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Palo Alto, California, US

Billing, Usage, and Identity- Ruby on Rails

Irvine, California, US

Account Operations- focused on Security, Billing, Usage, and all things customer- Ruby on Rails, Postgresql, Sidekiq, AWS, Heroku, Auth0, etc, etc...

Denver, Colorado, US

* Managing 7 engineers across two development teams.* Platform Team Project/Tech Lead* Actively contributing to the PAIRIN platform and products.PAIRIN is a social enterprise software company whose mission is to make education relevant and hiring equitable. The PAIRIN Readiness Management System™ is the world’s first competency-based talent ecosystem that.

Denver, Colorado, US

• + Ruby, Rails, React, JavaScript, CSS, HTML+ Postgresql, GraphQL, Sidekiq, ElasticSearch, RESTful APIs, Data Integration+ AWS: EC2, Beanstalk, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, ECR, ECS, CloudFormation, Secrets Manager+ RSpec.
• Tech Lead for the new Career Exploration feature, working through initial requirements and data exploration, architecture, and design to implementation and delivery to production through beta and GA.
• Mentored another senior dev to take over the Tech-lead responsibilities for Career Exploration
• Improved documentation and process within the engineering org, including testing, work towards CI/CD, project management, architecture and design, and on-call rotation responsibilities, reporting, and transparency.
• Improved code quality by leading and raising the bar on code reviews

US

• While employed at ZipRecruiter, I was the lead engineer on/with the JobBoard.io product/team, which is a white-label job board product.+ Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML, Bash+ Postgresql, RESTful APIs, Heroku.
• Owned and implemented key pieces of software and systems, including our E-Commerce engine/system, our security framework, and our RESTful API.
• Achieved code excellence by promoting, requiring, and conducting design and code reviews, unit tests, and continuous refactoring of old code to remove tech debt
• Promoted employee excellence by mentoring junior engineers and actively including the entire team in requirements and design sessions
• Ensured the right features were implemented by closely interacting with Product, Marketing, and Customer SupportCheck us out: https://www.jobboard.io/

Denver, Colorado, US

• + Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, ReactJS, Praxis, HTML, CSS, XML, Bash+ Postgresql, RESTful APIs, Oauth2, Heroku+ RSpec, Git, GitHub, CircleCI, Codeship, Linux, Mac OS X
• Owned and implemented key pieces of software and systems, including Account/User Management and our RESTful API
• Achieved code excellence by promoting, requiring, and conducting design and code reviews, unit tests, and continuous refactoring of old code to remove tech debt
• Promoted employee excellence by mentoring junior engineers
• Ensured the right features were implemented by closely interacting with Product, Marketing, and Customer SupportI was one of the senior engineers on a very small (but growing!), collaborative, and very agile.

Itasca, Illinois, US

• Developer, Technical and Team Lead, ScrumMaster, Mentor+ Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, AngularJS, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, XML, Bash+ MySQL, RESTful APIs, Cloud Technologies (AWS, Google GCE, Rackspace, etc)+ RSpec, Git.
• Owned and implemented key pieces of software and systems in our massive codebase
• Achieved code excellence by promoting, requiring, and conducting design and code reviews, unit tests, and continuous refactoring of old code to remove tech debt
• Promoted employee excellence by mentoring junior engineers and interviewing prospective candidates
• Ensured the right features were implemented by closely interacting with Product, Architecture, Production Support, and Operations
• Increased customer satisfaction and reduced time-to-market by taking a lead role in moving from a 6-week cycle to a weekly releaseIn addition to leading the team, I work with Product and Management to help groom the.

Fort Lauderdale, FL, US

• Architect, Developer, Technical and Team Lead, Mentor+ Java, JEE (Servlet, Spring, JDO, Velocity), JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, CSS, XML+ JUnit, Ant, WebSphere, Perforce, Oracle, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
• Owned and implemented key pieces of software and systems for the GoToAssist Express, GoToMeeting/Webinar, and GoToMyPC products
• Facilitated Citrix’s adoption of Scrum by leading the first Scrum project: GoToAssist Express
• Increased scalability, testability, and overall quality of code by moving the Java codebase to using SpringI was the technical team lead, responsible for architecture, design, and primary development of the web.

• Developer, Technical and Team Lead+ Java, J2EE (EJB, JMS, Servlet, JSP, JSF, Struts, Tiles)+ JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML, XSL, AJAX, many 3rd-party APIs+ JUnit, Ant, WebSphere, Eclipse RCP, ClearCase, Subversion.
• Owned and implemented key pieces of software and systems for our Telematics platform and products
• Increased quality, improved customer satisfaction, and decreased cost by utilizing and integrating 3rd-party GIS/mapping and Business Intelligence systems
• Increased productivity and decreased engineering costs by effectively leading local and offshore developers

• Developer, Team Lead+ Java, J2EE (EJB, JMS, Servlet, JSP, Tag), XML, XSL, JavaScript, HTML+ JUnit, Ant, WebLogic, CVS, Oracle, Unix, Windows
• Implemented key pieces of software built in Java and J2EE to replace a system written in Perl
• Improved customer satisfaction and reduced costs by effectively developing a self-service website builder which replaced an older built-to-order system

• Developer+ Java, XML, XSL, Perl, JavaScript, HTML+ CVS, Oracle, Unix, Windows
• Won business for CourtLink by successfully implementing an API and notification system
• Reduced time-to-market for bringing new courts online by developing an XML language and Java application to retrieve data from court websites

London, GB

• Developer+ Java, J2EE (Servlet, JSP), C++, Visual Basic, JavaScript, HTML+ Visual SourceSafe, Oracle, SQLServer, Unix, Windows
• Increased customer satisfaction and reduced operations’ overhead by developing installation scripts for my team’s desktop client-server suite of applications
• Greatly improve customer satisfaction and further reduced overhead by leading the replacement of our desktop client-server applications to new J2EE web applications* Started as an Associate Software Engineer