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Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

* SME for Monitoring using New Relic* SME for Edge (Compute/WAF/DNS/etc) using Cloudflare* SME for IaC using Pulumi* Built FCI (Failed customer interaction) implementation for SLA reporting and system monitoring* Matured application routing with the implementation of an application load balancer* Various tasks around the maturation of various infrastructures and practices.

Austin, Texas, Us

* First Engineer Hire* Evaluated multiple data vendors for quality and product alignment* Built CICD in GitLab with merge to deploy that included code, infrastructure, and data migrations* Used Pulumi to build out infrastructure as code in AWS* Built automated batch pipeline to load data from vendors in S3 (Data Lake) into Redshift (Warehouse) then into a highly optimized Aurora Postgres RDS cluster for use in the API* Built RESTful services and a common typed library that used typescript to describe request and response type contracts. The API was by Aurora RDS Postgres (dozens of tables, most with 100’s of millions of rows) and almost all requests were sub 500 ms.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

* First full-time in-house engineer hired on Impact team. Impact was built as a POC/MVP by overseas contractors.* Impact is a reporting and audience activation tool that reports on web-based KPIs (Impressions/Visitors/Conversions) for articles on the web that customers are targeting with Cision's content search tool. These KPIs can be broken down via audience demo/firmographics. These can be used to build segments of targeted visitors and activate them in an online ad campaign.* Cataloging tech debt and tackling it along with API consumer support, and product features.* The tech stack includes a Java/Spring Boot API for reporting services backed by Postgres and RedShift.* Designed and implemented the ability to add multiple partners to extend our reach into the EU.* Improved the reporting to the URL level with ranked URLs (previously only at the search level).

Lincoln, Ne, Us

* Provided a direct in building back end and services for an e-commerce platform* Built yeoman generators for creating shared node modules, and restful services.* Built a framework in GCP (Google Cloud Platform) for generating and publishing marketing feeds using PubSub, Datastore, and Cloud Functions.* Worked cross-team to formulate a plan to better implement microservices and leveraging backend forfrontend and partitioning the monolithic web application to be more resilient and scalable.

* Part of the Catalyst team that built the node/react framework that was responsible for serving almost all the company's web applications. It was a plugin-based server that out of the box provided SSR (Server Side Rendering) for react.js, logging and monitoring, and other features.* Implemented distributed trace using OpenTracing, Jaeger, and Haystack for existing and new node applications;* Added the ability to generate node services using the Catalyst platform;* Porting the Catalyst to the Expedia internal application platform/library allowing teams in the Expedia Group to use Catalyst.* Championing getting Catalyst open-sourced, and speaking at various conferences including Node Summit 2018.

Edmonton, Alberta, Ca

* Built a POC RedShift warehouse using AWS Lambda and Firehose.* Improve session-based reporting to better align our reporting to third-party tools such as Google Analytics and Omniture.* Worked to elevate code and process from a scrappy startup to a more foundational and scalable platform solution.

* Built a data ingestion pipeline utilizing AWS Lambda, Kinesis, Redshift, and ElasticSearch to ingest multi-tenant hotel inventory from disparate APIs and sources.* Designed and built an ETL framework to productionize data from multiple sources (Neo4j, Redshift, etc) into multi-tenant data marts used by customer-facing APIs.* Took POC AI and machine learning experiments and turned them into production-ready applications that served either as internal micro-services or components in the data pipeline

Austin, Tx, Us

I manage the eOps group which manages the AWS infrastructure for RetailMeNot's web site and supporting backend for mobile. The group's responsibilities include shared services like logging, monitoring, auditing, configuration, and secretes management.

Austin, Tx, Us

I am the senior full-stack developer in the Labs Group at RetailMeNot. We quickly build ideas and get them to market. These can range from native mobile apps to full blown web sites. We work with the latest tech and test the waters for new products.

Austin, Tx, Us

Worked on the data team. Utilized the existing beacon framework to track realtime user monitoring and web site performance. Automated WebPageTest to monitor web site performance and created dashboard to visualize live performance data. Took part in building out a distributed ETL job scheduling and management platform.

Akron, Ohio, Us

Built a DMP (data management platform) and multi-tenant multi-channel marketing platform for email, web-publishing (mobile and desk-top), display ads, and SMS. Used in the retail, hospitality, and cable/msp companies.

Beverly Hills, Ca, Us

Worked on the Monetization and CMS teams

Fairlawn, Ohio, Us

Built a web-based BI/Reporting tool used by parts departments in over 25,000 auto dealerships that did anonymous comparative reporting on 2 years of historical inventory and sales.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Wrote documentation for managed DirectX framework

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