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Was the founding engineer and built Reforge from the ground-up.After PMF was established, I hired and managed the eng team around me.

Hired and managed up to 12 people. Increased users 3x. Increased subscription rev 3x. Managed launch of mobile apps.Introduced advanced site monitoring and analytics.Facilitated transformation of codebase to standard Rails. Moved company to git/trello/gmail. Started standups, retros, brownbags, weekly planning meetings.When I coded: Ruby on Rails, AWS and Heroku, Redis, MySQL, React/ Javascript, SCSS

Venues don't know much about their users, but they will.Went through Techstars 2014 and then raised about $1M total.Built and launched product. Deployed in 5 of the largest venues in the UK.Hired and managed 5 people.Coded about 10 hours a day (Ruby on Rails, React, Postgres. iOS [Swift/Obj-C] and Android).Managed and created new product.Presented to clients.Member of board.Spoke at conferences.

Early software engineer when Eventbrite was 10 people and only 3 engineers in 2009.Technical lead, or had a hand in, almost every user facing web feature from 2009-2011.Started the mobile team and launched Eventbrite's first iOS app, Entry Manager.Was on the hiring board of most of the engineering team, looking for culture fit, technical strength, and ambition.Teamed up with the CTO to internationalize the site, including the conversion of hundreds of legacy templates into a modern template framework while simultaneously emulating the legacy templates' functionality.Worked closely with monetization, integrating with third party payment providers, reconciling records, and proper logging.Wrote lots of unit tests, automation tests, and documentation.Gave presentations on technical topics to colleagues.Peer reviewed other engineer's code and introduced best practices.Mentored junior developers.Represented Eventbrite in conferences, meet-ups, hackathons, fund raisers and other public events.Learned a great deal about startups, moving fast, and growing technically.

Moved the company from a proprietary legacy system to an object-oriented class structure using PHP5 features complete with DB models, class libraries, organized file structure, and interfaces, extended, and abstract classes. Had tons of fun doing it.