Experience
2015 — Now
2015 — Now
San Francisco Bay Area
• Built out the data science team at Hired.
• Worked with team to make key hires + talent acquisitions to build up team strength.
• Designed initial models for automatically screening resumes -- initial models resulted in large increase in overall company revenue.
• Designed and implemented data science experimentation platform at Hired. This platform provided team with the ability to rapidly build, test and deploy new predictive models.
2013 — Now
2013 — Now
• Daily work on Hired's Ruby on Rails application
• Screening new engineering hires
• Mentoring new hires to bring them up to speed on Hired's codebase, development processes and practices
2012 — 2013
2012 — 2013
Emeryville CA
Provided direction and support for company in eliminating 7 years of tech debt and created a technical path and vision for moving company's development from unscalable coldfusion solution to python solution based on industry best practices and open source technologies.
Helped craft technical and functional vision for new products and services released by company.
Got initial company devops infrastructure built using chef and linux. This allowed the company to move from taking weeks to build out bug-filled production and development systems to taking about 3 mins for perfectly formatted deploys and buildouts of consistent dev boxes. Probably saved hundreds (maybe thousands) of dev and qa hours, simplified / cut down on errors and bugs in deployment process and provided routes to bring up extra qa and staging environments when needed.
Introduced modern as3 and framework-based python development toolchains and technologies -- helped mentor engineers in best practices when designing actionscript and python applications. Resulted in refactors of several high-profile projects which made the projects more stable and more importantly MUCH more maintainable by the dev team.
AM was busy integrating 3rd party systems into their existing infrastructure when I arrived. They were doing it via direct API calls. I helped introduce message queueing (via Rabbit) as a more flexible/scalable approach to having an architecture with multiple independent systems interacting with one-another.
2008 — 2012
2008 — 2012
Built and grew several android phone applications -- Poet's Corner, Speaking Chinese Flashcards, iTazer for Android
Helped companies trying to build Flex, Flash and AIR applications with training, architectural support and coding.
Taught classes on development using Flex, Android and Rails.
Clients have included design houses in San Francisco, VMWare, Cisco, TurnHere & Teak Motion Visuals - examples of my work are available on my web site.
2007 — 2008
2007 — 2008
Berkeley CA
Designed + developed real-time interactive web conferencing solution built on top of the Flash player.
Education
University of Washington