Payments - Identity and fraud detection

Early developer and maintainer for the Burner Wallet, a web-based crypto wallet. Created Solidcoin, a company which creates anodized aluminum coins with QR codes to redeem cryptocurrency. Created smart contracts for BuffiDai, the currency used at ETHDenver 2019. (3000 participants, over $100,000 transacted in a weekend).

Lead developer for the internal incubator program at Cognizant. Took ideas from inception to MVP in 6 month sprints. Built a supply chain simulator to aid in predictive capabilities. Played an important role in shaping the accelerator’s structure and design. Mentorship, leadership, process improvement and design thinking in addition to software.

Personal consulting company working with Silicon Valley startups and y-combinator companies. Built large-scale Hadoop clusters, implemented graph databases, and optimized website load times by an order of magnitude.

Tutor students on web development with Ruby on Rails. Teach at Railsbridge.org, and during weekly mentor groups.

- Architected, implemented, and maintained a 100 machine Hadoop cluster used for data science purposes- Performed statistical analysis of large data sets in R and Python (SciPy, NumPy, Pandas)- Developed web application using Django/Python to allow clients to access visualizations of the aforementioned analysis.- Integrated with APIs used to gather external sources of data (NOAA for weather data, ESPN for sports data etc) and APIs to facilitate automated communication with clients (Email, sms etc)

- Developed a web application which interfaces with demographic APIs and produces informative and eye catching charts and statistics based on a customer's CRM- Designed and implemented a service which detects and extracts rich data from large files with possibly unknown formats, and contents (100 GB+)- Leveraged Hadoop to write distributed jobs which calculate statistics over billions of data points

- Developed deep knowledge of mobile CDMA spec- Created interface between mobile data streams to a SQL database using C#- Created data storage format for use on embedded linux communication devices

- Developed a prototype for a low cost, wireless entertainment system designed for an MRI room - Designed application in C on embedded Linux to allow technician to wirelessly communicate and customize patient's entertainment experience via a user-friendly GUI - Collaborated with engineering students from other disciplines and liaison engineers from Philips Provided leadership and organization to streamline team's work flow

- Learned entire American Express system architecture during a 10 week internship. - Became a subject matter expert on a new technology investment initiative and gave tutorial presentations to business partners