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        - Mentored entry and mid-level engineers on stability, clean code, and distributed systems.
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        - Recovered 98% of data lost in critical incident via coordinating cross team efforts and dissecting native database operation logs.
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        - Developed and owned highly available and reliable data storage and operational tooling.
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        - Genericized AWS asset management tooling ahead of company-wide mass migration initiative.
        - Championed disaster recovery by supporting training runs with documentation, tools, and live support across teams and enforced continuous compliance for 17 database clusters with monitoring and alerting.
        - Lent expertise owning MongoDB across teams by advising on configuration and data models and genericizing disaster recovery tooling for 21 teams.
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        - Automated no-downtime system patching for 30 services and 25 database clusters by creating a modular and testable scripting framework.
        - Raised backend service's availability to 99.99% and reduced hardware costs by 40% by selecting, training team on, and live migrating to a different datastore.
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