Focused on building and growing high performance tech cultures and systems. Leadership values: Healthy and Direct Communication > Politics Transparency > Secrecy Autonomy of Teams > Centralized Control Long-term > Short-term Inclusive/Diverse teams > Homogenous teams Homogenous technology > Diversity of...

2024 — NowGoodwinPrincipal Backend Engineer

2024 — Now

2022 — NowMultipleSenior Software Engineer (Contract work)

2022 — Now

Multiple Projects.

Helped Luddex rebuild an AI finance platform for trading cards

Multiple engagements with Station Casinos for architecture work on their casino systems

2022 — 2022Shake ShackEngineering Lead

2022 — 2022

New York, New York, United States

Responsible for roughly 80-90 people across 4 engineering teams and 3 disciplines (Front end/Mobile, Backend, DevSecOps)

Intake and prioritization of work. Help the team gain clarity on technical requirements.

Liaison with Support and Feature Teams to resolve inter-team dependencies ( 4 different feature teams, 1 support team and of course his/her RUN Team)

Partner with the Release Manager to decide on the appropriate release plan. Augment the Release Manager working with the different PMs for PODs for all the planned & adhoc releases

Plan the appropriate work size for the DevSecOps teammates within RUN team to improve the CI/CD, monitoring , alerting, security, scalability improvement.

Evaluate the technical dependencies between the different tech stacks to orchestrate and plan the changes.

Responsible for upkeep of the architecture and technical documentation

Review code, design and evaluate risk of specific implementation approaches

2020 — 2022LoopServerless Software Engineer

2020 — 2022

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Built the integration platform that enabled 6 million dollars of revenue for the company, which translated to 50 million on our Series B valuation

The same integration platform set a stability record for only having 1 incident across a 13 month span and that incident did not impact customers

Lead Integration Onboarding and Integration Support teams

Leading an evolution from a legacy monolith PHP architecture to a more scalable and secure NodeJS Serverless architecture through a combination of architecture work and mentorship

Consult as a sales engineer on calls with billion dollar clients

Lead incident response team for live bugs in production

Create educational videos and tutorials around new tech and processes for the team

Tech list:

Serverless Framework, AWS Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, MongoDB Atlas, NodeJS

2020 — 2020byte®Lead Software Engineer (NodeJS Backend)

2020 — 2020

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Lead project teams of up to 4 developers under tight deadlines

Run technical interviews and onboard new engineers who work in the backend team.

Architect 70%+ of new features in the backend, working across departments, eliciting requirements, writing stories, performing QA tasks, and advising on releases to production

Tech Used: NodeJS, TypeScript, Express, Jest, Mongoose,

Cloud Services: Azure App Insights, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Pipelines, Azure Blob Storage, Azure EventGrid, Azure App Services

3rd party platforms: Salesforce (Webhooks, Apex code, JSForce integrations, custom Sobjects), Shopify Plus (webhook integrations, Shopify Admin API), Delighted (NPS survey automation), MailChimp (Marketing and Transaction emails)