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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Us

New York, Us

Director of the NYC-based messaging and creatives org, which is a spectrum of 40+ IC's to senior enginering managers. Managed the organization in 2023 through a simultaneous re-org, RTO, and RIF without significant business disruption. Respomsible for a reliable, high-throughput messaging pipeline that sends 1B+ SMS/email messages per day at peak. Perform technical oversight over complex Java-based services and technologies, including third-party ones like Planetscale and OpenAI. Acted as engineering lead for the launch of our email product, and new product experiments in payments and other domains.

Responsible for technology oversight, management, and hiring for Loyalsnap, which handles millions of messages per month for over a thousand premier boutique fitness/wellness chains around the world. Streamlined and modernized our Rails-based cloud platform, and designed our new advanced segmentation engine. Oversaw the buildout of modern, React-based CRM dashboards, as well as multiple integrations with third-party API's. Maintained steady performance and uptime through a 3x growth period, and optimized AWS cloud costs.

San Francisco, California, Us

CTO / Head of technology in the New York office, where I managed the entire engineering team, roadmaps, infrastructure budget, and hiring/mentoring. Responsible for growing and maintaining a 200K+ DAU multi-platform application, custom analytics / data science infrastructure, and CRM management/tools. Managed relationships with SF central tech, AWS, and multiple third-party vendors to create an efficient and low-cost cloud architecture.

Built a social casino app (Black Diamond Casino) and staffed up team from scratch, building the app to over $2MM/month revenue, and positioning the company for a successful acquisition by Zynga. Responsible for developing the Unity client, high-concurrency AWS backend in Java, and a custom analytics system using Redshift, Celery, and Postgres.

Lexington, Ky, Us

Managed the NYC office, and the development of Sojo's social casino titles. Created significant tech for our social slots title, including the payout engine, Monte Carlo simulation, and the optimized client renderer. Responsible for roadmap / scheduling / hands-on coding of the mobile port, using Unity. Handled high-level planning, metrics analysis, and revenue optimization, while continuing to support legacy titles like WeTopia.

Lexington, Ky, Us

Lead programmer on the social city-builder WeTopia, and was responsible for porting the entire application from HTML5/PHP to Flash/Java. Managed the game, toolset, and art pipeline, with the title earning over $2M in gross revenue.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Worked with a small team to create Dragon Age: Journeys (http://www.dragonagejourneys.com) for EA2D (a division of Electronic Arts). Helped refactor the project into a robust, scalable game engine, with support for EA's internal API's. Handled cross-promo integrations with the XBOX/PS3 retail Dragon Age titles, where items in the web game could unlock items in the console titles.

Founded a small studio which created web games for Kongregate, Armor Games, Addicting Games, and others. Handled the majority of the programming, business dealings, and contracting of external artists. These games (Mytheria, Armor Wars, Subterfuge, Monomaze, Virus, Super Fight Fight) achieved over 5 million combined plays.

Lead designer on an unnannounced XBOX 360 RPG prototype.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Gameplay programmer on Freelancer (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/freelancer), a PC space simulation game published by Microsoft. Responsible for AI and pathfinding work, and supporting the mission system.

Engine and tools programmer on Loose Cannon, a 3D car combat game.

B.S., Computer Science, Philosophy Minor

Bs, Computer Science / Philosophy