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Slickdeals
San Mateo, CA
Senior Software Engineer II2026.03 — PRESENT
Senior Software Engineer2024.08 — 2026.03
PEAK ETL −97%
- Led migration from a PHP monolith to a distributed Python + Dagster platform — zero-downtime cutover via EKS traffic-mirroring validating 40M+ daily records.
- Cut pipeline runtime −97% (5.5h → 16m) and infra cost −40% with Polars and EKS fan-out execution.
- Architected a company-wide MCP server for natural-language querying of deal & product data — 45% prompt-to-pageview in week one, greenlit for external release.
- Scaled ingestion to 26 merchants (Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, eBay…) and modernized the dev platform with a uv monorepo + ArgoCD, cutting deploys −80% (10m → 2m).
- Lead a cross-functional team of 5; mentor 2 junior engineers through design reviews and end-to-end ownership.