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Seattle, WA, US

Bellevue, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

• Joined the CEO/CTO co-founders to build an engineering team around an early-stage, pre-MVP web application (F#, JS)
• Spearheaded recruiting and hiring campaigns, established of employee benefit programs and negotiated of office leases
• Established a technical strategy to address platform evolution, expanding operational concerns and technical debt
• Introduced scalable engineering processes and tools in support of the mandate to deliver high-quality software on schedule, successfully leading to market entry and initial customer acquisition.
• Contributed as lead software developer, and managing a demographically and experientially diverse team of developers.

Seattle, WA, US

• Technical leader for a team dedicated to the development, modernization, maintenance and operation of ingestion and ETL workflows for hundreds of disparate third-party sources spanning real estate (MLS), census, tax.
• Devised two key performance optimizations resulting in a 25x speedup of the MLS data import process, establishing a dramatic competitive advantage within the industry regarding the lead time of MLS data availability.
• Demonstrated that an impending migration of the central, single-master Postgres DB powering our exceptionally high-volume site (top 150 by traffic in the US at the time, per Alexa Traffic Ranking) across several major.
• Responsible for establishing and promoting engineering best practices (e.g. coding patterns, design and code reviews, alerting and monitoring as first-class development concerns, SLAs, operational playbooks, etc.) and.
• Served as the technical complement to product and team management during weekly issue triage/backlog management and team quarterly goal planning, and coordinated the creation of a long-term team technical strategy road.

• Contributed as the team’s most senior developer and acted as the principal technical advisor on web application feature development, defect analysis, third-party integrations, systems engineering, as well as regulatory.
• Drove the specification, documentation and continuous improvement of software development life-cycle processes
• Developed tools and infrastructure to support development, automated testing and deployment processes
• Managed long-term projects, setting milestones, tracking development progress and ensuring effective communication between developers and providing code review

• Led Linux-based web application design, development and operation, driving the company’s growth from a small technology startup into a highly profitable business and leading to a multimillion-dollar acquisition
• Took the lead role in supporting an in-depth pre-acquisition technology audit, closely collaborating with the senior management of the acquiring company and third-party merger and acquisition consultants
• Designed and developed innovative web-based image viewing and manipulation technologies, including technology allowing for the real-time manipulation of high-definition medical images and video streams leveraging a.
• Contributed systems-level expertise to the creation of a reliable and cohesive technology infrastructure, from hardware evaluation and validation to stability and performance monitoring and systems administration
• Established and maintained product and corporate security infrastructure, protecting the confidentiality of sensitive business and personal information in compliance with industry best practices, state and federal.

• Responsible for the operation, maintenance and support of disparate laptop, workstation and server systems (running Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and IRIX) and networks spanning multiple labs
• Developed custom Linux console and web applications and provided ad hoc maintenance of legacy software (Perl, C, Java)
• Designed and implemented a custom, cross-platform, centralized LDAP user account management and logon system