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- Highly successful backend engineer in a variety of industries, including at various stages: startups, acquisitions, and established businesses.- Python/Django is my preferred stack, deployed to any cloud or legacy environment.- Ruthlessly proficient at testing and breaking code, a surprisingly cunning ability to find edge cases, security issues, and potential reliability concerns.- Flourished in both solo and in team roles.- Experienced at API design and testing of both modern GraphQL and standard REST API design, development, documentation, go live, and continued support.- A keen ability to plan, build, deploy, and support the right custom tool to automate a critical piece powering a business.

Austin, Texas, Us

- Develop and maintain custom software tools to enhance and optimize prescription eyewear orders and customer service inquiries.- Primary software developer maintaining the fulfillment chain. Integration includes Shopify and multiple international 3PL's, powered by a legacy nodeJS software stack, complimented by some Django tooling.- Completed several migrations between 3PL's.- Member of the team that successfully migrated the company from Brightpearl ERP to Netsuite

Dallas, Tx, Us

- Maintain and add new features to CAF's RallyPoint tool.- RallyPoint provides pilot and aircraft compliance tools for the entire CAF organization.- Django backend with a bootstrap 4.x based frontend.- API integration with FormStack.

Des Moines, Iowa, Us

- Developed, deployed, and maintained a custom CRM powered by Django/GraphQL.- Integration of call center functionality with Twilio Flex.- Hooked several important features into a legacy AS/400 system.- Developed and maintained an enhanced testing suite for the entire project.- Handled deployment and all related AWS devops tasks.

East Troy, Wi, Us

- Django developer at a startup creating a service for managing dairy farms.- API design and development using Django REST Framework.- Initial provisioning and deployment of containers, content and databases hosted on Amazon Web Services.- Engineered local development environments and automated their deployment.- Unexpectedly developed a deep understanding of the lifecycle and milk production habits of the typical dairy cow.

- Technical lead, executed and lead all technical aspects of the project until the site was acquired by Ebates (now Rakuten) in 2013, successful exit in 2014.- PHP Web Developer. Created custom CMS framework that served pages to 20+ million unique visitors during the week of Black Friday.- System Administrator. Managed all aspects of the build up towards Black Friday. Scaled the systems to handle the massive amount of traffic we received at peak times. (thousands of page requests/second at peak times)- Built systems to manage delivery to large email delivery list (950k+ double opt-in verified addresses)- Created in-house fulfillment solution. Thousands of shirts and other prizes required fulfillment and low-cost postage. - Built analytics collection system that fully integrated into our CMS framework for data warehousing.- Developed universal deep link generator for reliable affiliate link creation using networks such as Commission Junction (CJ), LinkShare, Amazon, and SkimLinks.- Created custom REST API that powered our iOS and Android apps.