Through the course of my tenure as a Principal Engineer at Odyssey, I had to fill in a lot of roles in the engineering- and product teams. Due to the small size of the organization, I worked up and down the organization from writing code to working with the CEO on organizational efforts. Some highlights include,- Software Developer: - (Project) Digital Wallet Funding: Built reusable system to fund the digital wallets for parents in Idaho's program that supported distributing ~$50MM - (Project) cXML-based eCommerce Punchout Integration: Worked closely with team to implement reusable eCommerce Punchout integration, initially supporting 2 major partners - Build admin management tools for internal support teams to better support parents and vendors - Implement various small-scale improvements to the system- Engineering Team Lead (team of one other principal engineer and contractors, both timezone-local and timezone-distant) - Implemented iterative, situation- and priority-aware process improvements - Managed growing and integrating off-shore, Ukraine-based team - Worked closely with contract project manager to move towards flow-based, reactive project work- Chief Architect - Led design reviews of internal implementations - Worked with team to improve consensus-based code review processes - Helped establish processes for deciding on "good-enough" levels for time-sensitive tasks - Built extensive system- and process-level documentation- Technical Product Manager - Participated in discussions with State Liaisons (particularly in Iowa) to build guidelines for implementations - Worked with internal team to deeply understand and document law- and legislature-based requirements - Led engineering team's implementation design strategy

Helping various companies with their product-development efforts up and down the role spectrum, from individual contributor to management- and product consultant.

Originally joined eSpark Learning on a short-term contract to train and mentor team on improving Elm skills, working on and improving design of existing codebase.After initial contract, was kept on over next 3.5 years, filling many roles as needed in a small, fast-moving company and high-performing team:- continued to work with team on improving skills around maintainable coding practices through the codebase, including Ruby on Rails, Elm and Typescript;- worked with management around streamlining product development processes;- filled in as interim engineering manager during transition period between engineering leadership;- worked with managers across several transitions as advisor around team-focused improvements.

Working with team to evaluate Elm as a potential internal programming language. Trained a small team of developers while building a proof-of-concept application.

Was originally brought on to helped teams with transition to serverless, cloud-based architectures shifts, including testing strategies and patterns for microservices.Over the period of engagement, transitioned to work with product team on project management improvements with a focus on shifting mentality and product development tactices from "9 teams of 1" to "1 team of 9".

Built application to monitor transactions on the ethereum blockchain and send notifications based on configured addresses. Technologies used: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, web3 library.

Hearken (formerly Curious Nation) is an audience-driven journalism platform that helps storytellers partner with the public to create more relevant and sharable stories about their communities.As cofounder, I was responsible for and active in a wide range of early-stage startup activities.Financial and OperationsCreated and managed financial models through two, subsequent fundraising rounds, including presenting models to potential investors. Led the creation and negotiation of convertible debt notes for these fundraising efforts.Was responsible for early-stage bookkeeping activities, managing accounts receivables and ongoing forecasting and analysis.Created system for managing and analyzing sales funnel, including potential future impact on finances.Worked with customer success consultants to enact a RAG-status based prioritization mechanism for optimizing customer renewals.Focused on establishing a “remote-first” company culture, supporting easy integration of new employees.TechnicalLed development of core reporting system and embed widgets, converting existing single-site capabilities into a multi-tenant highly-scalable platformSupported onboarding and ongoing maintenance for customer usage

sabbatical, writing books, being awesome, advising startups and looking for my next thing.

- Managed technical due diligence of purchase of PowerReviews.- Worked with teams in both Chicago and San Francisco on integrating existing Viewpoints system with PowerReviews technology.- Established effective cross-city communication and project activities.- Led project to update mobile write-a-review improvements.- Developed innovative in-store ratings/review prototype.

- Advised child companies (Viewpoints / Modern Comment / Built In Chicago) on technical and business goals.- Worked with entrepreneur-in-residence to define and build prototype of mobile walking tour iPhone application.

- Stepped in as acting CTO to help Viewpoints stabilize its system / processes.- Developed prioritization / sequencing process to funnel disparate business requests into small development team.- Wrote code implementing new features for Viewpoints system.- Managed and upgraded servers on AWS.- Did technical due diligence to help with acquisition of PowerReviews in July, 2014.

Hugboard is an online card system that allows you to gather virtual cards in order to support or cheer on a friend.

Both private, in-house and public training for Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

We provide technical advising to non- and less-technical entrepreneurs and founders of startups.

MercuryApp helps you make better decisions and more effectively manage change by tracking you and your team's feelings over time.

I provide in-house, team-based trainings that focus on improving core skills in software development, such as modular/object-oriented design and test-driven development.

Spent 2009 traveling around, pair-programming with anyone and everyone.initial info: http://www.coreyhaines.com/tour2008tour blog: http://programmingtour.blogspot.com/