As one of the early engineers of the company, I was one of the two engineers that worked on our first version of the peer feedback system that allowed students to provide feedback to on another on assignments they did.
I'm now part of the infrastructure team, working with other brilliant engineers to build capabilities that enable new features, ensuring site performance and reliability, and the curation of our service-oriented architecture.
Infrastructure is a small team, so I have a pretty wide variety of roles / projects:
* Cassandra: I'm largely in-charge of Cassandra at Coursera, managing both our Cassandra deployment, as well as providing usage guidance to other developers. Cours...