AI Consulting, SaaS Consulting, Startup Consulting, Fullstack Engineering and MVPs

Consulting for: Gen AI, Open AI, Gemma, Llama, Mistral, AI Chatbots, LangChain, Typescript, Fullstack Engineer, Fractional CTO, Head of Engineering, Interview Audits.

We help founders and startups go from Seed to Series A without taking millions in equity & wasting weeks in interviews. https://calciumlab.com/. Software consulting agency offering: Fractional CTO and Fullstack Engineer roles

Key technologies and skills: React, NextJS, Node.js, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Docker, k8s, GraphQL, Ubuntu Linux, RESTful micro-service API development, GraphQL, SQLite, Swagger, full stack applications, front-end development best practicies (components, testing, CSS pre-processors), computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, automated testing, object-oriented programming, performance complexity, and computer architecture on software performance, DB types (relational, key/value, document), cloud CI/CD, DB schema design and migrations in PostreSQL and NoSQL databases, enterprise level practices in sync vs async, Agile development methodology, version control and git workflows including Github actions, knowledge of public cloud with Azure, GCP, AWS, deployment with container technologies like Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes, Mobile friendly development, Computer Science principles, strong interpersonal and communication skills with ability to explain and discuss technical concepts and methodologies with colleagues and clients from other disciplines, and appreciation for UI/UX analytics and engagement.

Managed: 6 Direct Reports. 12 Teams. 104 Total Headcount. 8 Figure Budget

Key wins: acted as interim VP of Engineering for 5 months & contributed as strategic decisionmaker on multiple 8 figure confidential product investments including cloud strategy & digital transformation, saved 5 figures in costs by leveraging open source, led & grew Monthly Tech Culture Community of Practice to 100s in the organization, kick started Data Driven performance evaluation, Managed 5 contractor/vendor relationships, reinvented interview tooling & process, pioneered quarterly goals/gantt, established visibility for Azure DevOps metrics, part of XLT. Key Technologies: Cloud, GCP, AWS, C# .Net Core, React, React Native, k8s, docker, Azure DevOps, Github, Gitlab

Founding Engineer (Employee #1)

Fullstack Engineering with Node.js, TypeScript, Angular, PostgresQL, AWS RDS, SQL, web sockets, .NET Core entity framework, Docker, k8s, Kubernetes

Seed to Series B+

Skillsets across many traditional roles: senior software development, hiring manager, head of tech, engineering manager, contractor management, product owner, project manager, scrum master, devops engineer, employee experience, sales development

2019-2020: As Employee #1 (Engineering) and first technical partner I worked on a little of everything to help start several aspects of the business and especially its technology arm. I drove or participated in: hiring strategy, technical architecture, initial prototyping, software development operations, managing our process, directing contractors, Product Ownership, Scrum process, fostering company values + remote culture, and vetting security considerations.

2020+: On a growing team I've worked as our primary scrum master and one of several senior backend developers. We continue to empower our developers to own and lead many aspects of software development + the company from feature refinement to delivery which I enjoy today

Notable contributions at varying levels to: - Our coding languages and overall architecture (Angular, .NET, AWS, Postgres) - Mosaic's first ERP + CRM integration - Our initial AWS infrastructure (servers+databases+deployments) - Established source control + code reviews + Jira integration best practices - Software features: - User sign up and sign in and customer onboarding - TFA - Sync data mapping and normalization - Account categorization and smart suggestion - Data history + journals - Masquerading via API - Blocklisting - Standard objects mapping ontology - Metrics - Tables upload/download - Database replication + propagation in multiple environments - One button deployment scripts - One button local database scripts - Custom filtering on metrics - Dynamic Metric Builder

Independent Consultant / Web Developer

As a sole proprietor, developed client relationships, established rates and handled billing/invoices.

Key project: Built prototype for an app called Screenclip.com to replace Clipular.com

Stack:

Frontend (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS)

Backend: NodeJS

Cloud: Google Firebase (Firebase Auth, Firebase Firestore, Firebase Hosting, Firebase Functions, Google Cloud, NoSQL, GCP)

(SEI, SEII, SEIII)

API Platform Team.

* Built REST API replacements and facades over existing SOAP services for accounts, cart, and orders to improve interface design and performance.

* Developed features for an API Proxy written in NodeJS, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Linux Servers, CentOS, Cloud, Swagger API

* Led a research project to choose how our microservices should be incorporated into our proxy itself

* Created a replacement proxy written in Java, Golang, and Vert.x with superior performance

* Worked on a prototype for distributed microservices using public cloud HTML CSS Angular, AngularJS, Django, Python, Flask, SQL MySQL, Redis, Docker, and Docker Compose

* Sole team member to deliver a talk at TechFest 2016, GoDaddy's annual employee technical conference

* Served as part of Tech Core, an interviewing team whose goal was to "raise the bar" of interviewing across the compan