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Work Experience

• Engineering Manager, Qwick

  Sep, 2024 - Present

  AWS S3, RDS, Zapier, Datadog, PostgreSQL, React, React Native, Snowflake, dbt, GraphQL, Gitlab

  • Managed and mentored a team of six engineers across feature development and DevOps, fostering collaboration and efficient delivery.

  • Took leadership of the data team and stepped in as Product Owner for the platform team, guiding strategic initiatives and priorities.

  • Cut AWS database costs by over 50% through performance optimizations and resource management.

  • Discovered and resolved critical security vulnerabilities, collaborating cross-functionally to implement rapid fixes.

  • Streamlined query migration, automating the conversion of 1,000+ Zapier queries into parameterized Postgres functions.

• VP of Engineering, Nikkl, Inc.

  Nov, 2022 - Sep, 20241 year 10 months

  C#, Azure, Python, Apache Airflow, Typescript, SQL Server, LLMs, TailwindCss, Open API, Azure DevOps

  • Managed a team of three nearshore engineers to develop a web portal for pricing and managing unicorn employee stock option deals.

  • Designed and implemented a data ingestion pipeline using a medallion architecture, reducing manual processes from hours to minutes.

  • Developed a data aggregation and inference algorithm to construct a comprehensive view of unicorn employee history, enabling more effective targeted outreach.

• Lead Software Engineer, Roofstock

  Jun, 2022 - Nov, 20225 months

  C#, Microservices, gRPC, Datadog, Jira, SQL Server, Snowflake, Kubernetes, Open API, Azure, Blob Storage, GraphQL

  • Led a team of four engineers in developing and maintaining the Supply microservice, the backbone system for data ingestion and management.

  • Collaborated with the Realtor.com team to design and implement APIs that showcase Roofstock homes, enhancing property visibility.

  • Partnered with the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) to develop and pilot a new industry-wide notification API, driving adoption across the real estate sector.

• Lead Software Engineer, Offerpad

  Jul, 2020 - May, 20221 year 10 months

  C#, Azure, Oracle Cloud, Microservices, Salesforce, SQL Server, Azure DevOps

  • Led a dedicated team focused on rapidly addressing the needs of internal stakeholders, ensuring swift and effective solutions.

  • Automated the renovation workflow and vendor bid process, significantly reducing the time-to-cash metric—a key driver of business success.

  • Developed automation solutions that eliminated the need for employees to work extra hours on weekends, improving work-life balance and efficiency.

  • Built a ranking engine to determine the best customer-product fit, empowering sales associates with data-driven recommendations.

• Director of Software Engineering, Offerpad

  Sep, 2019 - Jul, 202010 months

  Xamarin, Vue.js, C#, SQL Server, Azure Search

  • Led the Web and Mobile teams to unify the customer experience across both platforms, ensuring a seamless and consistent user journey.

  • Developed a customer portal that enabled users to track and manage the process of selling their home, improving transparency and engagement.

  • Redesigned the customer-facing mobile app to align with the internal mobile application, facilitating code reuse and knowledge sharing across teams.

• Senior Software Development Manager, Offerpad

  Sep, 2018 - May, 20223 years 8 months

  React Native, AppCenter, Azure DevOps, Sonar Cloud, Api Management

  • Scaled the department to over 40 team members, playing a key role in recruiting, mentoring, and team development.

  • Guided a team to achieve 60% code coverage and elevate testing practices, improving software quality and reliability.

  • Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and championed CI/CD best practices, driving efficiency and faster release cycles.

  • Led the development of mobile applications to enhance the home touring experience, improving customer engagement and satisfaction.

• Senior Software Engineer, Offerpad

  Mar, 2016 - Sep, 20182 years 6 months

  ASP.Net WebAPI, SQL Server, Azure Functions, React, React Native, QuickBooks, Twilio, DocuSign

  • Automated the buying, renovating, and selling process for homes while navigating complex business logic and workflows, enabling the company to purchase 600+ homes per month.

  • Developed a financial engine to forecast, analyze, and generate detailed cost breakdowns throughout the investment lifecycle, attracting $900M+ in external funding.

  • Collaborated with Zillow to integrate underwriting systems and automate the home-buying process for their Instant Offer program.

  • Designed and built a system to manage smart door locks, track and dispatch real estate agents, and enable tens of thousands of customers to instantly access and tour homes via Twilio's programmable SMS.

  • Enhanced the agent-free home touring experience by developing and launching Android and iOS apps using React Native: Android App: bit.ly/2LdsJ0y iOS App: apple.co/2Lbw6oS

  • Scaled the team from 3 developers to 5 fully functional teams with 25+ engineers, driving rapid company growth.

  • Optimized third-party API usage, reducing operational costs and saving the company thousands of dollars annually.

• Independent Contractor, Axosoft

  Jan, 2015 - Mar, 20161 year 2 months

  Zapier, Chrome Extensions, SQLite

  • Kicked off the implementation of the full-text search functionality in GitKraken, a cross-platform Git client built using Atom.io (GitKraken).

  • Developed a Zapier marketplace app enabling Axosoft’s project management suite to integrate with 500+ third-party products (Zapier Integration).

  • Built a private Zapier app for HubSpot, adding essential functionality to streamline the sales team’s workflow.

  • Enhanced an open-source Chrome extension by adding time-tracking support for Axosoft, contributing to Toggl Button (GitHub Repo).

• Software Engineer, Axosoft

  Jun, 2013 - Jan, 20151 year 7 months

  ASP.NET MVC/WebAPI, SQL Server, YUI, Zendesk, Stripe

  • Optimized built-in search functionality, boosting search performance by over 500% and significantly improving result accuracy.

  • Led a 7-month refactoring initiative, reducing the codebase by 40% and launching the largest rewrite in nearly a decade with zero critical bugs.

  • Scaled the development team from 2 to 14+ engineers, driving team growth and technical excellence.

  • Developed a Zendesk marketplace app, enabling seamless integration and data sharing with Axosoft (Zendesk Integration).

• Lead Developer, TransferBigFiles.com

  Jul, 2010 - Apr, 20132 years 9 months

  Backbone.js, AWS S3, Chrome Extensions, PayPal, Authorize.net

  • Founded and developed TransferBigFiles.com, a distributed, web-based file transfer service that evolved from a side project into a successful startup (TransferBigFiles).

  • Created the first iPhone app capable of sending full-resolution HD videos from the iPhone 4, reaching #4 in the iOS App Store's business category.

  • Built a recurring billing system integrating Authorize.NET, iPhone in-app purchases, and PayPal, automating customer payments.

  • Developed a Chrome extension that enabled virtually unlimited file attachments in Gmail by implementing a fault-tolerant, resumable, chunked upload protocol using the JavaScript File API (Chrome Extension).

• Software Engineer, Axosoft

  Jul, 2009 - Apr, 20109 months

  SQL Server, MongoDB, Eclipse Plugins, WFP

  • Led the development of Dashzen, a web-based dashboard system that aggregates data from 15+ popular web sources and presents it visually (Dashzen).

  • Built an Eclipse IDE plug-in that enabled developers to manage Axosoft defects and features alongside their code, improving workflow efficiency (Eclipse Plugin).

  • Designed and developed a drag-and-drop SCRUM planning board, streamlining release planning and backlog management.

  • Created iLoggrly, a real-time web analytics system leveraging a RESTful API and MongoDB to track visitor activity, sales, and key metrics across company websites and applications.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Arizona State University

  Aug, 2008 - Dec, 20084 months

  Lucene, Java

  • Designed and organized a three-phase semester project to evaluate students' ability to apply, analyze, and implement key information retrieval concepts.

  • Assessed student comprehension by grading project reports and homework, ensuring a strong understanding of course material.

• Graduate Research Assistant, Arizona State University

  May, 2006 - Aug, 20082 years 3 months

  • Developed a web-based mediator system for query processing over autonomous databases, introducing new relevance assessment methods, a precision/recall-based ranking mechanism, and support for join and aggregate queries.

  • Authored and presented research papers at highly respected database conferences, contributing to advancements in the field which garnered over 120 citations.

  • Co-authored grants and secured industrial and government funding to support future research initiatives.

• Intern, JDA Software

  May, 2003 - Sep, 20052 years 4 months

  C#, WinForms, Office APIs

  • Enhanced a .NET application used by the Sales department to generate Return on Investment (ROI) summaries for executive teams at customer companies.

  • Designed and implemented a SQL Server data warehouse consolidating financial data from three AS/400 servers, enabling their decommissioning and streamlining data management.

  • Collaborated with teams in the UK and Asia-Pacific to restore and integrate historical data from backup tapes into the data warehouse.

  • Organized and digitized the IT department's policy and procedure documents, creating a web-accessible index for improved accessibility.

  • Managed PeopleSoft employee training schedules, tracked course completion and requirements, and generated training budget summaries for executive steering committee presentations.

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