
Graduated: May 2003

Bachelor of Science - Information Science & Engineering

Bangalore University
Bangalore, India
Graduated: November 1999