Brandon Shar Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Lead engineering efforts in Finance EngineeringStrategic Leadership• Lead and architected a vendor transition for caterer payments to meet key business objectives• Oversee all technical work on all aspects of financial systems including pay ins, pay outs, and tax implications• Created and Maintained Quarterly Technical Roadmap presented to finance stakeholders including the CFOCollaboration & Mentorship•Technical Leader for Financial Engineering domain•Mentor and hold regular 1:1’s with Senior developers•Collaborate with other Staff+ Engineers on org-wide initiativesCross-functional Impact•Serve as a localized expert for Domain Architects and business stakeholders •Work directly with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and internal clients to establish milestones and the upcoming roadmap•Context switch between strategy and execution as needed

Brooklyn, New York, Us

Brooklyn, New York, Us

Tech: React, Ruby on Rails, Laravel, Django, SQL, REST Apis, Handsontable, Rspec, InertiaJS, AWS Lambdas, DynamoDB● Lead development for both team augmentation and client projects in various tech stacks● Manage, develop, and maintain various full stack software applications for long-term clients● Created and currently maintain the open source Ruby on Rails adapter for InertiaJS, anincreasingly popular pattern for full stack rails/react development● Develop and strategize on internal company applications including Machine Learning/AIstrategies to coax new, valuable information from existing energy data● Architect client projects across multiple languages, infrastructure, and dev methodologies● Review code and mentor developers across various stacks● Pioneer new strategies and packages to improve internal development

Boston, Ma, Us

Tech: React, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, Rspec, React Testing Library, Enzyme, PostgresLead and manage a team of 5 developers meeting frequently with Product Managers and Designers to determine team goals and initiatives

Boston, Ma, Us

Tech: React, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, Rspec, React Testing Library, Enzyme, Postgres● Architect and develop ezManage, a SaaS style offering from ezCater that allows caterers to manage their own catering business via ezCater’s platform● Design GraphQL schemas within Ruby on Rails● Refactor and architect React components alongside GraphQL fragments

Tampa, Florida, Us

Tech: Laravel (PHP 7), VueJS, Lumen, MySQL, Less, Pusher, Redis, AWS, PHPUnit, Dusk● Architected and developed the entirety of the Rannko application in a Laravel based LEMP stack● Designed Rannko’s relational MySQL database● Architected and developed two Lumen micro-service APIs for handling review crawling andcustom short links● Architected and developed a VueJS front end that consumes its entirely REST API-based backend● Deployed the application on a Forge provisioned LEMP stack in AWS● Worked with co-founder to quickly implement new features and designs● As of February of 2019, I’ve transitioned into a hands-off advisory role

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Tech: Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sass, Heroku, Rspec● Led transition to using React components and API style endpoints● Developed in and maintained a Ruby on Rails stack● Regularly deployed via Heroku● Led a team of four junior to mid-level developers on the “Growth” team in making andmonitoring changes to impact the join rate of new businesses● Consulted with other senior developers on development best practices and new tech initiatives● Created and monitored A/B tests and advised on the design of the underlying A/B testingframework● Worked alongside the product team to determine Growth direction● Reported weekly team progress to VP of Engineering

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Tech: Flask (Python 3), SQLite, Ionic (Mobile), PyUnit● Architected and developed Flask (Python 3) REST APIs to facilitate communication between robots and warehouse data centers● Maintained and redesigned a procedural Python 2 script that was fundamental to the robot’s operation● Mentored and reviewed other developers to assist in unifying the company’s multiple codebases● Designed and developed an Ionic / Angular 2 based mobile application to allow human handlersto monitor the robot and improve underlying warehouse data● Re-designed databases for better data storage and data analytics● Reviewed and helped architect code for other development teams● Led the development of an onboard API and UI for a 3D product scanner designed to improve therobot’s ability to identify products and provide 3D photos for the warehouse.

Tampa, Fl, Us

Tampa, Fl, Us

Tech: Laravel, Ruby on Rails, Lumen, MySQL, Algolia, VueJS, Ionic, Redis, PHPUnit● Maintained and transitioned a Rails based PHP application in a legacy codebase● Migrated a non-upgradeable PHP 5.3 application to a modern PHP 7 Laravel stack without anyfeature development downtime● Developed a VueJS frontend consuming its own API-based backend● Architected and led development on all major tech initiatives● Maintained and developed a Ruby on Rails application to serve a separate public-facing mobileapplication● Transitioned to an Algolia based document database to handle rapid querying on a full text socialmedia articles● Architected and lead development on three Lumen based microservice REST APIs todecouple/upgrade services from a core SaaS application, including backend development andrelational databases● Architected and developed two Ionic / Angular based internal mobile applications for monitoring/ reporting internal statistics and their related APIs● Led occasional lunch-and-learns on programming topics such as test driven development, variousframeworks, and object oriented design● Updated and modernized an abandoned ORM that was too tightly coupled with the framework toremove or upgrade● Developed the company’s first Coding Standards / Style Guide for backend development● Optimized and re-designed relational database architecture to decrease query time and better suitbusiness needs● Worked with product teams to determine tech team direction● Switched development team to TDD and Code-review based development to reduce bugs andspeed up total development time● Promoted to Chief Technology Officer / Principal Engineer● Reported to Director of Technology as Lead Engineer and directly to the CEO as CTO / PrincipalEngineer

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Developed applications and websites from conception to launch for a variety of small clients using MVC based PHP (Symfony 2), Javascript / jQuery, and HTML/CSS

Tampa, Florida, Us

Developed and maintained internal and external PHP applications, both modern (PHP 5+) and legacy (PHP 4)

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy