Advising on all things product/engineering

Led product and engineering for our mobile app used by >15,000 senior members of the entertainment and media world to network across creative industries. Managed a team of 5, then built the core b2b offering from the ground up.

• Portrait Pro augments private talent networks and allows creative teams to search with natural language and nuanced multi-media references to find talent matches for their project needs (currently in private beta).

Your classic ground-up, blank-page software engineering at a pre-seed fintech startup, ranging from terraforming initial infra to react components in the beta app, plus imagining the product, making up systems, and ultimately realizing that the thing I want to do next is build a team.

Maintained the core infrastructure services responsible for encryption key management (EKM) and international data residency. Touched so many buzzwords on this team; wrote Go and Terraform for the first time, learned about monitoring infra (prometheus), collaborated with our memcache team, tried lambdas, went from manually scaling up EC2 instances by clicking a "moar servers" button to letting Kubernetes do that for us. Spent many a late night on call with Dublin and Australia in the meantime. A highly challenging, technically rich, ultimately lonely experience; the reason I stayed so long, and the reason I left.

• Top Project: Rebuilt the EKM service for the US government using our in-house platform-as-a-service