Brag 2025

Achievements

Cleaned up unused infra on old stack resulting in tighter security, cost saving and reduced developer cognitive load.
Responded to customer needs on scaling up infrastructure and observing the cost increase alongside usage.
Spearheaded incident response efforts and engineered an internal GitHub Actions workflow to streamline recovery processes.
Developed and deployed a “break glass detection” mechanism, enhancing infrastructure observability and operational confidence.
Delivered the “split monitoring stack” project aimed at improving security, operating safely and reducing cost in AWS accounts by approximately $1600 per month.
Migrated the PWA service resulting in faster deployment times, increased developer confidence and a unified deployment experience.
Completed additional projects such as upgrading lambda versions with no downtime, alerting on certificates, set up regional monitoring stack.
Oversaw scale-up for new customer and monitored related costs, managed scale-down afterwards.

Significantly expanded platform documentation, including contribution guidelines, development conventions, and workflow definitions.
Architected a comprehensive testing strategy for blue/green EKS deployment pipelines.
Redesigned documentation on VPN subscriptions, aligning on new process with security team.

Provided hands-on support to product engineers for debugging across services such as recording infrastructure, GoCD pipelines, out-of-hours deployments, and certificate renewal tasks.
Successfully onboarded new users to OpenSearch and refreshed associated documentation.
Enhanced GitHub Actions performance and readability, accelerating pull request processing and developer feedback cycles.
Volunteered with REDI School, organizing and hosting mock interviews to prepare aspiring engineers for real-world job experiences.

Launched and led new tech huddles to foster better alignment and collaboration across engineering teams.
Reimagined and relaunched the Whereby Community Volunteer Hours program to broaden employee engagement in volunteering efforts. Additionally set up mock interviews for developers to gain experience in interviewing.
Streamlined and documented the email/domain configuration process to support the sales team more effectively.
Maintained a professional and efficient standard in sharing photos of dogs 🐕.

Being more cautious around deployments and work:
- Postponed regional monitoring work as it would negatively impact ongoing discussions around regional services.
- Performed EKS/AMI upgrades on a cluster-by-cluster basis to anticipate any errors.
- Used an iterative process on the redshift-login lambda to account for each login rather than whitelisting all.
- Lead discussions with teams before decommissioning services (i.e cloud-observer, lambdas.)