Slalom · Jan 2019 – May 2021

Software Architect / Lead Senior Software Engineer

Architected and engineered an elastic, end-to-end restaurant-commerce foundation spanning third-party ordering, point-of-commerce processing, preparation, driver pickup, and customer handoff. The platform now reports more than 180 million orders annually and 99.99% uptime across global kiosk deployments. Designed as a reusable Slalom pattern, the architecture remains in use at more than 10 companies, with follow-on implementations handling up to 1.5 million transactions per second.

Role portfolio · 4 areas of impact

Elastic commerce architecture

Design an elastic commerce foundation

Architected and engineered an elastic, end-to-end restaurant-commerce foundation spanning third-party ordering, point-of-commerce processing, preparation, driver pickup, and customer handoff. The platform now reports more than 180 million orders annually and 99.99% uptime across global kiosk deployments. Designed as a reusable Slalom pattern, the architecture remains in use at more than 10 companies, with follow-on implementations handling up to 1.5 million transactions per second.

180M+ orders annually

99.99% uptime across global kiosk deployments

Follow-on systems up to 1.5M TPS

Pattern still used across 10+ companies

0.05% reported error margin

System architecture

Lead event-driven ETL on AWS

Designed, implemented, and led event-driven AWS data-processing systems, using lean architecture and targeted technical discovery to reduce delivery risk.

Event-driven ETL

AWS serverless services

Architecture spikes and discovery

Engineering quality

Build quality into the delivery path

Established strict CI/CD and pull-request gates, test-driven development, and production observability across projects and integrations.

CI/CD and PR gates

Test-driven development

Operational observability

Technical leadership

Grow engineering judgment beyond the project

Founded a distributed algorithms and computer-science affinity group and mentored three engineers through a women-focused career program.

Distributed technical community

3 engineers mentored

Interview evidence

Scope, decisions, and durable impact.

Additional evidence

Evidence 01

Architected and engineered an elastic, end-to-end restaurant-commerce foundation. The platform now reports more than 180 million orders annually and 99.99% uptime across global kiosk deployments; the reusable Slalom pattern remains in use at more than 10 companies, with follow-on implementations handling up to 1.5 million transactions per second.

Evidence 02

Designed and led delivery of event-driven ETL architectures on AWS.

Evidence 03

Founded and led a distributed software-engineering affinity group focused on algorithms and foundational computer science.

Evidence 04

Mentored three people through a women-focused career and engineering mentorship program.

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