Summary
A seasoned leader and developer with a proven record of delivering value through contributions to front-end, back-end, and infrastructure-as-code
Experience
Engineering Lead
Aha! Labs
April 2015 - Present
- Migrated all production services to AWS within four months of joining the team
- Refactored single-instance to multi-pod architecture to ensure unlimited scalability
- Led the Platform team by conducting code reviews, employee performance reviews, and weekly 1-1s
- Wrote speed-critical network services (99% RT < 700µs)
- Actively participated in hiring engineering team
- Developed rich front-end components using ReactJS
Senior Software Engineer
CapLinked
January 2012 - April 2015
- Migrated infrastructure to AWS using custom auto-scaling AMIs to provide burst compute capacity
- Wrote core application functionality, document management, and document conversion pipelines
- Continuously monitored and optimized for performance
- Provided technical oversight for the team
Application Developer
JP Morgan Chase
March 2011 - December 2011
- Developed features to help drive audit compliance for the entire retail line of business
- Optimized nightly ETL process (6 hour job reduced to 12 minutes)
- Upgraded to modern Rails and Ruby versions
Software Developer
InsuranceAgents.com
August 2009 - March 2011
- Rebuilt user portal in Ruby on Rails and modern JS
- Designed and built an add-on product to open up new revenue stream
- Trialed genetic algorithm to optimize bidding for profitability
Education
Bachelors - Computer Information Sciences
The Ohio State University
2011
- Intern with the OSU Network Security Team
- Member of the Reusable Software Research Group
- Teacher's Assistant for software engineering courses