DRINKS is the online leader in adult beverage, reinventing wine buying for the 21st century. Through its pioneering Wine as a Service (WaaS) platform and Direct to Consumer (DTC) properties, DRINKS brings thousands of award-winning wines safely and conveniently to millions of customers across the United States in 1-2 days.DRINKS created a new way to build a direct relationship with consumers by opening up the beverage alcohol category for online shopping. The company’s WaaS platform allows any company or brand to launch its own ship-to-home wine program quickly and easily, enabling our partners — including Fortune 20 and industry-leading digital marketers — to reach 96% of adults in the U.S. The company’s DTC division, featuring storefronts Wine Insiders and Martha Stewart Wine Co., is the nation’s largest online wine marketplace by volume.DRINKS powers this unique ecosystem with its patented enterprise technology, including the ability to customize merchandising and deliver unique recommendations and messaging for each shopper.We are proud to work with top influencers and tastemakers coupled with high-quality wine producers from around the world. DRINKS’ data-driven wine sourcing engine delivers exceptional unit economics for WaaS partners, with private label packaging designs informed by machine learning and optimized for online consumer appeal.Forbes named DRINKS America’s 18th best startup employer in 2020.

- Collaborated with a team at a micropublisher to quickly pivot their Typescript React app for the COVID-19 pandemic.- Decreased micropublisher’s main publish feed load time by 66% for users visiting the site.- Led a small Agile development team to create clean and intuitive designs on a Rails platform.- Helped mobile game studio troubleshoot and implement a node.js backend to communicate with a firebase storage.

- Led a class of individuals (15-20) of varying skill levels both in the class and in a working kitchen.- Facilitated communications between students and myself under high pressure environment.- Planned and followed through with actions as a team to meet the client expectation.