Member of the advisory board. FAMA is a cloud-based, SaaS platform that offers employers actionable insight into a candidate's social media background and digital footprint.

Provided expert technology guidance, hands-on mentorship, and software architecture implementation. A selection of achievements includes:* Improved quality such that a resource dedicated to production support was freed to code new features.* More than doubled server performance.* Delivered training sessions on web technologies, relational databases, and security; developed training material, e.g. wiki pages, emails, blog posts* Influenced engineering to write unit tests, increasing the number of tests from near-zero to several hundred.* Mentored software developers, wrote a number of new revenue-driving features, improved software development processes for better communication, and refactored code for easier maintenance.* Technologies included Magento Enterprise, PHP, MySQL, CloudFlare, memcache, redis, git, dploy.io, jenkins, vagrant, Amazon Web Services: EC2, SWF, SQS, ElastiCache, RDS, S3

* Designed and implemented Birchbox’s subscription system including data design and class modeling* Improved website performance by over 20% for critical revenue-driving transactions* Advocated for and actively taught on the topics of databases and of security. Became First Round Capital’s primary resource when a portfolio company had a security breach* Implemented features to drive top line growth (e.g. e-commerce revenue, # of subscribers)* Automated processes enabling Birchbox staff to accomplish more without additional headcount* Managed the payment system, including a transition from Authorize.net to Litle as the payment gateway* Improved tradeoffs between fraud and revenue, and improved overall fraud detection* Technologies included Magento Enterprise, PHP, MySQL, memcache, Java, git, and Amazon Web Services

* Audited security of the technical architecture of one of the world's largest banks* Analyzed software for security vulnerabilities, designed code fixes (C++ and Java)* Developed performance improvements for backend systems (.NET and SQL Server)* Consulted on software development best practices (automated testing, build processes, etc.)

* Built a high-throughput product used to monitor database traffic for enterprises* Evolved a near-zero revenue product to become a market leader in high-speed, enterprise-scale database monitoring* Architected a cross-platform solution supporting all of the major database vendors (Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, etc.) on all of the major operating systems (Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX)* Managed multiple software teams: web server, backend, and new product development* Worked at the highest levels to advise on technology strategy and at the lowest levels helping developers with assembly-level debugging* Implemented network sniffing technology to monitor database traffic* Authored a textbook on database security* Software was primarily in C++ and Java, with new development using C#

Built software to reverse engineer and identify a running process using only its memory footprint.

* Built arguably the first advertising system for mobile devices.* Coded in C++ on PalmOS, and Java on Unix.* Volunteered for the Wireless Advertising Association to develop standards for mobile ads.

Led several technology teams of Fortune 500 telecommunications and finance corporations