San Francisco Bay Area
As a founding engineer, I helped design and build core services to support the company’s flagship products from the ground up
As project lead, served as engineering representative working with Product and Design teams from requirements gathering, to solution ideation, to implementation and release
Refactored the core Automated Student Placement Service improving its speed by more than 10x contributing to an increase in customer retention and sales
Defined service boundaries between Abl’s Data Science platform and core application services. Additionally, designed and built an abstracted API by leveraging dynamic Active Record models for the relevant services allowing the Frontend and Data Science teams to iterate on visualizations with minimal friction
Built ETL services to support bidirectional data transfers between Abl and external data sources while ensuring data integrity
Supported Data Science work by ensuring data consistency and hygiene
Routinely performed security and performance critical library and framework upgrades
Introduced, advocated for, and championed the team’s technical spec and documentation processes
Contributed to the design of the company interview process for Software Engineers, Designer and
Data Scientists
2014 — 2016
Built the Ripple enterprise (Ripple Connect) payment processing and pre-transaction messaging orchestration service in Node.js
Designed, built and owned load simulation software for benchmarking and revealing complex bugs throughout the Connect stack
Identified and fixed bottlenecks using Linux Perf and Flamecharts to improve Transactions Per Second
Contributed to gatewayd, Ripple’s open-source gateway software and built a Bitcoin bridge plug-in
Collaborated across the engineering team on code reviews to ensure work was clean, DRY and modular
Wrote documentation, unit and integration tests
Built deployment and configuration tools using Ansible and Bash
Followed Agile Software Development methodologies
2012 — 2014
San Francisco Bay Area
Shipped 5 high-traffic localized sites supporting 12 languages, 1.5 MM monthly unique visitors
Developed and owned Nitro’s marketing oriented client-side JavaScript library
Integrated third-party e-commerce (Cleverbridge) and support (Zendesk) APIs
Mentored junior team members
2012 — 2012
Collaborated with data scientists and business analysts to flesh out specs prior to development
Created wireframes from user stories and functional requirements
Developed dashboards to visualize large amounts of Digital TV data to analyze audience viewing patterns using Google Charts JavaScript API
Clients: EMC (Remote), Time Warner Cable (On-site)
Education
Art Institute of Pittsburgh