Hi,
I'm Taki and I develop software. I am currently working on payments at Sotheby's. I previously worked on providing our customer's with instant shipping quotes.
Experience
Sotheby's
Nov 2020 - Present
  • Replaced Adyen with Stripe as our payment service provider in our Marketplace checkout.
  • Implemented an event based architecture for capturing payments and informing other services of payment status.
  • Built a shipping service which integrates with multiple logistics providers to provide our customers with instant quotes. This reduced the average time to checkout in our auction service for shipped goods by 50%.
  • Created a fulfillment service for automatically booking shipments once properties are released.
  • Adaptly (acquired by Accenture)
    Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
  • Built a robust ad scheduling system across 4 social media APIs, written in Clojure. The goal was to consolidate our user's efforts in ad deployment, the result was reduced deployment frequency by 80%.
  • Extended notification system to notify users when campaigns overspend, across all our social media APIs.
  • Constructed a reliable, user-friendly batched notification system for ad scheduling.
  • Optimized our ad campaign management table. Led to an average of 50% decrease in load times.
  • Education
    University of North Carolina
    Chapel Hill, NC
    Bachelor of Science, Mathematics
    Skills
    Golang, Postgres, Javascript, Clojure, React
    Contact
    Email: koutst@gmail.com