* Directed a cross-functional team of 10 hybrid and remote engineers and contractors across sales tools, solar equipment interfaces, solar proposals, and self-service platforms, ensuring timely project delivery and high quality standards.* Conducted regular 1-on-1s with my ICs, offering mentorship and career development guidance.* Facilitated regular communication with offshore contractors, ensuring alignment on deliverables and efficiently resolving project challenges.* Designed and implemented a Software Capitalization tool, reducing finance data collection time from two days (with three people) to minutes (handled by one person), saving over 50 hours of work each month.* Developed and maintained KPI tracking tools, successfully replacing Pluralsight Flow metrics to reduce costs, enhance visibility into engineering performance, and streamline decision-making processes.* Created an in-house NPM package to streamline code reuse and reduce technical debt, establishing a consistent user experience across projects and simplifying future development efforts.

* Developed a WebGL-based tool that enabled satellite-accurate visualizations of homeowners' roofs, enhancing solar panel placement and accuracy.* Pioneered the development of a Roof Replacement product as a proof of concept, collaborating with the Product and design teams to lay the foundation for future initiatives in the roofing sector.* Directed a cross-functional team of 4 hybrid and remote engineers across sales tools, solar equipment interfaces, and self-service platforms, ensuring timely project delivery, high quality standards, and alignment with business objectives.* Actively participated in weekly training sessions, presenting several times on new technologies, platform features, and development methodologies.* Mentored team members by providing hands-on guidance in resolving technical challenges and encouraging continuous learning, leading to improved team collaboration and efficiency.

* Expanded the development team by recruiting and onboarding 15 developers, strategically enhancing the team's capacity to handle complex projects and accelerating the development cycle.* Managed two development teams remotely, overseeing multiple simultaneous projects and ensuring that deadlines were met.* Introduced the automation of the software capitalization process, reducing manual overhead, improving financial reporting accuracy, and streamlining operations for greater overall efficiency.* Fostered a strong culture of mentorship and continuous feedback through regular 1-on-1 meetings, enhancing team performance and promoting long-term career development.* Provided strategic technical leadership during product planning, ensuring the design of scalable, compatible features and integrations that aligned with long-term business goals and existing technologies.

* Managed a department of over 25 engineers, driving key initiatives across multiple technical teams to ensure the successful delivery of complex software solutions.* Directed the consolidation of over 200 code repositories into 4, simplifying version control, improving collaboration, and drastically speeding up development cycles.* Managed a multi-million dollar engineering budget, ensuring optimal resource allocation for personnel, hardware, and software, while minimizing unnecessary expenses.* Overhauled build and deployment processes for a 12-million-line codebase, reducing build times from two weeks to one day by implementing automated testing, continuous integration, optimized build scripts, and efficient CI/CD pipelines.* Led the reduction of the release cycle from 6-12 months to 4-6 weeks, enabling the company to rapidly respond to client needs and deliver new features more efficiently.* Ensured HITRUST, PCI, and HIPAA compliance, safeguarding sensitive healthcare and PII data, which bolstered client trust and secured long-term partnerships.* Regularly presented technical updates, roadmaps, and architectural strategies in board meetings, providing valuable insights that shaped the company's long term technical roadmap and strategic direction.

* Directed a team of 12 developers, focusing on the development of key features across multiple products. Primarily responsible for ensuring the user interface was responsive and high-quality across platforms, aligning development with user experience and business goals.* Directed the UI architecture for mission-critical applications, ensuring scalable and maintainable frontend architecture, which enhanced system stability and facilitated future feature expansions.* Managed sprint planning and agile workflows, which increased team velocity by 30% and improved project delivery times.* Implemented a streamlined development environment, reducing developer onboarding time from over a week to a few hours, significantly boosting team productivity.* Led a comprehensive codebase restructuring, reducing the codebase size by 75%, which resulted in faster load times, easier maintenance, and reduced technical debt.* Consolidated 40 separate UI codebases into a single repository, allowing for improved collaboration, easier debugging, and more efficient code management.* Revised the deployment model, enabling the UI team to release features independently on a monthly basis, decoupling UI releases from the backend releases.

* Developed the front-end using AngularJS for Skeduna’s educational tool, improving the user interface and enabling students to more effectively plan their college courses.* Contributed to the development of the internal API using Ruby on Rails, ensuring seamless communication between the front-end application and back-end logic to improve overall system functionality.* Developed interactive visualizations using HTML5 Canvas, allowing students to easily see the implications of their course choices and map out their academic journeys in a visual format.* Represented Skeduna at educational technology conferences, conducting live product demonstrations and gathering user feedback that informed product improvements and increased end-user satisfaction.

* Directed a team of 8 across System Administration, DevOps, and development, fostering cross-functional collaboration to ensure seamless and efficient technical operations.* Collaborated with third-party vendors to design custom network configurations, optimizing network performance and ensuring scalability and reliability for future business growth.* Provided regular project updates and operational insights to upper management, enhancing decision-making and aligning development efforts with the company's long-term strategic goals.* Directed the strategic technology roadmap, successfully prioritizing development efforts to align with long-term business objectives and drive sustainable company growth.

* Built a custom translation interface integrated with the CakePHP framework, allowing outsourced contractors to efficiently manage translations, enhancing the product’s usability and supporting international expansion.* Developed a flexible role-based permission system, enhancing security protocols and streamlining user management for improved operational efficiency.* Created a Vagrant environment that reduced local setup times for developers from 3 days to a few hours, significantly boosting onboarding speed and team productivity.* Spearheaded platform scalability efforts by transitioning from a single-server environment to a multi-server setup with load balancers, improving reliability and reducing downtime..* Developed a message queue system using Beanstalkd, processing tens of thousands of API requests per hour, which improved API response times and overall platform performance.* Managed AWS infrastructure, reducing monthly costs by over $6,000 while maintaining optimal system performance.

* Provided critical development support during high-demand periods, ensuring the successful completion of projects under tight deadlines, which directly contributed to high client satisfaction.* Developed key client projects for high-profile companies including: - Franklin-Covey: Developed a blog and education tool that enhanced elementary-level educators' ability to create and share educational content effectively. - Corda Technologies (Domo): Contributed to the rebranding of the main website from Corda to Domo, aligning the platform’s design and functionality with its new brand identity. - Brigham Young University: Developed the Learning Management Suite, an online platform that successfully replaced Blackboard, streamlining learning and content delivery for students and educators. - Media Rain (Pepsi-co & Lays): Developed the Lays “Do Us a Flavor” campaign’s online voting platform, enabling a seamless voting process that attracted millions of user interactions.