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Washington, DC, US

The Command Line Podcast is a program I produce independently discussing professional engineering, public policy and technology, and in-depth technical news. I also host the program and interview guests from the software industry, independent creators, and leaders in free software and open source.

Bethesda, Maryland, US

Lead a small team of onshore and offshore developers building point solutions and an operations platform to help consumers buy, sell, and maintain their cars without the hassles of traditional auto sales. Drove the adoption of Typescript, teaching the rest of the team directly and through example. Wrote two backend frameworks to supplement Lambda and.

New York, US

Worked on Site Reliability and Innovation. Built tools and processes for dev ops and in support of machine learning. Joined to help some colleagues I had worked with previously get the organization through a critical technology migration project. Wrote a data and file copying tool, using Rust with AWS Data Pipeline, to support the migration and the.

Waltham, MA, US

Supported and managed seventeen direct reports, including performance management, compensation planning, regular feedback, and career coaching. Collaborated with a team of two full time and four part time managers to support a tribe of forty software developers. Collaborated on quarterly roadmaps and objectives including writing regular reviews for upper.

Waltham, MA, US

Supported and managed twelve direct reports, including performance management, compensation planning, regular feedback, and career coaching. Collaborated with a team of five full time managers to support a tribe of sixty software developers. Helped design and launch an organizing framework between squads and the tribe in order to support better focus on.

Waltham, MA, US

• Vistaprint Digital is the group within Vistaprint responsible for developing, delivering and supporting the digital products to help small business owners succeed.Work on tools and infrastructure for dev ops. Agile.
• Writing a configuration and deployment tool inspired by tools like npm and cargo. Built infrastructure services running in a Kubernetes cluster to support development and testing. Services include a test environment.
• One of the top contributors to Vistaprint Digital's new website builder, an ambitious single-page app built with React and its supporting microservice built with node. Coded extensively on both the front and back end.
• During an aggressive, marketing driven deadline to bring the new website builder to market, worked on a domain name product, a microservice built with the Spring Boot framework with a React front end. Transitioned to.

Washington, DC, US

• The Open Technology Institute is a high profile program in the world of technology public policy that utilizes a unique multi-disciplinary approach to improve equitable access to communications technology.Responsible.
• Transformed the technology staff into an effective team as its very first director by creating a clear organizational structure, providing a plan for career advancement, and working with staff through regular.
• Successfully completed a $2.8M federal grant for the development of version 1.0 of Commotion Wireless, a multi-platform open source communications toolkit, by implementing and improving project management best.
• Increased funding for Measurement Lab from $250K a year to more than $800K for 2014 by directly improving the operational maturity of the core technology, expanding the team from one technologist to five, and.
• Helped the organization safely transition leadership from startup to mature, sustainable organization through working closely with the rest of the management team to understand and mitigate risks, communicate with.
• Strengthened the programming skills of the technology staff by leading group study sessions and brown bags, sharing years of practical programming experience, securing resources, and reviewing code.

Worked on “Our Nation’s Attic,” an exploration and demonstration of the importance of works of the government in promoting creativity and economic activity through the creation and documentation of an American Pale Ale, an open source beer.

Washington, DC, US

• Learning Objects is an established social learning software-as-a-service product that integrates with the leading learning management systems (LMS) used by higher education institutions. Learning Objects provides.
• Increased the speed of delivery new product features from an average 6 weeks down to 2 by evaluating current agile project methodologies, selecting and training on Scrum, and leading the engineering team in adopting.
• Improved responsiveness of the product by a factor of three by reviewing database logs and execution plans from PostgreSQL, optimizing SQL queries, and re-factoring low level database access code.
• Made ongoing performance monitoring and improvement possible by writing a log analysis and reporting application in Python and Django so that dev ops, other senior engineers, and product management could understand.
• Prepared the product for future scaling needs by evaluating alternative data storage options, selecting the Cassandra NoSQL data store, and writing the necessary new code in such a way that no one else's code on the.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Brivo Systems disrupted the space of access control by introducing a web interface to control access to facilities so customers could manage and monitor their physical security from anywhere. Brivo combined their web.
• Successfully managed a complete staff turnover in the first few months on the job by learning the existing code and single handedly maintaining it in production while hiring an all new team.
• Reduced problems in production from a frequency of once a week to less than once a quarter by reviewing logs with production support staff, statically analyzing code, and quickly turning around necessary fixes.
• Increased the performance and capacity of the control and configuration server that supported the hardware products by a factor of four by thoroughly re-writing that code, continuously testing through that whole.

US

• Qbit was a small research and development startup that was seeking to revolutionize data compression by mining innovative ideas from the physical sciences and proving them out through a close collaboration between.
• Helped secure early stage funding by working hands on to produce and demonstrate first viable compression prototype, translating research outputs in MATLAB and Mathematica into Java and C code.
• Secured first licensees with potential for revenue by showing off the latest research developments through live technical demonstrations as part of business development both on the road and in the office and answering.

• B2eMarkets transformed the space of online procurement by pioneering the use of reverse auctions, sealed bids and other competitive bidding and response models coupled with a suite of performance monitoring and.
• Saved several weeks worth of engineering time during a major update to the product by designing and developing a set of features, the interfaces for a respondent to submit their bids and replies to a procurement query.
• Delivered a new decision support module by writing a third of the code, mostly the mathematical algorithms, and efficiently working through a near total re-write partway through the project in response to early.
• Completed a product module, for supplier performance assessment, by investing more in early design and development, iterating quickly, working directly on the most challenging coding tasks, and supporting a dedicate.

marchFirst was originally USWeb, a national software consulting firm focused exclusively on bringing businesses to the web with a focus on e-commerce. The DC practice also had a complementary focus on online collaboration applications.Started as senior engineer then promoted in 1999 to Director. As a senior engineer, worked on all aspects of the software.