Software Engineer II
PAR Technology
- Designed and developed scalable backend services by transitioning a high-traffic REST API from Ruby on Rails to a Go-based application, utilizing Gin, google/wire for DI, gRPC, and GitHub Actions to implement robust CI/CD pipelines.
- Re-architected a core notification service to store messages dynamically, significantly optimizing data management and reducing AWS RDS storage utilization.
- Increased engineering velocity by leveraging LLM-powered tools such as Copilot and Claude Code for unit test generation, code validation, and review acceleration.
- Designed a specialized error handling package to be integrated across various application and domain layers.
- Built real-time alerting pipeline (Airbrake → Slack), significantly reducing mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond to production incidents.
- Integrated OpenTelemetry for monitoring SQL queries and API metrics, facilitating the identification of slow queries and API endpoint latency over New Relic.