James Q.

Migrated Aliya's older Data Science platform to a newer, scalable open-source platform, resulting in ~ 70% reduction of AWS costs for DS, while improving cloud utilization and throughput of the DS team. Provided support to our CISO to maintain Aliya's security controls and pass our SOC-2 and 3rd-party security audits. Designed and deployed infrastructure to deploy, backup, and scale a secure production API wrapping our custom credit risk machine learning models to the cloud, with a 99.999% up-time SLA. Designed and implemented Aliya's Payroll Integration (aVerify) product from conception to productionization. Implemented various techniques, from Lambda functions to spot instances, to reduce Aliya's overall cloud footprint. Reduced our monthly spend across all accounts by ~50%.

As Co-Founder, helped our Founder fully design our vision for what it would take to build the 'credible web'. As CTO, I lead all technical efforts to build the platform, which included designing and implementing the platform, including backend APIs (Python), frontend applications (AngularJS), and hosting the application on DigitalOcean