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Work Experience

• Founding Staff Engineer, Pointhound

  Apr, 2024 - Present

  • Built company engineering foundation from ground up, establishing best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment.

  • Implemented comprehensive CI/CD pipeline with end-to-end testing and automated deployments.

  • Unified infrastructure architecture across all services with monitoring and observability solutions.

  • Designed and built AI-powered personalized email system delivering curated flight deals to customers.

  • Trained machine learning models on flight deal data to identify and score high-value opportunities.

  • Developed real-time flight alert system with SMS notifications for user-customized deal criteria.

  • Built resilient web scrapers bypassing security measures to collect real-time flight deal data.

  • Implemented comprehensive security measures to protect product from malicious scraping and abuse.

• Staff Software Engineer, SeatGeek

  Sep, 2022 - Apr, 20241 year 7 months

  • Led Infrastructure Web team, managing engineers and coordinating cross-functional initiatives.

  • Spearheaded internationalization initiative, enabling SeatGeek website expansion into global markets.

  • Led accessibility compliance project, ensuring website met A11y standards and WCAG guidelines.

  • Collaborated with Lead Designer to architect and implement Uniform design system, unifying web development standards.

  • Coordinated cross-company initiatives improving Core Web Vitals, reducing page load times and enhancing user experience.

  • Drove API performance optimization efforts, reducing latency and improving overall system responsiveness.

  • Established metrics and monitoring for critical funnel performance tracking.

• Senior Staff Software Engineer, Vesta Home (acquired Feather)

  Oct, 2021 - Sep, 202211 months

  • Enhanced CI/CD pipeline significantly improving developer experience and deployment velocity.

  • Architected cloud environment provisioning system providing isolated stacks for each developer.

  • Authored RFC and led migration from legacy ORM to modern development workflow.

  • Planned and executed complete database migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL with zero downtime.

  • Established outage management and triage processes with automated alerting and on-call rotation.

  • Introduced Go language to TypeScript-focused team with comprehensive RFC and prototype.

  • Provided strategic technical guidance across all teams, aligning execution with product vision.

  • Led code review forums establishing team standards and best practices.

  • Mentored engineers on architecture design and career development.

• Lead Operations Engineer, Feather Home

  Oct, 2019 - Oct, 20212 years

  • Implemented comprehensive role-based access control system across all user types.

  • Deployed monitoring, observability, and alerting infrastructure for production systems.

  • Established security best practices for engineering team and company-wide operations.

  • Migrated legacy infrastructure to Infrastructure as Code running on AWS Fargate ECS.

  • Built mobile application for warehouse operations enabling efficient inventory management.

  • Implemented worker queue infrastructure with caching layer for improved performance.

  • Won three consecutive company hackathons with innovative solutions.

  • Migrated CI services achieving 4x improvement in build and deployment times.

  • Improved team velocity through process optimization and rapid iteration cycles.

  • Designed fair technical assessment process for engineering candidates.

  • Integrated with Third Party Logistics providers enabling nationwide market expansion.

  • Led GraphQL adoption initiative with code generation and improved developer workflow.

  • Mentored team members through end-to-end project ownership and stakeholder engagement.

• Platform Manager, Life Biosciences

  Jun, 2018 - Oct, 20191 year 4 months

  • Successfully integrated Lua Technologies engineering team following acquisition.

  • Delivered weekly technical presentations, workshops, and meetups while managing engineering team.

  • Scaled platform horizontally achieving 1000x increase in concurrent user capacity.

  • Defined product vision and technical roadmap for Life Biosciences platform.

  • Established engineering best practices ensuring consistent and reliable development workflow.

  • Automated laboratory workflows including PK Analysis from Mass Specs and cell plate readings using ETL pipelines.

  • Audited laboratory software vendors and established AI partnerships including Berg in Boston.

  • Migrated decade-old codebase from Ruby to Elixir and jQuery to React, modernizing platform for future development.

• Platform Manager, Lua Technologies

  Oct, 2016 - Jun, 20181 year 8 months

  • Automated CI workflow for Electron desktop, frontend, and backend applications.

  • Represented company at conferences advancing technology goals and team education.

  • Prototyped React Native implementation assessing mobile development opportunities.

  • Built CLI tools enhancing developer operations and engineering practices.

  • Containerized application infrastructure enabling seamless CI and Kubernetes integration.

  • Developed HIPAA-compliant video streaming single page application with mobile support.

  • Integrated with Hospital Electronic Medical Records systems enabling secure communication for healthcare providers.

• Lead Web Developer, Lua Technologies

  Jan, 2014 - Oct, 20162 years 9 months

  • Upgraded Backbone and Marionette framework with comprehensive Jasmine test coverage.

  • Migrated five single page applications to React with Redux state management.

  • Resolved memory leaks and performance bottlenecks through systematic profiling.

  • Implemented full-text search using ElasticSearch API.

  • Optimized image processing with Web Workers for improved performance.

  • Redesigned admin tools with enhanced user experience.

  • Established Continuous Integration with Travis and Jenkins including automated testing and code coverage.

  • Built Node stack with Webpack and Mocha delivering more reliable builds and fewer production bugs.

  • Implemented source maps and error tracking with Sentry for production debugging.

  • Created Phoenix and React platform for external messaging between doctors and hospice care workers.

• Full Stack Engineer, Lua Technologies

  Jan, 2013 - Jan, 20141 year

  • Built API for avatar and attachment processing including resize, crop, and upload functionality.

  • Created and released BoxView.rb open source library for BoxView API integration.

  • Implemented subscription service with Stripe payment processing and PDF receipt generation.

  • Deployed Primus Node.js server for WebSocket push notifications.

  • Created Vagrant and Ansible build tools for consistent development environments.

  • Migrated Android project to Gradle and Android Studio.

  • Established Android app deployment process.

  • Implemented secure message and media upload via S3.

  • Built messaging system for departments and individuals with file attachment support.

• Self Employed, Vinnymac LLC

  Jan, 2004 - Jan, 20106 years

  • Created and maintained network of popular gaming websites and forums.

  • Scaled daily active users from 100k to 250k through optimization and community building.

  • Generated over $50k in annual revenue.

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