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Morgan Hill, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

Drove purpose, vision, strategy and architecture of the web platform organization.

Crypto / blockchain R&D focused on the Solana ecosystem. With two friends, launched a token asset management app pseudonymously. Received honorable mention in Solana Hackathon. Ultimately we decided to sunset the project and go a different direction.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Lead engineering, architecture and strategy of our Web Platform Engineering team. - Created visionary multi-year engineering roadmap to support the roughly 1,000 software engineers building web-based applications and tools at PayPal- Obtained budgetary commitments from CTO to meet roadmap needs- Defined and implemented hiring process, conducting interviews as necessary to expand the team - Designed and lead team to implement innovative, forward-looking, scalable platform services and tools such as PayPal's global multi-CDN deployment service used by PayPal's product, UI, marketing and services engineering organizations worldwide - Established partnerships with global Product Development teams and key platform security and services stakeholders to foster collaborative environment to achieve company goals- Supported PayPal's full web Software Development Life Cycle; from npm module development, to package management, framework support, containerized application builds (Docker), security scans, documentation, server deployments, logging, debugging and database operations (MongoDB)- Established software and services best practices like test automation, tight feedback loops, agile methodologies, staying connected to customers, on-call support rotations, monitoring and alerting policies - Provided ongoing coaching and consulting with Product Development teamsDaily tools / tech: NodeJS, Docker, nginx, MongoDB, Google Cloud, NextJS, git, JIRA, Slack

San Jose, Ca, Us

Lead software engineer of the PayPal Guest Checkout team.Lead, supported and mentored Guest Checkout engineering. Implemented unit and end-to-end tests, debugged production issues, created performance monitoring dashboards, fixed memory leaks, implemented product features such as i18n and collaborated with Checkout organization engineering leadership on cross-application framework features and best practices.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Lead Pebble Web Development and Web Operations teams- Recruited + built a strong web and cloud engineering team- Established software best practices & principles utilizing OSS tools to automate and standardize where possible- Guided direction of the Pebble web platform through roadmaps, quarterly goals in alignment with organizational needs- Lead teams responsible for architecture and implementation of business critical features and services such as: - Pebble timeline web backend (public REST APIs) - Pebble app store re-architecture to bring load times on mobile down to 2-3 seconds (from ~10) - Scaling the existing analytics pipeline databases - Guiding Pebble Web Operations to successful delivery of internal docker-based deployment platform on AWS - Creation + iteration of internal koajs-based server platform - Ongoing maintenance and improvements of existing platform services (security patches, enhancements, new features, etc)Other AccomplishmentsUtilized a modular / open source approach to software development leading to open sourcing key components of the web platform such as: koa-joi-router, git-deploy, koa-bunyan-logger, yieldb and koa-resourcerEstablished the Pebble Whitehat program by working closely with legal team and various engineering and technical support leadership to develop verbiage, rewards tiers and issue triage pipelineHelped refactor and streamline the product/engineering organization by working with small team of other stakeholders to clarify the organizational structure through the definition of key roles and "agile-esque" processesArchitected and oversaw the development of Pebble's cross-language/device data pipeline using Apache Kafka and Protocol Buffers. This pipeline integrates telemetry data from watches, phones, web services and databases which empowers and enables Data Science and other internal teams to build reactive, near-realtime customer features and discover new product insights.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Provided technical leadership at Recurly, including internal services, roadmap, developer experience, management, hiring and software infrastructure.- Managed + mentored a team of 12 software engineers- Recruited key engineering hires- Increased productivity of product engineering by working with operations and engineering to design and implement PCI compliant Software Development Life Cycle to reduce lead time to production- Assisted with architecture and development of 3rd party tools and APIs, including the .NET C# Recurly driver- Co-organizer of local meetups at Recurly headquarters

New York, Ny, Us

Lead maintainer of the open source Mongoose ODM project (development, support, training and speaking): 22k GitHub ★’s & 4 million downloads per month https://mongoosejs.comhttp://www.mongodb.comhttp://mongoosejs.com

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Software engineering and open source for a small tight-knit team building tools for educators https://www.learnboost.com

Co-founded Clickdummy, a web app that let designers (and dummies) turn their mockups into prototypes to get feedback fast. Acquired by Skookum in 2010.https://web.archive.org/web/20111011225444/https://clickdummy.com/

Front-end javascript/css/html monkey.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Primarily front-end engineering along with PHP, C#, Rails, and MySQL/MSSQL.

Resident front-end guru.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Developed internal web applications and report automation in support of key business needs- Lead and manage QA teams to test internal refinance applications as needed

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