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Munich, Bavaria, De

New York, Ny, Us

Board member working on the technology and development committees helping to support Knology's non-profit mission of practical social science for a better world.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

Technical lead focused on the classification, consumption, distribution, and removal of content for millions. Managed multiple squads in the machine learning, back-end, and data engineering spaces. Built in-house supervised, unsupervised, and NLP models as well as back-end integrations with openAI, HiveAI, and AssemblyAI with a focus on UGC podcasts.

Sydney, Au

- Managed the Payments Engineering Department which was responsible for all charges, refunds, and disbursements to merchants with roughly $3bn in yearly transaction volume.- Overhauled the hiring process with the help of co-members of the DEI committee, transitioning to pair programming away from whiteboarding algorithms, and standardizing questions to eliminate common biases.- Instituted agile processes including sprint frameworks, fibonacci-style ticket sizing, refinement, estimation, commitment, and retros; measure and maintain velocity by identifying and getting ahead of blockers.- Led on numerous projects including launching Quadpay in international markets, migrating from a monolithic architecture to microservices, compliance-driven changes to our fee structures, modernizing our accounting software and practices, implementing strong customer authentication, adapting to multiple payment processors and issuers, and scaling up our code and infrastructure to handle the 300%+ yoy growth.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

• Head of the engineering department, reporting directly to the President of Metis, the Data Science Division within Kaplan. Responsible for communicating velocity, vision, successes, and challenges to the C-Suite and coordinating top-down goals and KPIs.• Lead the engineering team through sprint planning, refinement, estimation, commitment, retrospectives, code reviews, design documents, and post-mortems. Responsible for the team's overall velocity and output.• Manage direct reports through one-on-ones, mentorship, training, on-boarding, and day-to-day guidance.• Hire and onboard new engineers.• Conduct product planning and prioritization meetings, scope projects before prioritization, design solutions to problems, head kickoff meetings, and communicate progress and data-driven results back to key stakeholders.• Utilize Ruby on Rails, Postgres, React, ERB, Heroku, Cloudflare, S3, and JavaScript to design and implement solutions to prioritized projects.• Enacted a CI system, increased test coverage from 0% to 90%, and enforced testing best practices.• Maintain our Salesforce instance, improve automation and existing processes, build apex classes.

- Co-Founded, built, and expanded a FinTech mobile ordering and payment app that boosted revenue by as much as $75K per year at various clubs and restaurants in the Washington, DC area.- Managed the engineering and product teams, working alongside the CEO as we built up the company.- Led on investment and client meetings to secure new funding and contracts.- Built a Point of Sale integration into restaurant systems in DC utilizing Ionic/Cordova, Angular 2, Node, Koa, JavaScript, MongoDB, and Mongoose.

New York, New York, Us

• Worked on emerging B2B 401(k) platform, specifically focused on retirement glidepath functionality in a Ruby on Rails backend. Rails, react, activerecord, postgresql stack.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Formalized the on-boarding process for new hires. • Established and maintained the development process including branch management, best practices, proper formatting, and code review. • Built new user-facing applications using node, express, mocha, gulp, handlebars, dynamoDB, and JavaScript. • Maintained legacy applications built in Node, Express, Angular, JavaScript, and PostgreSQL. • Updated build process and node versions on all apps.• Built web applications in Node, Express, Angular, and JavaScript - Apps vary in complexity from front-end heavy services like weather to more complicated apps like event planning and mapping gas prices in your area. • Implemented new tools for analytics tracking including tagmanager and newrelic single page application monitoring. • Migrated our ad platform from mOcean to adsense, DFP, and header-bidding. • Aided in the creation of a single ad library utilized across our applications.• Created a location component that utilizes all available location sources across multiple devices, operating systems, browsers, and application versions. Sources include native location access through a phone's OS, browser geolocation, IP address, and finally zip code.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Philosophy

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Film And Television