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San Francisco, California, US

Tech Lead of Developer Experience: Developer Environments team. My customers are the 800+ Rippling engineers.My projects have included automating IDE setup on cloud devboxes; making tests run much faster; and mentoring an intern to revamp the infrastructure for cloud dev environments. Coming soon: benchmarks to assess and compare AI dev tools; and.

Cambridge, MA, US

Tech lead on Genomics Platform's Data Analysis & Operations team.Building software infrastructure for genomics research, supporting the Broad’s mission: "to better understand the roots of disease and to narrow the gap between biological insight and clinical impact, paving the way for novel therapeutics for a wide range of human diseases."* In Q2 2023.

Professional sabbatical to travel, move to Boston area, and pursue other goals.

South San Francisco, California, US

2021-2022, Deployment and Configuration:* Tech lead of new Configuration team. Engineering lead on multi-month, full-team project to build user-centric tooling for rolling out changes to runtime configuration gradually and safely. Grew team 3 to 6 mid-project, stretching limits of effective parallelization to ship on time. * Promoted to Staff Engineer.

San Francisco, CA, US

* Senior platform engineer building B2C and B2B logistics software for shipping and packaging, with Node.js, Postgres, and React.* Led engineering on Shopify API integration while onboarding 4 new engineers.* Led engineering on eBay API integration, and published open-source eBay API client for Node.js.* Drove efforts to clean up technical debt and improve.

Oakland, California, US

* Developed logistics software for innovative food distribution model. XP/agile approach with Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, and Angular.* Led development of marketplace Availability service: aggregating inventory, purchase orders, just-in-time​ capacities, and sales to communicate product availabilities to the market website and automated subscription service..

San Francisco, CA, US

* Rebuilt a global SaaS application with millions of consumer and enterprise customers using Node.js.* Lead Engineer, Growth & Architecture team. Responsible for team’s operations, delivering features, interfacing with other stakeholders, and mentoring.* Strong advocate of long-term maintainability of code, automated testing, and reducing barriers between.

Provided expert consulting and development for Drupal and Node.js to 30+ clients. Specialized in custom application development, auditing for best practices, site repairs, geo/mapping, scaling for high traffic, and training. Direct client engagement as well as partnerships with other firms & developers.

Dev, ops, and business development for AntiquesNearMe.com, a startup building a portal for antiques local search. Gained startup and business development experience.

Framingham, MA, US

Web developer in IDG's Online Publishing Group. Specialized in PHP and Drupal, maintained websites of high-traffic global publications, and developed new online products.

Arlington, Virginia, US

Built online communities for progressive, non-profit, and social-mission organizations. Primarily Drupal development.

Web development in ASP, PHP, and Drupal.Built HTML and Javascript mockups for an enterprise software company's sales department. Developed a custom CMS for a Boston community newspaper. Built an ad network with OpenX and Joomla. Managed website content for Boston University.