Yuri Debrekht

Experience

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  AMonogram Art

  Jun 2018 - Mar 2020

  Software Development Engineer

  Implemented a MySQL and Java RESTful API Back End with Datasource Pooling, Full Text Search, Stored Procedures and Batch Updates to increase performance 10-fold.• Scaled the platform to reliably serve thousands of users simultaneously while performing DevOps and Design duties by developing an internal tool to assist in automating order fulfillment and production and ensuring reliability at all times.• The Website, built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, features Employee access to metadata and provides a portal for adding and updating entries manually or through XML parsing, capable of adding 100k new entries in under a minute.• Performed DevOps and Design duties by developing an internal tool to assist in automating order fulfillment and production, and ensuring reliability at all times. Show less

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  UC Irvine

  Nov 2018 - Mar 2020

  Machine Learning Engineer

  Project in collaboration with IBM Watson on clusters of drones that communicate reliably, cooperate, and make group decisions.• Improved knowledge of edge computing on autonomous vehicles with a series of presentations, researching ERA, and following a 3-month plan by adding to Watson’s existing code base to incorporate into research.• Performed Data Analysis and Analytics on Drone Surveillance while working with Statistics on Big Data to merge observations between autonomous vehicles and train a Machine Learning model to predict inconsistencies in throughput and latency between autonomous vehicles. Show less

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  Meredith Corporation

  Sept 2020 - Jun 2021

  Software Engineer II

  Planned, Designed, Developed, Tested, Reviewed, Automated, Documented, and Deployed various microservices through AWS Serverless Application Model, resulting in 60% cheaper on average execution costs per lambda.• Made drastic changes to the React Native application that dramatically improved user experience while reducing number of requests performed to one third, cutting costs while optimizing for throughput, which generated revenue for the company.• Designed and developed entire features on the platform, in some cases generating revenue while in other cases saving time by automating key tasks, streamlining the process at hand. Show less

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  Ally

  Jun 2021 - Apr 2022

  Senior Software Developer

  Actively participated in the architectural planning and design of an Intelligent Capture solution for document classification and extraction, spun up the development environment, and contributed significantly to the project’s ongoing success, generating revenue for the business.• Trained and supported five engineers in team building process, assisting with acclimation to new technologies, providing support in roadblocks, and unblocking, while continuing to complete assigned stories.• Learned Terraform, obtained a certification from Hashicorp, and utilized it to deploy a vast array of resources spanning many AWS services to spin up efficient architectural solutions across environments both in the cloud and on-prem. Show less

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  Google

  Mar 2022 - Apr 2023

  Software Engineer III

  Contributed significantly to a machine learning powered business intelligence platform capable of processing billions of data points across thousands of dimensions and metrics on a team within the Customer Engagement division of the Google Ads umbrella.• Assisted in the design and implementation of an advanced query cacheing solution for the BI Platform that could predict the cacheability of a query and cache the appropriate results, resulting in 68% better query performance overall.• Learned and integrated countless internal Google tools, collaborated with peers both on team and across the organization, and contributed to community by onboarding Nooglers regularly as a GTI cohort manager. Show less