Contract Full-stack Engineer focusing on Open edX, Django, Python, React* Upgraded Open edX plugins supporting payment integrations, enrollment workflows, custom APIs, OIDC/OAuth2 authentication. * Maintained API integrations with WordPress, Django, Angular and and several third-party learning module systems. * Implemented deprecation paths to reduce Open edX plugin codebase by roughly one third while maintaining all necessary functionality* Implemented type annotations, code self-documentation, and increased error handling across the Python codebase* Reworked, repaired, and expanded unit and integration test coverage for legacy code* Improved team tooling for development, debugging, and Docker-based deployment

Senior SW Engineer and Team Lead for Professional Services at Appsembler, a fully remote, globally staffed company offering hands-on learning experiences as a B2B SaaS business. As a team lead:★ Developed, defined, scoped, estimated, and priced bespoke solutions for clients and prospects looking to extend Appsembler's core SaaS offering based on the Open edDX open source learning platform. ★ Guided definition of work products, backlogs, timelines, processes, service offering development. Worked with the head of Engineering and the product team to reflect signals from customer and prospect needs in product roadmap.★ Represented PS team at weekly company leadership meetings and aligned our focus with overall business goals. ★ Mentored and helped hire junior and senior engineers.As Senior Software Engineer: ★ Primarily backend and cloud engineering, some front-end. Key technologies: Python, Django, Open edX, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, React/Next.js, Node, Auth0/FusionAuth, and a variety of testing and CI/CD technologies.★ Developed successful integrations for analytics, APIs, data pipelines, digital credentialing, and integrations with marketing automation, payment, CRM, learning record and interoperability, auth and other customer systems.★ Architected and implemented successful data migrations and solutions resulting in large, multi-year contracts with several key, high profile software companies.

Helped organizations in the museum, publishing, education and non-profit fields with project development, engineering, and design. Included websites and collateral materials, custom content management systems using the Plone and WordPress platforms, and web applications using the Django framework. Select projects:★ Pacific Studio, UX design/requirements workshop for private book collector custom tablet app https://pacificstudio.com/★ WEATHERHEAD Experience Design Group http://weatherhead-design.com, technical project estimation for Living Computer Museum expansion★ Roundware, a participatory location-sensitive audio platform for museums and artists http://www.roundware.org★ YES! Magazine http://www.yesmagazine.org

Developed exhibit about historic and contemporary Seattle area chocolatiers as local content accompaniment to "Chocolate: The Exhibition", on display at the Museum of History and Industry June through September 2014. Selected physical and photographic artifacts, wrote label copy, prepared, and laid out the artifacts.

Collaborated on Flash development, graphics and audio production, animation, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation for seven digital/electronic interactive exhibits for the Museum of History and Industry. Saw projects through to installation and final hand-off of assets and documentation.

Co-founded employee-owned cooperative and certified B Corporation "triple bottom line" (people, planet, profit) business, growing out of and often serving organizations involved with "local living economics," climate activism, and community-building in Seattle. Co-developed company strategy and internal processes for policy governance, meeting structure, technical best practices, salaries, hiring, services offerings—including innovative practices for (and learning the limits of) consensus-based decision-making, gamification of compensation and priority-setting, and an internal sub-coop for shared home-cooked lunches! 🍛 Lead Plone CMS development efforts, delivering custom Content Management Systems for more than 30 clients in non-profit, business, government and educational sectors. Produced and implemented graphic designs for client websites and organizational identity.Coordinated project work with internal team of seven member-owners and variety of contractors, maintaining clear communication with clients, managing deliverables, implementation, and technical strategy using Agile/Scrum processes. Adopted and integrated new tools and practices for Plone and Python development. Improved team practices with server configuration management, caching, code efficiency, theming techniques. Select website/CMS project clients:★ ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability USA; ★ Center for Ethical Leadership; ★ University of Washington Advancement (main website); ★ Travel Portland; ★ North Cascades Institute;

Marketing, tour product development, and European/North American partnership development for responsible travel and ecotourism firms and projects in Cameroon, USA/Indian Country, India, Canada, and Russia. Created promotional multimedia materials, an early handheld device travel tool, digital video, websites, brand identity and logo materials for clients.

Designed interfaces for multilingual financial application and programmed in HTML, Javascript, Perl, and JSP with an internationally diverse team of consultants.

Developed medical business to business web applications using MS SQL Server, ASP/IIS, HTML.