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Austin, Tx, Us

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.● Rebuilding models with validations and implementing Test Driven Development.● Replacing front end ActiveAdmin DSL views with Haml.● Replacing ActiveAdmin controllers with standard Rails Controllers.

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 Rails community. I primarily worked on basic features for the BusyConf website during my internship. My internship was over two summers, the first starting right before I went to college at CNU.● 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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