SIMPL is a non-profit which offers attending and training surgeons a tool for self and peer-evaluation. The goal of these evaluations is to create a metric stream of how the surgeon performs across a wide variety of procedures.

Accomplishments By Role

Engineering Manager / AWS Cloud Engineer

• Led the engineering team through development of several major product features and initiatives,
  • tech-debt repayment, and
  • architectural improvements
• Migrated AWS Amplify/AppSync/DynamoDB backend stack to Terraform/API Gateway v2/Turso SQLite
• Reduced most expensive response latencies from over 10 seconds on some queries down to as low as ~500ms
• Improved data quality by introducing constraints not available to the previous architecture
• Vastly improved developer workflows and feature delivery timelines by reducing complexity across the stack
• Consolidated metrics, logs, and alerts into Grafana for improved observability strategy
• Moved management of core AWS infrastructure into Infrastructure As Code (IaC) workflows with Terraform
• Implemented Google Workspaces directory as Single-Sign-On identity for AWS to
  • improve security,
  • reduce the need to manage / rotate credentials for privileged users / accounts
• Spearheaded documentation project of the org’s complex data model
• Mentored and taught the team how to use and develop with the above tools