Gomi Deer

• Built and maintained the authn and authz platform services and infrastructure for a white-label life insurance application, handling the backend infrastructure for multiple major life insurance companies.

• Built and maintained scalable backend infrastructure supporting user provisioning and site security for enterprise-level commerce platforms that handle billions of monthly API requests.
• Developed and enhanced a Spring-based SDK, enabling third-party developers to integrate seamlessly with the Business Services Platform, reducing new project onboarding time.
• Migrated platform encryption from MD5 to AES-256 using Google Tink, achieving FedRAMP compliance and enhancing data security.
• Optimized CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, accelerating deployment frequency.

• Engineered real-time matching and ranking services optimized for low-latency performance, improving job matching and user experience for millions of job seekers.
• Collaborated on developing a custom fail-out timer system that gracefully terminated requests exceeding time limits while still returning usable results.
• Enhanced service stability and throughput through targeted performance tuning, load testing, and observability improvements, ensuring adherence to strict SLAs.
• Leveraged Indeed's internal analytics platform to design and build dashboards that monitored marketplace health and guided business and product decisions.

• Developed and integrated backend features for the MyADP web application, creating tools and services that enabled partner teams to more easily build and extend platform functionality.
• Implemented and maintained core backend services and the MyADP API proxy, improving reliability, performance, and internal developer experience.
• Built and maintained full-stack products not owned by a business service such as manager task delegation and two-factor auth.
• Built and maintained the front-end tools used by ADP support teams to handle user and organization provisioning.
• Served as Scrum Master, collaborating with product owners to plan sprints, prioritize tasks, and ensure timely delivery of high-impact features.

Over the course of my tenure as a Director at FWA I have led the direction of the A/V, DJ, Graphics, Photography, Outreach, Social, Studio, Advertising, Marketing, Community, and Online Communities teams.

Due to the wide range of hats I've worn in this role, I've broken down my responsibilities into a few key areas:

Marketing & Communication

• Oversee organization communication to both attendees and volunteer staff.
• Worked with the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau to expand outreach into Atlanta and develop marketing opportunities across the City of Atlanta, including at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
• Worked with furry community groups and community leaders to build furry community events inside and outside of FWA the event.
• Worked with and coached the executive leadership team on how to discuss major organizational changes to both our staff and attendees.

Showrunning & Talent Acquisition

• Help guide the team that signs FWA's special performers to pick performers that will resonate with as much of our community as possible.
• Created and run "Club FWA", FWA's third, smaller stage focused on providing space for community groups to put on their own shows and lineups.
• Worked with event and group leaders in our community to help facilitate spaces for them to engage with the community at our event.
• Created and run the "FWAREHOUSE", a warehouse rave in the FWA warehouse/office space that happens multiple times through the year with 150+ people in attendance.
• Responsible for the planning, writing, and execution of Opening and Closing ceremonies for 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024.
• Assisted in stage design for both FWA's Atrium and Club stages.

Internal Organization & Team Management

• Planned and implemented organization-wide short and long term goals for a 17,000+ attendee non-profit event that has raised over $350,000 for charity while I have been in this position.
• Established and developed multiple teams into independent departments that collaboratively create marketing content and engage with our community.

Technology & Web Management

• Built FWA's internal registration analytics and tracking using PostgreSQL and Redash to get insight into registration trends and attendee statistics to assist fellow leadership in making decisions.
• Built, own, and maintain FWA's website furryweekend.com. Built on Astro, GitCMS, and Cloudflare Pages, with backend services running on Cloudflare Workers. This new version has been proven to serve thousands of requests a second with load times under 2 seconds, while the old version would regularly crash on major announcements and releases.
• Created the marketing website for Club FWA.
• Created multiple promotional websites for the FWAREHOUSE.
• Created multiple ARG websites for both Club FWA and the FWAREHOUSE.

As the Studio Lead my responsibilities included overseeing the creation of narrative video content year-round for Furry Weekend Atlanta to market the event and promote the theme. At con I ran a team of 5+ volunteers to capture large events on photo and video.

During FWA's shutdown during COVID I was the production coordinator for Furry Weekend At-Home, the multi-day long streams we ran to raise money to ensure the event could continue.

FWA Studios Management

• Producer on multiple narrative videos shot to explore FWA's yearly theme.
• Produced and led a team shooting critical video content for FWA's special guest shows.
• Photographer for FWA's special guest shows.

Furry Weekend At-Home Production Coordinator

• Coordinated a team of 10+ volunteers both in-person and remote to produce a multi-day livestream event.
• Managed and planned production schedule, gear, and talent.
• Created sets for different segments of the show.
• Responsible for lighting and camera work for our live segments.
• Handled online communication and Twitch moderation.