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Remote, US

Remote, US

New York, New York, US

• Developed several gRPC-based micro services using Golang & Protobuf, and exposed via a GraphQL API.
• Evaluated, integrated, and built several solutions using third-parties, including risk management algorithms, checkout & billing systems, authentication, e-sign, and policy document storage.
• Created several reusable Vue.js components for the insurance application flow, and helped generally with building out the consumer experience on the UI.

New York, NY, US

• Honey is modern social Intranet platform targeted towards SMBs and fast-growing startups.
• Responsible for service availability, infrastructure architecture and orchestration, product roadmap planning, software lifecycle and on-time delivery of roadmap, deployment, third-party integrations, risk management.
• Honey heavily utilizes AWS services, Ubuntu Linux, and is built primarily on Python/React.

Brooklyn, NY, US

• Architected, provisioned, and managed multiple HA cloud deployments built on a traditional LAMP stack including varnish and memcached.
• Lead development on multiple iOS projects including [adult swim] which was among the pioneers of TV Everywhere, and which launched as a top 10 most popular Entertainment app in the App Store.
• Consultant to a Fortune 500 company over several projects, providing technical review and guidance, and entrusted as an interim product manager to see through to successful delivery.

New York, NY, US

Fully re-engineered the website of new acquisition bigstockphoto.com, which lead to a 8x increase in photo purchases within months of launch. Largely responsible for both backend and frontend codebases. Also developed a tax portal to help both domestic and international contributors file tax documents.

New York, New York, US

• Oversaw software product life cycle: definition, planning, competitive analysis, development, quality assurance, launch, and iteration.
• Responsible for all server and software architecture and administration including network appliances, server performance tuning, security hardening, and best practice development methodologies.
• Researched and negotiated strategic partners and licensing agreements.
• Helped lead successful repositioning of the GameBattles brand.

New York, NY, US

Engineered a premium podcast subscription service offering access to Air America's full archive of on-demand radio broadcasts. The system included an automated stream-encoding pipeline, and generated over one million in new revenue in its inaugural year.

• Created the most widely known website for competitive online gaming, GameBattles.com
• Oversaw a globally disparate team of over 400 people consisting of developers, designers, writers, administrators and referees.
• Acquired by Major League Gaming after exponential growth seen in only three years with over 30 million page views a month and over 430k registered users.

New York, NY, US

Led development of a federated authentication system including RBAC, as well as a streaming service for independent musicians called New Music Network. I also helped to create several CMS tools used for administration of a centralized web-platform, serving over 1200 radio station websites nation-wide, and with over 11 million unique visitors a month.

• Various web and application development utilizing the following technologies: ASP Classic, Visual Basic, C++, Java, XML-RPC, XSLT, COM, ADSI, SQL Server.
• Performed UNISYS mainframe operations, network administration.