Taking some time off from full-time work

Oversaw internal technology development and guided technology choices and best practices to ensure consistency across our projects, encourage collaboration, and build up our internal tooling and knowledge.Built and led the team that created our open source tool Zero - https://getzero.dev, which lets early-stage startups get up and running with a solid, stable, production-ready application instantly.Provided software architecture and design review and guidance to client companies and engineers to help provide context and solve problems with production systems.Mentored and helped grow the skillset of our engineering community through 1:1 mentoring, group discussions and presentations, and leading by example by helping to solve technical challenges.Wrote code in Go, Node.js, and Python. Using Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS.

Worked under the VP Engineering to provide guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to the Engineering team. Identified shortcomings in the technology stack, processes, and software, and provided solutions. Worked independently and with other teams to create and introduce new technologies and tools to improve the stability, security, and scalability of the products. Wrote code in Scala and Javascript and helped introduce new tech like Kubernetes, GraphQL, Golang, and Hashicorp Vault.Worked with the Engineering and HR teams to improve the hiring process, interviewed and hired many candidates.

As one of the first engineers at HootSuite, helped to lay the foundation for what became an amazing product and an amazing team.Wrote code in Go, Scala, and PHP. Designed, built, and maintained scalable, secure distributed systems that allowed the product to scale to tens of millions of users. Chose tools, languages, and frameworks to stay on top of technological advances. Architected and helped to implement the move from a monolithic code base to a microservice architecture. Helped lead the charge on the adoption of new tech such as Kubernetes, Kafka, Hashicorp Vault and Consul, Terraform, and Golang.Spoke at conferences, meetups, and on panels about various innovative pieces of work like our mesh networking and feature-flagging systems.Provided help, mentorship, and architectural advice to the rest of the team.

Co-Founder, Lead Developer of a small iPhone app development company.

Created various applications for iPhone (Objective-C) and Blackberry (Java) along with interconnected web apps and APIs in Ruby on Rails.

Led a "skunkworks" effort within the organization creating functional prototypes and environments using PHP, Flash, Flex, and Drupal to assist the CEO and sales team.

Created and administered the front and back ends of a web-based multiplayer gaming site. Wrote code in Flash, Flex, and PHP.

Wrote PHP and Javascript code and worked with PostgreSQL and Oracle to build many of Navarik's SaaS applications for shipping companies.Helped design and create Navarik's flagship 'Navarik Inspection' product.

Wrote code in C++, PHP, and Javascript. Designed and created the back end of many of HomeLAN's large core projects such as game server rental sites HomeLANXtreme.com and UdriveXtreme.com. Worked with the US Army team to develop the authentication and registration system for their game 'America's Army: Operations', as well as similar systems for Halo (PC) and Battlefield 1942. Designed and created 'In Game Chat', an application to allow IRC chat with other users as an overlay inside any game using Microsoft's Detours libraries.

Wrote Perl code for a small domain name registrar which was acquired by Verisign.Responsible for implementing various systems including enabling the purchase of country code top-level domains.