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Slickdeals
San Mateo, CA
Senior Software Engineer II, Team Lead2026.03 — PRESENT
Senior Software Engineer2024.08 — 2026.03
PEAK ETL −97%
- Lead a cross-functional team of 5; mentored 2 engineers through design reviews that cut an Ops task −83% (30m → 5m).
- Architected a company-wide MCP server for natural-language querying of deal & product data — 45% prompt-to-pageview in week one; sped up content QA and merchant deal validation through Prime Day, contributing to crossing the $1M Amazon affiliate bonus tier on ~$40M referred revenue.
- Built Slickdeals Labs, a self-serve Vue/Vite platform on a Terraform-provisioned K8s node pool with ArgoCD and AWS PrivateLink — now the standard path for teams building on internal merchant data.
- Architected a human-in-the-loop ad scan pipeline using Gemini to segment and extract deals from scanned ad PDFs with full auditability — the standard pre-sale-season workflow at ~6m per scan.
- 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.
- Built pipelines and embedding infrastructure for an NLP comment-sentiment system — Databricks batch jobs plus vector retrieval surfacing content-level sentiment across user threads.
- 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).