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Annapolis, Maryland, Us

TradeVector is a financial technology firm that operates the TradeVector Receivables Marketplace, designed to facilitate the purchase and sale of B2B trade receivables, manage working capitaltransfers, asset warehousing, and portfolio reporting.➤ Reporting to the CEO and Founder, responsible for leading technical solutions, architecture design and development efforts to support the launch of a fintech company, while providing leadership to contractor teams and 1 direct report.➤ In collaboration with the CEO, established business goals and built a technical roadmap. Drove the development of organizational processes, tools, documentation, and collaboration using Jira and Notion to ensure best practices.➤ Architected a full-featured event-driven trading engine with auditing capabilities, designed to scale, and led 100% test coverage on critical system components using Ruby, Rails, Redis, and Sidekiq technologies.➤ Led design, development, and build of the front-end UI and administrative interface utilizing Angular, Typescript, HTML CSS and SCSS. Deliver oversight and support to engineers to ensure continuous development and improvement.➤ Designed, managed, and owned the platform infrastructure, CI/CD pipeline as well as monitoring and alert tools using Heroku, New Relic, Pager Duty, Sentry, and Papertrail technologies.➤ Partnered extensively with contractor teams across code reviews, pen-testing, and data integrations.

New York, Us

ButterflyMX, founded in 2014, is a property technology company specializing in smartphone-based access control solutions. Their products are utilized in over 15,000 multifamily, commercial, student housing, and gated communities worldwide.➤ Reported to the Senior Vice President of Engineering and collaborated closely with leadership to align projects with business objectives.➤ Owned and led cross-functional projects, ensuring seamless coordination across multiple teams and technologies.➤ Migrated select components of the Rails monolith to microservices, improving the reliability and scalability of the access control ecosystem.➤ Designed and implemented solutions using GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Python, and Turbo to address complex technical challenges.➤ Deployed and managed services on AWS, leveraging cloud infrastructure for high availability and performance.➤ Optimized system architecture to support robust integrations and expand the capabilities of the access control platform.➤ Contributed to and upheld best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment pipelines.➤ Worked in an agile development environment, continuously iterating and delivering value to stakeholders.

Odessa, Florida, Us

Funnel is a CRM and automation platform for the multifamily industry. In 2022 Funnel completed $36.5MSeries B, achieved 115% YOY revenue growth, doubled its employees from 40 to 80, and launched theindustry’s first non-profit 501(c)(3) dedicated to fair housing.➤ Reporting to the Senior VP of Engineering, responsible for leading technical solution design, architecture, and strategy, for a property management system, providing daily leadership to up to 4 direct reports and 4 indirect reports.➤ Led the development of new integrations, features and products that increased revenue and market share utilizing a mix of Python, Django, Kubernetes, AWS, Go, GraphQL, Fast API, React, and JavaScript technologies.➤ With a focus on reliability, availability and high performance, re-engineered and transformed external system integration. Using microservices, Python, Fast API, and GraphyQL, led migration to a structured façade. Normalized data responses, established ownership boundaries and increased team throughput.➤ Implemented data modeling and database design principles and successfully re-engineered organization data modeling and storage to enhance coherent and reliable data. As a result, increased overall system stability.➤ Engineered and implemented event-driven patterns to enable enhanced cross-team communication. Improved the integrations team processes and collaboration with cross-functional teams, advancing efficiency and performance.➤ In partnership with the CTO and Project Managers, produced 20+ hours of education content for engineers and fostered increased intra-organizational information and capabilities sharing that significantly reduced systemic risk.➤ Lead engineering teams in feature development, testing, and deployment across the full application stack. Increased overall system stability, and established workflow processes to guide and empower 12 software developers.

Arlington, Va, Us

Bloomberg Industry Group is an affiliate of Bloomberg L.P. and a source of legal, tax, regulatory, andbusiness information services. Bloomberg has transformed the landscape of business and financialintelligence, creating solutions on the leading edge.➤ Serving as a Technical Lead, analyzed and built ETL processes for enterprise grade datasets in order to implement Machine Learning (ML) backed cross-platform solutions. Built a real-time news platform that enabled writers to push stories and related updates throughout the day. This was the first mobile friendly news platform for the organization.➤ With a focus on Agile methodologies, implemented modern web development tools and frameworks to advance team performance including Ruby, Rails, Python, AWS, Sage Maker, AWS Glue, JavaScript, and Vue.js technologies.➤ Built a search function prototype using Elastic Search that enabled a highly intuitive search for the platform. Used customer feedback to train ML algorithms using AWS Sage Maker, Glue, and propriety ETL process to refine results.➤ Delivered guidance, mentorship, and coaching to junior developers, driving high performance across team members. Collaborated with domain experts to improve workflows. As a result, improved product functionality and usability.

HMC established a reverse supply chain for laptops and electronics, fostering technology access and equity through unmatched pricing and customer service. Based in Cockeysville, MD HMC employed 10 people and generated $1M in sales within 5 years of business.➤ Led the strategic vision, business strategy, marketing, product design, development, and customer service, establishing a $1M reverse supply chain company that partnered with major retailers in the U.S. and worldwide.➤ Established partnerships with enterprise retailers; purchased returned electronics; solved component level issues, and resold products. Provided affordable and reliable alternatives to buying new retail laptops and electronic devices.➤ Designed, developed, and implemented a custom CRM and CMS. Built a Ruby on Rails JSON API to handle and synchronize multiple sales channels. Established a custom online storefront utilizing JavaScript and Angular.js➤ Drove marketing efforts across social media and additional online marketing channels establishing a reputable brand. With a focus on customer-centricity, established exceptional customer service generating 100% client satisfaction➤ Recruited, hired and trained a team of 6 across the fundamentals of computer repair. Fostered growth and empowerment through teaching and mentorship, ensuring best practices across development, design and testing.

➤ Consulted regularly with client on new features, progress, and technical issues➤ Engineered projects to support international partners➤ Coordinated with multiple product owners across varying domains➤ Created dynamic full stack applications➤ Worked with team to fulfill project requirements from conception to production

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

➤ Developed and taught a course to teach USPTO developers about Ruby best practices➤ Created engaging material that conveyed the fundamentals of the Ruby programming language➤ Gave an introduction on using Ruby to communicate with JSON and SOAP APIs➤ Walked developers through setting up their first Ruby on Rails application➤ Demonstrated common tools such as Rake and RSpec➤ Helped developers transition from languages such as Java and C++

➤ Collected stakeholder requirements and organized into documented user stories➤ Design and developed a data intensive application➤ Implemented machine learning algorithms to solve complex business problems➤ Setup and maintained a NoSQL database➤ Wrote clean, well documented code in python, ruby, and javascript

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

➤ Implemented design, including experimentation, and multiple iterations➤ Worked in a fast paced, team oriented, agile environment➤ Helped project managers communicate with stakeholders regarding project requirements➤ Converted project requirements into user stories and sprints➤ Worked with entire stack to ensure consistency in all parts of the application

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

➤ Worked efficiently with design teams to implement itterations of the website's design and functionality➤ Wrote custom software solutions to assist in the management of the contributor network➤ Migrated SQL database to new servers➤ Advised management on how to proceed with scalability and growth in mind➤ Rapidly developed prototypes of new features to confirm viability

Hunt Valley, Maryland, Us

➤ Worked closely with company executives to collect software requirements➤ Researched industry and interviewed employees to accurately model domain➤ Developed software in a team oriented, agile environment➤ Ensured software was meeting client expectations with weekly demonstrations of progress➤ Wrote applications that drastically increased communication channels in organization, boosting productivity

➤ Managed daily operations in fast paced team environment➤ Setup new revenue channel by developing custom process to extract valuable materials from recycled units➤ Enhanced revenue stream by developing process to test, refurbish and recycle laptop batteries➤ Developed analytical tools and processes that had a massive impact on growth and revenue

➤ Learned the foundations of web development through collaboration with experienced software engineers and project managers