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Driving innovation at the intersection of politics and tech. I wake up every day with a mission to enable campaigns to focus on winning—effortlessly leveraging the latest and greatest tech has to offer.

Oceanport, New Jersey, US

Engineer #5, first dedicated backend engineer

Startup focused around capturing analytics signals to help sales agents capture and close on leads.* Deployed on Digital Ocean Kubernetes* Built lighting fast analytics platform in Elixir Phoenix. Delivered dynamic JS library utilizing precompiled binary templates.* Created custom JS library utilizing

New York, NY, US

• Enabled Discovery Squad to improve engineering culture and boost user engagement.
• Developed features, such as hiding items you’ve seen recently, to enhance user engagement within the feed.
• Identified need for experiment monitoring & worked with VP of engineering on a company wide plan. Created a library for monitoring Optimizely experiments across Grailed, utilizing DataDog for reporting.
• Collaborated with the product team, conducted user interviews and launched experiments to increase user engagement.

• Built an edtech booking platform centered around live interactive lessons.
• Rails 6 backend with Postgresql & Redis. React Frontend powered by websockets in the live meeting room.
• Deployed on Kubernetes, with ELK stack for monitoring & anycable-go for scaling.
• Utilized Postgresql 14 Multiranges to build a custom calendaring solution.

Austin, Texas, US

• Empowered employers to efficiently hire during the global pandemic.
• Developed a cutting-edge, WebRTC-based platform in Django for facilitating online interviews.
• Analyzed user interaction data to drive improvements, adding features such as chat, onboarding, and support to reduce friction and enhance user experience.

Chicago, IL, US

• Assisted enterprise merchants, such as Airbnb and Uber, in processing payments smoothly through PayPal.
• Designed and implemented an offline algorithm to determine the most effective timeouts for IdempotentPayment API’s. Presented the methodology and results at RubyConf 2019.
• Improved transaction accuracy by integrating with PayPal’s webhook system on behalf of merchants.
• Led feature development of Google Closed Loop Token integration: ‘Buy Online Pickup In Store.’

• Startup contracted to build a greenfield product centered around aggregating lead information across real estate segments.
• Serverless NodeJS application backed by Postgres. Written with Knex, Objection & FeatherJS.
• Integrated with Twilio for call forwarding
• Deployed to AWS Lambda

Reston, VA, US

• Led the architecting and rebuilding of ApartmentShowcase.com
• Delivered a high-performing website, with a focus on speed and efficiency, utilizing a combination of front-end and back-end technologies such as Elasticsearch, mapbox-gl-js & Ruby on Rails 5.
• Led Scrum meetings and worked closely with the product manager to prioritize tasks, resolve obstacles, and translate business requirements into technical deliverables.

• Startup eCommerce website co-founded with Ryan McGeary and centered around selling products with payment plans. The application has since processed over one million dollars in payments.
• Integrated the application with Stripe over StripeJS.
• Engineered the process with Stripe to distribute payments over time.
• Designed the Rails models and implemented with postgres.
• Added OAuth 2.0 login to streamline security.

US

• Originally I was hired as a part-time consultant to work on a front end search interface. Months later I was brought back on to redesign an older rails project. I was responsible for:
• Upgrading Rails from 3 to 4.
• Transporting a database from MySql to Postgres.
• Redesigning relationships within the Postgres database.
• Implementing JSONB fields in Postgres.
• Moving tests from RSpec to Minitest.

I was contracted to work on MyLights. MyLights allows people to quickly tag events or highlights in different sports.

Leesburg, VA, US

• I was one of two to be permanently hired from a pool of over one hundred applicants. Over forty applicants were interviewed. My boss and mentor was Ryan McGeary (LMGTFY co-founder). He is well known in the Ruby on.
• Studied and developed with Ruby on Rails, Javascript Ajax, REST, webhooks, and database migrations.
• Introduced to Test Driven Development (TDD). I now apply this principle to my code.
• Designed, built, and implemented an Arduino project. Wrote code in C++, wired & drafted logic board.

Computer Science Studies

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