CrowdHealth is not insurance. We are disrupting the 2.6 trillion-dollar health care market. It's an alternative way to pay for your health care. No surprise bills. No doctor networks. Health care can return to being between you and your doctor.- Led a diverse team of engineers, promoting a culture of innovation and improvement.- Orchestrated a cost-effective migration to AWS, saving tens of thousands annually.- Deployed a CI/CD pipeline using Docker and Github Actions, enhancing software delivery speed and reliability.- Implemented a Docker-based AWS Elastic Beanstalk deployment pipeline, boosting deployment efficiency.- Established a HIPAA-compliant cloud environment with AWS, ensuring robust data protection.- Integrated Vanta security compliance, strengthening our computing security framework.- Engineered a technology pivot with Node.js, TypeScript, and GraphQL on PostgreSQL, increasing our technical agility.- Managed vendor relationships, negotiating contracts for optimal service and cost benefits.- Facilitated clear communication of complex tech concepts between management and technical teams.

Semo is a direct-to-consumer insurtech platform is positioned to be the Credit Karma of auto insurance. Utilizing proprietary algorithms users are given a Semo Score and are armed with insights that allow them to negotiate with insurance agencies.- Hands-on CTO managing multidisciplinary teams including QA, front, and back-end teams- Implementation of tech stack including Node.js with Typescript- Implement back-end APIs with AWS Lambda- Deliver responsive web use experiences with React and Tailwind CSS- Created CI/CD pipeline speed up delivery with AWS CodeBuild and Github Actions- Research and development of blockchain solutions utilizing Ethereum smart contracts- Measure user engagement via several analytical tools including Google Analytics, Matamo, Hotjar- Management of several marketing sites with Wordpress

- Design, build and implemented a next-generation content recommendation algorithm powered by AI and machine learning- Design, plan and launch our backend system to support our next generation competition platform for iOS and Android- Write, test and ship code with the node.js, typescript and python ecosystems on Google Cloud and AWS- Manage Jira project queue, communicate priorities to the team- Running stand-ups for multiple teams and acting as the product owner- Working with designers to create wireframes and designs for product features- Acting as a QA and release manager

- Recruit and lead engineering teams and managers located in Austin TX, San Francisco CA, New York City and Bangalore India. Leadership includes running daily stand-up meetings, ensuring team is hitting defined goals and acting as principal software architect.- Effectively communicate with the product team and stakeholders and ensure software projects are delivered on time with high quality.- Represent the Rhythm Audience engineering group at a high level throughout the organization.- Coordinate with and ensure the Rhythm Audience group is conforming to the wider organization engineering goals and standards.- Research, evaluate and implement new technologies within the organization.- Set up and enforce coding standards, unit testing, acceptance testing, code review process, continuous integration and continuous deployment systems.- Assist in architecting high volume applications within a micro-service environment.- Oversee an overseas engineering teams consisting of over 40 mobile, web and front-end developers.- Define and ensure applications both mobile and web are being written according to documented standards.

As CTO, I helped scale the organization to over 250 employees and $100M in annual recurring revenue. We made several strategic acquisitions of companies, including Viggle Inc, Corona Labs, and SuperRewards. Eventually, we sold Perk to RhythmOne.- Recruit and lead engineering teams located in Austin TX, San Francisco CA, New York City and Bangalore India. Leadership includes running daily stand-up meetings, ensuring team is hitting defined goals and acting as principal software architect.- Research, evaluate and implement new technologies within the organization.- Set up and enforce coding standards, unit testing, acceptance testing, code review process, continuous integration and continuous deployment systems.- Bring highly scalable web applications from concept to reality. These applications receive hundreds of millions of requests per day and power the Perk platform.- Architected a big data warehouse solution for analytics and internal metrics that drives business decisions.- Oversee an overseas engineering teams consisting of over 40 mobile, web and front-end developers.- Serve as principal architect of high volume web applications built by the engineering team.- Define and ensure applications both mobile and web are being written according to documented standards.- Architect a custom big data analytics solution to solve data and reporting issues unique to the business.

- Architected, built and maintained Perk’s backend API which processes 85,000 million requests per day.- Introduced and built backend systems in the Laravel PHP Framework- Implemented the beanstalkd background queue system for all asynchronous workloads.- Added the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) for backend application monitoring and error reporting across the entire organization.- Define and document APIs and ensure they are built according to the specifications agreed upon.- Audit and verified that all consumers (mobile apps and web properties) are integrating APIs according to specifications.

- Architected, built and maintained Perk’s backend API which processes 85,000 million requests per day.- Introduced and built backend systems in the Laravel PHP Framework- Implemented the beanstalkd background queue system for all asynchronous workloads.- Added the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) for backend application monitoring and error reporting across the entire organization.- Define and document APIs and ensure they are built according to the specifications agreed upon.- Audit and verified that all consumers (mobile apps and web properties) are integrating APIs according to specifications.

- Lead a team of mobile and backend developers from inception to launch of Michaels Stores mobile apps on both Apple iOS and Google Android.- Acted as principal architect and developer for the Michaels Stores API application backend.- Successfully scaled the mobile app in the Apple App Store, Google Play Store and the API application backend to over 3 million users worldwide.- Acted as principal architect and lead a team of developers to develop Michaels Stores daily deals web application. Application serves coupons and deals to loyal customers.- Successfully scaled the Michaels Stores daily deals web application to a peak of 5 million users in a single Black Friday rush.- Design high availability server infrastructure to support web services capable of serving millions of users on a daily basis.- Designed automated systems for automatic failover in the event of server downtime for high availability.- Created could-based systems for automatically scaling and adjust server resources based on current demand to cut costs.

Create and maintain legacy back-end web services that power social games. Maintain game web sites. Maintain web services that power retail boxed game releases.

Maintain and create high volume web sites for various advertising campaigns.

Programming and design of database driven web sites written in PHP + MySQL. Dealing directly with clients. Providing customer support to clients. Administration of in-house network, Intranet and VPN. Administration of several shared hosting servers with hundreds of live sites on each.