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Seattle, Wa, Us

Head up the application development, QA, devops, and IT teams to improve velocity, quality, standards, and processes. Collaborate with Product team; member of the executive leadership team. Termly is a fully remote international company.Highlights:- System usage increase of ~300% while keeping infrastructure cost to 67%- Deployment frequency: .14 deploys/day -> 5+ deploys/day- Lead time to change: 67+ business hours -> <6 business hours- Change failure rate: 31% -> <1%- Mean time to repair: 2-4 hours -> 20 minutesTech stack: Ruby on Rails, Python + Flask, AWS, Linux, NginX, PostgreSQL, Terraform+Terragrunt, Docker, K8s, Jira, CircleCI, RetoolScale: 10Ks customers, 100Ms monthly active users, 1Bs of monthly hits

Draper, Utah, Us

Manage a development team to deliver product updates. Work closely with Product, UX, and QA groups to create & refine processes to improve development speed, product quality, and engineering practices. Train developers & managers. Oversee architectural & technical direction of the team. Highlights: - Architected & implemented frameworks for reporting, dashboards, and ETL. - Pioneered new processes in SDLC, iterative R&D, prototyping, and CI/CD tools.- Created best-in-class onboarding documentation for new hires with consistent 30+% year-over-year growth.- Reduced open bug count from triple digits to single digits. Technologies used: PHP+Laravel, Python, AWS, LAMP, MySQL8, Puppet, Docker, Jira, CI/CDScale: multi-tenant, millions of users.

Lehi, Utah, Us

Develop and maintain SaaS e-commerce services platform to help retailers & suppliers connect and do business. Provide technical and business strategy and develop technical and leadership talent within the company.Responsible for software development, system administration, DevOps, deployment, automation, monitoring & alerting, tools development.Highlights:- Improved system uptime in first year from ~80% to 99.99%+ through cloud migration and other strategies.- Improved deployment process from 6-hour manual process to a single script with continuous deployment on the horizon.- Kept unwanted turnover to 0%- Improved cross-departmental processes resulting in 50% improvement in internal customer satisfaction.Technologies used: Python+Django, PHP+Zend Framework, LAMP, AWS, Lucene/Solr, MongoDB, Saltstack, DockerScale: billions of records, dozens of millions of records processed daily

Lehi, Ut, Us

Spinoff from Doba. Create and maintain systems and software to provide private drop shipping software platforms and services to retailers & suppliers.Technologies used: Linux, Apache, MongoDB, PHP, ZendFramework, and Solr.

Lehi, Utah, Us

Architected & developed Doba's technology, expanding Doba's operational abilities and resulting in a virtual catalog of 2 Million SKUs across all consumer categories coming from 500+ suppliers with over 3 billion monthly updates.Technologies used: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Solr.

Highland Park, Michigan, Us

Provided technology leadership for a 120-seat call center by maintaining servers and workstations and developing software for companies like Thomson Consumer Electronics, Avaya, Chase Bank, and Frito-Lay.Technologies used: Active Server Pages, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft IIS, Interactive Intelligence

North Hampton, Nh, Us

Created custom software for clients including banks, auto dealerships, satellite service companies, and political parties.Technologies used: Active Server Pages and Microsoft SQL Server.

Computer Science

Diploma