Optimizely
Senior Software Engineer — promoted April 2025Software Engineer II
Leading Web Experimentation initiatives and engineering excellence.
- —Led architecture and backend development of a real-time Contextual Bandit (CMAB) experimentation system delivering ML-driven personalization via low-latency APIs, reducing decision latency from ~400ms to under 200ms through hybrid Redis + session caching.
- —Built an AI-powered architecture intelligence system (Claude Code + GitHub Copilot) spanning 71 microservice repositories, with 15 custom investigation skills and 3 specialized agent personas.
- —Led migration of Edit Proxy from Python 2 to 3 on Google App Engine, reducing security vulnerabilities by 99% in 3 months.
- —Resolved a critical AWS DynamoDB auto-scaling issue for a high-load distributed system averaging 450 req/s with spikes to 45K during peak hours, achieving 99.9% uptime.
- —Mentored junior engineers and performed code reviews, enforcing best practices and guiding system design decisions.
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