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Austin, Texas, US

Charlotte, NC, US

Austin, Texas, US

Designed and implemented a suite of mobile applications to assist technicians and account managers in all aspects of the irrigation maintenance process (iOS, Android, Sencha Touch, Cordova)Designed and implemented a web application for administering Tapigo organizations (AngularJS)Helped design and implement a backend NoSQL datastore and REST API (Java.

Dallas, Texas, US

Led the rebuild of the Senior Care seeker enrollment flow as a modern micro frontend using Fastify + Next.js + React + GraphQL. This rebuild resulted in a significant increase in delivery speed (moving from a single weekly deployment to tens of deployments per day), allowing the team to quickly roll out bug fixes, A/B tests, and other new functionality..

Pflugerville, Texas, US

Seattle, WA, US

Led the development of an internal bot detection and mitigation toolset used to protect customer facing web applications from abuse by bots and scrapers (Node.js, Redis, Fastly)Worked with internal infrastructure and platform teams to ensure the performance, observability, and resilience of business critical customer facing traveler applications (Node.js.

Seattle, WA, US

Enhanced in-house A/B test readout infrastructure to support custom user segmentation and conversion tracking, user funnel analysis, and bot filtering in test readouts. Added support for A/B testing of transactional and marketing emails, including the measurement of open and click through rates and subsequent user activity on the site. (Hadoop.

Seattle, WA, US

Member of the Unicode ”special ops” team, a group that was responsible for identifying, analyzing, and fixing unicode/i18n issues in HomeAway’s core technology stackCo-led the engineering effort on the rewrite of HomeAway’s internal content translation tool. Designed and implemented an optimized translation algorithm (patent pending) that sped up the.

Seattle, WA, US

Technical lead on the sunsetting of a legacy property manager API and dashboard (.NET)Built an internal customer feedback dashboard used to visualize and identify positive/negative trends in customer feedback (patent pending) (JavaScript)Implemented numerous improvements in backend Search and Inquiry technology stacks. (Java, Solr)

Austin, TX, US

Technical lead that helped manage the core platform team and define the company’s technology roadmapHelped design and implement the Mobile Web Client, a JavaScript engine used to run @hand applications on various smartphone platforms (iPhone, Android, WP7)Designed and developed the Solution Technology package, a collection of extensions used for Barcode.

Austin, TX, US

Austin, TX, US