Consulting on application development projects for small companies.

Key Accomplishments:Successfully managed three cross-functional teams: Engineering, QA, and Implementation.Engineering Responsibilities:- Led the development, enhancement, and maintenance of the leading subscription app on the Shopify platform.- Mentored and coached developers to improve agile practices, resulting in increased efficiency and faster development cycles.- Emphasized observability and monitoring to ensure the reliability and performance of our software.Team Management:- Managed a team of Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to drive product development and innovation using best Agile practices.QA Responsibilities:- Oversaw a remote Quality Assurance team, transitioning them to automated regression testing using Jest, thereby increasing testing efficiency and coverage.- Managed a team of QA Engineers dedicated to ensuring the quality and reliability of our software.Implementation Responsibilities:- Led the customization of Shopify stores to meet individual customer requirements.- Successfully managed a hybrid remote team located in India and New York, fostering collaboration and productivity.- Supervised Implementation Engineers responsible for implementing custom solutions for clients.Skills:- Proficient in TypeScript, React, Postgres, and Google Cloud.- Strong leadership and team management skills.- Expertise in agile development practices and observability.

Engineering Stack: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, React, AWSKey Accomplishments:- Successfully managed three cross-functional teams: Kajabi Payments, Member Checkout, and Commerce Admin.- Led the development of various microservices and administration screens within the Ruby on Rails ecosystem.Team Management:- Successfully hired and managed Engineering Managers and several developers within the teams.- Recruited, hired, and managed a Staff Engineer working across all three teams on the Commerce team.- Led the Agile scrum process for all three teams, ensuring efficient development cycles.- Provided essential support to the product management team for project creation, scoping, and ticketing.- Developed growth plans and promotion plans for all direct reports to foster career advancement.- Managed and tracked developer time weekly for annual capital expenditures.Kajabi Payments Responsibilities:- Engineered a custom payment gateway using a white-label version of Stripe, implemented as a Rails 7 microservice.- Managed a team composed of 1 Engineering Manager, 1 Product Manager, and 6 Engineers dedicated to the Kajabi Payments project.Member Checkout Responsibilities:- Led the migration of member checkout functionality from a monolithic architecture to a modernized microservice using Rails 6, which was later upgraded to Rails 7.- Managed a team comprising Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and Engineers throughout the transition.Commerce Admin Responsibilities:- Designed and developed administration screens to facilitate customer usage of the new Kajabi - - - - Payments product, utilizing Rails 6 within the monolith architecture.- Managed a team with Product Managers and Engineers responsible for Commerce Admin.Skills:- Proficient in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, React, and AWS.- Strong leadership, team management, and agile development skills.- Expertise in microservices architecture and project management.

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Engineering Stack: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, VueJS, Nuxt.js, Swift, Redis, AWS- Source and hire all technical candidates and third-party vendors- Manage three engineering teams: API, GUI, and Mobile- RESTful APIs for website, kiosk GUI, iOS, and Android apps- VueJS GUI for kiosks- iOS and Android applications- Custom e-commerce platform: Order Management System, Product Information Management System, Inventory Management System- Scaled teams from 7 developers to 28 developers- Worked with multiple off-shore development teams to build reusable projects- Planned and oversaw large Ruby on Rails upgrade- Worked with outside teams to accomplish core business objectives- Performed annual PCI SAQ-D certifications- Manage CI/CD for API deployments

Engineering Stack: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, AWS- Sourced and hired all technical candidates and third-party vendors- Scaled team from 3 developers to 10 developers in six months- Complete refactor of financial systems- Upgrades to all aspects of the custom Content Management System - Refactored most of custom e-commerce system: Order Management System, Product Information Management System, Inventory Management System- Built custom merchandising tools for Food52 Shop- Worked with off-shore development team to build projects- Participated in all Executive meetings- Worked with all internal teams to accomplish core business objectives- Performed annual PCI SAQ-D certifications- Assisted Financial team with annual third-party financial audits with third-party verification- Release Manager for all code to staging and production environments

Engineering stack: PHP, cakePHP, MySQL, MongoDB- Source and hire all technical candidates and third-party vendors- Manage JITR team of up to 12 developers with Agile methodologies- Team architects, builds, and maintains proprietary e-commerce system: e-commerce API for website and iOS and Android apps; Order Management System; Product Information Management system; Inventory Management System; flash sale scheduling tools; financial and inventory reporting; sync with third party financial system, NetSuite; and all third party feeds- Release Manager for all code to staging and production environments- Perform annual PCI SAQD certifications- Assist Financial team with annual third party financial audits- Managed rise of company from < $1M to just south of $100m in sales- Planned and managed move of hardware and cloud servers from RackSpace to AWS

Engineering stack: Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Resque/Redis, MongoDB, node.js, nagios, Google Analytics, daily stats emails- Managed team of 10 developers, including contractors- Sourced and hired all technical candidates and vendors- Implemented and iterated Agile engineering management process- Upgraded developer deployment process: moved team to git SCM from subversion, self-contained development environments RDBMS, key/value store, document database, Rails environment, and node.js all run local on developer machines; AWS hosted staging servers mirror production environment for testing of infrastructure issues before deployment- Vetted cloud platform vendors and helped move Indaba Music infrastructure from terrestrialservers (@Rackspace) to cloud servers (@AWS)

Engineering Stack: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL* Managed 2 developers* Built Ruby on Rails e-commerce platform for grass fed beef company* Integrated with NetSuite for credit card processing and CRM* Wrote custom Rails API for NetSuite* Executed award winning marketing campaign for grass fed beef companyhttps://vimeo.com/9674784* Managed building of web properties for Honeywell and Tripfilms

* Managed 12 developers* Managed building of custom applications for a variety of pharmaceutical companies* Most of the code was in PHP, but some Java* Interactive elements created with Flash using ActionScript 2.0/3.0* Created custom build tools for processing designer PSDs into functional Flash objects

Engineering Stack: .Net, ASP.Net, MSSQL, Javascript* Implemented blogging and commenting platforms for high profile media: Hearst and Jim Cramer

Engineering Stack: PHP, MySQL* Managed 2 developers* Re-engineered e-commerce platform for Cuisinart: PHP, MySQL* Built CMS for daily financial newspaper from Cantor Fitzgerald: PHP, MySQL

Engineering stack: Java, JSP, J2EE, Oracle* Built user interface for mobile and web

* Senior technology hire for consulting firm* Built first e-commerce platform for Cuisinart parts and accessories: Perl, MySQL* Built assorted applications for Cantor Fitzgerald: PHP, MySQL