Created Middle (https://middle.app), a low-code integration platform for businesses:- Middle simplifies the pushing/pulling of data between products, featuring an in-browser code editor, a visual no-code interface, and a full database for the customer's data. No SDK to download, no complicated API to understand.- Middle frees up expensive developer time to focus on building out their core business, and empowers non-engineers to create integrations and other solutions for customers.As CTO,- Invented and coded the MVP. Made all technology and architectural choices. Created React frontend, Python backend, scheduling and queue system, integrations with AWS, database schemas, deployment scripts.- Grew revenue, help with sales calls, checkins with customers, responding to product questions, helping with technical issues, soliciting feedback for future enhancements.- Hired and trained a team of integration engineers. - Owned site reliability.- Currently working on v2 of the product in a new stack.MVP stack: React, TypeScript, Python, Django, pytest, Cypress, Docker, AWS, ECS, CloudFormation, EC2, ALB, ElasticSearch, MySQL, Lambda, SQS, FigmaNew stack: We're redesigning/re-architecting Middle, to Rust and FoundationDB, and building it around WebAssembly.

Originally second engineer hire at the leading marketing/loyalty rewards program in health & fitness. Went on to become lead, then CTO. Helped drive 20x increase in revenue over tenure, to profitability in Q1 2020.- Drove the search for product/market fit with CEO, lead designer, product manager, creating numerous product enhancements, including new API, front-end rewrite, event dashboard, new in-house integration platform, A/B test system, ML-based "smart save" customer churn prediction system, and more. (Python, Django, MySQL, Redshift, Redis)- Expanded market reach and accelerated feature development by creating a new OAuth 2-based API, allowing customers and third party providers to push point rewards, end user updates, and power completely new features. An improved, well-supported, well-documented API was critical to Perkville's success. (Python, Django)- Owned the infrastructure. Got us off Linode and on to AWS. Scaled architecture to meet demand. Analyzed and reduced usage costs. Implemented new services as needed. (AWS, EC2, ELB, S3, Aurora RDS, MySQL, DMS, Redis)- Designed & implemented new customer search tools, increasing visibility and trust for business users and support. (Python, Redshift)- Owned site reliability. 24/7 on-call rotation, with team. Developed systems to anticipate, detect and avert reliability issues. Debugged inconsistent load times and other performance problems. Implemented zero-downtime deployments.- Built out the programming/QA team. Recruited, hired, mentored and supervised a team of programmers.- Create, manage development pipeline: Assign projects to programmers, work with assignees to design new schemas and code architecture, and assist assignees in meeting deadlinesReact, JavaScript, Python, Django, Linux, AWS, AWS Lambda, AWS VPC, AWS Cloud Formation, Docker, AWS Aurora, MySQL, AWS Redshift, Linode, MongoDB, Redis, nginx, SendGrid, SendWithUs, Vagrant, Fabric, Selenium, Git, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Salesforce, Zorua

Created and owned new software products for the gigantic 20,000+ staff of the University of Texas, as a junior software engineer in the Office of Accounting.- Create and maintain web applications for staff, administrators, and professors- Built UT Requests, a flexible web application for creating and routing administrative forms- Built LD Online, a web application for staff to check their long distance telephone usage- Designed user experience for a new online shopping site in collaboration with usability group- Maintained and solved critical issues with the legacy shopping portal TXShop- Led Python user group for the University's developers- Mentored new software developer traineesTechnologies: Python, Django, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Natural, ADABAS, Oracle, SVN, Selenium, Vagrant, Linux

- Code HTML frontend, code email marketing campaigns- Manage biweekly emailed newsletter campaigns- Write/proof copy for periodicals and other materialTechnologies: HTML/CSS, Constant Contact, custom in-house CMS