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- Built a cloud-hosted SaaS for poker clubs and festival organizers to manage their events, including CRM, event planning and management, player registration, tracking, controlling, presenting, and marketing poker tournaments and events.- Developed an innovative smartphone app that is tied to the platform's back office, providing live event and schedule information updated every second and offering features such as real-time tournament clocks, live updates on standings and player eliminations, and the ability to connect with poker clubs in real-time.- Implemented strong security measures for the platform, such as 2FA, encryption at rest, authenticated sessions, and GDPR compliance.- Handled business development, sales, PR, media, marketing, and other aspects of the platform's growth and success.- Showcased LetsPoker at major poker festivals such as PokerStars Live, Unibet Open, and 888LIVE, demonstrating its reliability and industry-wide recognition.- Continuously developed LetsPoker with a dedicated team of experts to ensure smooth and efficient operation and regular updates that bring new and exciting features to both players and organizers.

- As CTO at Playerfy, played a key role in the development of a mobile and back-end app that allows amateur football players to find other players to play with.- Led the development team and ensured that the app met the specific needs of amateur football players, providing a user-friendly experience.- Architected a highly available infrastructure for hosting the back-end on the AWS cloud, ensuring that the app can handle high traffic and provide a seamless experience to users.- Created pipelines for automation to streamline the development and deployment process.- Integrated Slack API to improve team collaboration and streamline the matchday management process.

- Built a Track & Trace system from scratch for Procter & Gamble and Michelin, which interfaced with a GSM modem to listen for SMS messages of a certain type that drivers would send to mark a shipment as completed.- Developed specialized code to read and interpret the shipping slip code sent via SMS, allowing real-time monitoring of the fleet and adjustment of shipping patterns.- Designed and built the entire system, including the front-end user interface and back-end database and server architecture.- Worked closely with P&G and Michelin to understand their logistics and transportation needs, ensuring that the Track & Trace system met their specific requirements.- Completed the project on time and within budget, delivering a robust and reliable system that helped improve shipping efficiency and reduce costs for both companies.

- In 1998 at age 11-12 I created a complete program for a customs broker (using VB4) that they used internally to calculate warehousing costs (as "Solitaire Software", see linked article below), I also shipped it in a box and designed custom stickers for the floppy disks- Started Tachyon Labs at the age of 13-14, a software development agency with which I built software for clients on eLance and other platforms, as well as for myself.- Created NetMeter, a dial-up connection monitoring app that showed download and upload speed and tracked monthly phone bill cost.- Developed TachyonSpell, a spell checker library for developers written in Visual Basic 6, and later SharpSpell, a spell checking library for .NET and ASP.NET that incorporated AI for ranking and provided as-you-type spell checking in the web browser using AJAX. Had customers including PricewaterhouseCoopers, the US Army, Bioware (makers of Mass Effect, Baldur's Gate), and many more.- Developed Tachyon Privacy Protector ZX, a computer cleanup tool that cleared caches and more. Sold rights to it later to a company.- Created Visual Kix, a network script visual editor for the KiXtart scripting language developed for Windows NT domain controllers and used by Mazda, Alcatel-Lucent and other Fortune 500 companies.- Created Audience Meter, an application for the RCTV Venezuela TV station to parse and visualize TV audience ratings, allowing comparisons between stations.- Built a strong reputation on eLance and received positive feedback from clients, developing software for clients across a range of industries.

- Led the development of BOTW Local, a pioneering local search engine similar to Yelp, from conception to launch.- Made strategic decisions regarding code-base architecture and design, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.- Spearheaded the migration of an old legacy VB.NET code-base to C#, improving code quality and maintainability.- Developed a real-time specialized geographic search engine capable of returning results within milliseconds while searching an index several gigabytes in size, utilizing cutting-edge technologies and algorithms.- Reorganized the server infrastructure and configured new servers to be used with server virtualization and clustering, improving resource utilization and fault tolerance.- Successfully migrated applications from the old legacy servers to new virtualized servers, minimizing downtime and improving reliability.- Migrated the source control system from SourceSafe to TFS (Team Foundation Server), improving collaboration and version control.- Rearchitected co-located server cabinet architecture to add extra redundancy by adding secondary physical links between equipment, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery. Set up dedicated Storage Area Networks (SAN) with failovers, Cisco network switches with failovers, remote KVM systems, etc.- Introduced test-driven development practices and decoupling to the team, improving code quality and reducing bugs.