Jayson V.

Worked with C-Suite to scale entire engineering organization. Worked with developers to design and implement a secure cryptosystem for secure hardware configuration and deployment using tried-and-true off-the-shelf technologies combined in innovative ways. Implemented first documentation and knowledge-base technology for company. Implemented fast prototyping software to turbocharge the collaborative creation of documentation. Set the standard for documentation at the company. Laid groundwork for compliance auditing. Developed change-management process. Leveraged GitHub to provide a trusted-third-party with automation driving the process. Migrated from manually-created Cloud resources to Infrastructure-as-Code. Implemented first Kubernetes clusters for tools and product software lifecycle deploys. Managed deploys declaratively using Flux. Worked with management to spin down products and services after a strategic pivot.

Built a number of critical subsystems in operations, infrastructure, and at an application-level. Took on jobs that nobody else would. Demonstrated that no problem is too big to fix. Pushed the envelope on infrastructure and data. Justified a team and built it. Was awarded "Be a Fixer" award after only working there for 4th months. Won trophy from privacy team for "going above and beyond to protect our customers' data". Implemented many firsts for Brex, including: - First Web Application Firewall - First Authentication Throttling Implementation - First Sanctions Blocks - Worked with security to fill in Infrastructure information for first SOC2 Certification Provided critical knowledge in infrastructure teams, doing significant Terraform and Kubernetes work. Imported and adapted many manually configured resources into Infrastructure-as-Code paradigm. Architected and implemented automatic database maintenance and policy engine for over 1,800 PostgreSQL databases. Extended it to automatically drive Kafka streams (via Debezium) for a number of core business infrastructure logic. Worked with stakeholders across the company to re-implement Card Dispute Tracking to keep up with scaling issues. Diagnosed scaling issues with initial Dispute Tracking. Extracted requirements for its successor. Delivered highly-available, performant solution that was complete from Database to Card Network to Operations UI. Provided critical database tuning knowledge to teams across the company. Developed innovative "in-database" migrations to drive a 300x speed-up in large data migrations. Wrote documentation to provide context and information on query tuning and database architecture for the rest of the company. Made the case for a database team; developed team charter; provided critical support to hire manager and team members; and acted as first tech lead.