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Alistair B.
Senior Backend Engineer at Spotify
11.3
Years of Experience
Education
cornell university, cornell university
Companies
spotify, amazon, wayfair, wayfair, wayfair, wayfair, cornell university, cornell information technologies
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Experience
2020 - Present
spotify
Senior Backend Engineer
2017 - 2020
amazon
Software Development Engineer - Alexa Information
2016 - 2017
wayfair
Senior Software Engineer - Warehouse Management Systems
- Led the team dedicated to the scalability of warehousing systems in preparation for 10x expansion of Wayfair fulfillment network - Built and maintained new messaging pipeline systems to process more than 100,000 daily warehouse events using Apache Kafka and Storm - Worked with teams across engineering and business to develop system improvements to support continued Wayfair 40-50% YOY growth, including working with Order Processing engineering teams to restructure the order processing systems PHP, SQL Server, Java, Storm, Kafka Show less
2015 - 2016
wayfair
Senior Software Engineer - CastleGate Fulfillment
- Managed and mentored the software development team for CastleGate - Oversaw growth of CastleGate platform from inception to over 50% of the orders fulfilled by Wayfair fulfillment network (20% of Wayfair business at peak) - Worked cross functionally with other engineering and operations teams to support new Wayfair business initiatives, notably deeper integration with stock forecasting suites (to optimize inventory purchases) and new tools to promote/move long-lived inventory (to optimize warehousing space) - Onboarded new engineers across Wayfair engineering teaching as part of Wayfair’s New Hire Orientation Show less
2013 - 2015
wayfair
Software Engineer - CastleGate Fulfillment
- Part of the inaugural team that built CastleGate, Wayfair’s Third Party Logistics platform, a new business initiative to support/fund future growth of warehousing network - Collaborated with operations and business teams to design the underlying infrastructure, build user components, and launch the CastleGate platform - Worked with participating suppliers to drive building their desired new components and processes from a 3PL.
2012 - 2013
wayfair
Software Engineer I - Demand Generation
- Worked on the advertising and marketing systems for Wayfair, including batch emails, search advertising cost reporting, and product listing updates. - Built and maintained new systems in PHP & SQL to process downloading and categorizing over 100 daily search ad click/viewing analytics reports (containing > 100,000 search events) for prioritization of Wayfair’s search advertising campaigns - Managed existing systems that uploaded product listings to various retail partners, accounting for over 20% of Wayfair’s orders Show less
2011 - 2012
cornell university
Teaching Assistant: Web Design
Head TA for Introductory and Intermediate Web Design courses at Cornell
2009 - 2011
cornell information technologies
HelpDesk Supervisor
Experience
21 Skills
apache
Backend
css
human computer interaction
java
Java
javascript
jquery
Kafka
LESS
php
PHP
programming
python
scalability
Software Engineer
sql
SQL
sql server
web design
xhtml
Education
2011 - 2012
cornell university
Master of Professional Studies
Information Science
2007 - 2011
cornell university
BS
Information Science