2018 — Now
The work through Knucks has been exciting and has been a great journey to understand all that’s required to operate a business as a sole proprietor. I’ve done work for numerous clients on tight deadlines and exceedingly high expectations. I’ve also built a number of side businesses to understand more thoroughly aspects of businesses I wasn't well versed with.
Some highlights include:
● Protective life insurance quoting engine and API
● SOFware LLC
● AirNoise LLC
● Prota Ventures
● Marketing site for Juniper Labs (acquired)
● Follow on work for Himaxwell
Remote
My time at Prota has consisted of helping to build contract applications for a number of Fortune 100 clients including Johnson and Johnson, Exelon Energy and CitiGroup as well as a contributing role on a number of internal startups. We were able to release a React Native application to Play and Apple store, named EcoCred in around a month and a half.
Here are some highlights:
● Frontend for Citi Sumit student loan
● Rails API and React/Redux SPA frontend for Somn (Johnson and
Johnson partner)
● Rails API and React/Redux frontend for internal application
Stakeout (tracking cryptocurrency)
● Rails API and React/Redux frontend for Solve Vendors (job board)
● React/Redux Frontend redesign of OZFYI (opportunity zones
database)
● Ecocred React Native application for Exelon Energy company
including iOS and Android app deployed to Play and App Store with modifications to Typescript Node API
2017 — 2018
Greater Denver Area
Worked on SAAS platform as the first full-time engineer, responsible for helping define and implement requirements, mentor engineering hires, work with remote engineers, as well as normal startup duties. Maintained a whatever-it-takes attitude to meeting deadlines with minimal engineering support. Helped the company through 2 rounds of funding and left the company at 25 employees, where they now sit at 130 including brokers.
Helped support the CTO with engineering phone screens and interviews
Helped develop internal operations and development workflows for customer success, business intelligence and other internal tooling.
Some highlights include:
● Implement a scalable architecture that is still in use at the company
● Implement feature functionality including but not limited to equifax worknumber, filethis, wit.ai chatbot, internal chat with multiple channels, connected applications, debugging 1003 loan application, LendingQB initial integration, Matic initial integration, wrappers for external integrations, increase unit test coverage exponentially among other things.
2016 — 2017
Greater Denver Area
2015 — 2016
Oceanside, CA
Was brought onboard KBS alongside 5 other individuals to help tech enable a stagnant business. We were able to implement some extremely progressive technology solutions which aided in field staff improvements which ultimately led to a significantly large exit (400MM+) from equity partners.
Some of the work highlights include:
● Designed, architechted & implemented core functionality with requirements defined by CIO and Director of Technology
● Company was later acquired for a few hundred million Helped develop the REST API with beautifully abstracted base controllers and presenter layer
● Implemented React upon initial release and related libraries for complex front-end user interface components (audits, customer service cases, employee confirmation, termination, staff, locations)
● Onboarding application with patented I9 verification integration (Rails engine)
● Implemented existing audit form builder with open source libraries saving over 500K a year in licensing fees
● Helped with backend engineer candidate phone screening Provide technical direction and explanation when required Setup development workflow with third party services (pivotal tracker, github, circleci, slack, etc)
● Maintained a startup philosophy (move fast) in a large corporation