Assumed vendor contract responsibilities and negotiated contract renewals, which consolidated organizational expenses. Technical lead on updating systems and processes to adhere to stricter compliance regulations provided by our parent company. Audited and documented existing organizational systems and tools related to compliance initiatives. Owned hiring and onboarding processes for contract employees while simultaneously managing a high-performing team of full-time engineers.Leadership role in security, performance, and optimization across all project and engineering teams.

Updated interview best practices for new hire cohort and facilitated hiring process for open engineering roles.Managed onboarding process for four new engineering hires, ensuring a smooth transition within their first 90 days of employment.Mentored team of software engineers, acclimating them to primary code base and coaching team members to make frequent individual contributions to coding workflow. Developed a team of engineers who are now the most productive software developers within our organization.Implemented team building opportunities, including a standing meeting that offers a constructive and collaborative environment during which engineers can problem solve and obtain feedback on projects.

Technical and project lead on a significant email service provider migration project, moving over 50 million user records to modernize our lifecycle communications. Rearchitected ingestion of utility, usage, and invoice data to streamline workflow and processes. Initiated an overhaul of our code testing requirements, which facilitated broader test coverage, decreased down time for company systems, and increased confidence in code going to production.Coached engineering colleagues on updated testing methodologies and best practices related to their day-to-day development work.Integrated CI pipeline tooling to auto-generate and validate API testing specs. Supported migration efforts from legacy and unsupported frameworks into modernized Rails system, managing colleagues and contributing to strategic efforts within overall initiative.

Led foray into transitioning existing monolithic application to a microservice architecture. Presented new approaches, iterated on and delivered the first microservices into existing production ecosystem.Introduced robust test harness (pytest) to the codebase in order to increase the quality of and confidence in the code being delivered. Developed the test platform in such a way as to encourage developer adoption via boilerplate abstraction as well as creating reusable modules, functions and objects.Led a series of workshops educating developers on how to effectively use the new test harness to develop, refactor and ship robust code with high confidence.Improved the existing state of the database by adding indexes to increase performance of commonly used access patterns, foreign keys to maintain data integrity and standard database table timestamps for transactional information and statistical analysis.Identified several security vulnerabilities in the system including the sending of plain text passwords to logging aggregators, committing secret credentials in the code base and not addressing CSRF in our Flask based web application.Led initiatives for developer growth and culture amongst the engineering team including creating engineering workshops focused on hands on exercises such as TDD Katas, building docker images and uploading them to quay.io docker registry, and converting libraries from Python 2 to 3. These initiatives also included organizing bi-weekly gatherings to casually discuss various software topics of interest or to focus on specific technical presentations (e.g. microservices at Netflix, refactoring, database scalability).

Built Google Authentication system granting background services permissionsGathered time-series data from Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Android device APIs to import data at regular intervals storing and querying with ElasticsearchBuilt fact-based Rules Engine to deliver Questions and Insights about user data to users via Google Cloud Messaging based on personal data thresholdsBuilt a rich notification layer for Android Devices allowing users to provide feedback directly from the notificationInherited and maintained the main Android application fixing Custom View, Caching, and Sessions bugsUsed Node.js to subscribe to data streams and set up callback routes to collect data from Nest, Fitbit, Jawbone, Uber, and other data sources

Re-engineered and refactored legacy mobile APIs to improve performance while dramatically simplifying the codebase for existing Byliner applicationResponsible for architecture and implementation of APIs for the new Byliner Weekly Publication product, using Apple and Google Play push services to deliver content to mobile devicesOpen sourced a lightweight social graph library backed by Redis created for the Byliner codebaseResponsible for significant performance improvements and elimination of request timeoutsInvestigated and fixed several longstanding critical bugs upon joining the teamMaintained high level of test coverage using MiniTest and Rspec for Unit and Integration Testing

Used JRuby and Sinatra to build asynchronous image resizing and cropping capabilities to circumvent concurrency limitations in Ruby.Architected an image search service using Google, Amazon, Pinterest and Instagram search APIs that returned normalized image results to Seesaw products.Implemented user authentication via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and user’s telephone number.Built an automated and scalable text messaging service using Twilio API to verify users’ phone numbers.Responsible for working with the mobile client team to deliver RESTful APIs for two different iOS products.Consistently deployed high quality code to production while operating in the fast-paced iterative product cycle of a seed funded startup.

Professional Poker PlayerDeveloped risk assessment methodologies by quantifying expectation, probability, and experience while taking into account historical data.Fostered strong analytical and logical reasoning skills through consistent self-performance analysis and studious skill development.Consistently demonstrated the ability to operate effectively in a high-pressure environment while multitasking concurrent work-related tasks.Maintained detailed documentation to track earnings, expenses, profitability, and risk tolerance.Operated an additional small business conducting training sessions for amateur players.

Proposal Team/Risk Analyst:Worked with the GPS III Programmatic Risk team to assess potential risks on the GPS III Space Program proposal.Teamed with subject matter experts to identify system processes and their associated risks, developed mitigation plans to ensure system and mission success.Created processes to quantify and convey the severity of mission impact accompanying each system's risks.Authored Maintainability and Contamination Control Plan for GPS III proposal.Systems Engineer/Analyst:Incorporated a geolocation error propagation tool into an existing dynamics simulator using Fortran and MATLAB programming languages.Developed an attitude error estimator using camera and geometry model specifications per client requirements.Provided time sensitive mission critical support needed to resolve issues with a malfunctioning satellite transponder. Conducted analysis and enhancement of system performance through simulation based testing.Performed thorough requirements validation and verification for 3rd party sub-contractors.