Plate 02 · Grand Prismatic Spring, Wyoming
Experience
Four years
bridging product
and engineering.
Sep 2023 — Present
American Express · Phoenix, AZ
Software Engineer I
Led refactor of customer-facing API integrations (request batching, N+1 elimination) — 80% latency reduction, 85% FaaS volume cut. Delivered 56 PRs in 2025 (+12% YoY). Integrated metric collection into the Definition of Readiness.
May 2022 — Sep 2023
American Express
Junior Engineer
Spearheaded first automated performance-testing suite on GHA. Migrated 7 REST APIs to GraphQL and shipped Core Data Subgraph MVP across 12 PRs. Conceptualized the Deprecation Protocol.
Education
San Jose, CA
San José State University
B.S. Information Science & Data Analytics
San Ramon, CA
Diablo Valley College
A.S. Computer Science
The Tool Kit
Languages
- JavaScript (ES6+)
- Java
- Python
- Kotlin
- SQL
- HTML5 · CSS3
Frameworks
- Node.js
- GraphQL
- React.js
- Spring Boot
- Astro.js
- Jest
Data & Infra
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- AWS
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Cassandra
Product
- Agile / Scrum
- Roadmap Planning
- KPI Tracking
- OpenSearch
- JIRA · Confluence
- Tableau