Grayson K.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Cobalt

   Mar 2022 — Present

   Maintained and enhanced the public API for allowing clients to programmatically interact with our SaaS platform (Kotlin, Webflux, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes)* Worked on improving performance of the core of the platform (Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Kubernetes)* Worked on various integrations for our platform: Jira Cloud, Jira Data Center, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Workato * Lead project for adding webhook functionality to the platform * Defined the future of event driven architecture within the engineering org by writing a series of Architectural Decision Records and socializing them to gain buy-in * Worked on features in the UI using React and Redux * Met with customers to understand their integration needs and pain-points. Plan work based on these discussions * Handled customer support escalations for integration issues. I won an award for being the customer success MVP one month due to nominations from CSMs and clients * Improved the developer experience of writing integration tests for the public API. Expand the scope of our integration testing strategy to ensure that the API contract communicated to clients is adhere\'d to by the public API * Lead project for performance and load-testing our Jira Data Center plugin in AWS to get the plugin certified for Jira Data Center * Maintained API documentation * Co-developed the Kotlin@Cobalt course for sharing Kotlin knowledge and best practices throughout the engineering org * Conducted technical interviews * Acted as a team scrum-master (during my shift in the rotating role)