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Leading software engineering at a sustainable/socially-responsible investment data fintech SaaS startup. Joined as first employee, built out 1.0 version of product from early MVP stage, hired engineering team, coordinated security policies/procedures and SOC2 compliance process, led cloud migration onto AWS. Contribute to overall business and product strategy, software architecture and hiring plans.

Co-ownership of P&L, overseeing software engineering, technology budget, and performance marketing spend. Development and execution of new strategies for significant cost savings and client retention.

Bridge between marketing and product teams. Worked as part of a small cross-functional group within the marketing & growth team to plan features, organize development into sprints and iterate our projects to best reach data-driven performance goals.Ownership over the signup process, including developing and optimizing all stages of user signup and onboarding: running A/B tests to improve conversion, building features to educate and empower new users, and deploying translations to best address target markets.Responsible for ensuring non-technical teammates have the best possible internal tools: developed several widely-used internal apps, including a custom inventory planning solution to seamlessly connect our physical retail store with the thousands of merchants who use our platform around the world.Won an internal secure code review/penetration test contest. Additionally responsible for systems reliability as part of the on-call pager rotation, debugging unexpected issues with our server environment on Amazon AWS outside of business hours.Broad range of regular experience with different technologies, including Python, JavaScript, Django, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, MySQL, PostgreSQL, React.js, Chef and Ubuntu Linux.

Web application development at a dynamic interactive agency. Responsible for many high visibility/high traffic projects developed for national brands.Experience with web application development, mobile app development, Wordpress plugin and theme development, and the development/consumption of RESTful APIs to integrate with enterprise applications, social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), Amazon AWS and other services.Security admin role: responsibility for reviewing code, auditing and monitoring live sites for security vulnerabilities, as well as collaborating on hosting, systems administration and deployment policies to ensure the security of hundreds of separate web sites and applications.Awarded the company's "Do It Live" award for success in diving into complex projects.Experience with: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, Knockout.js, Laravel, AWS, RedHat Linux, PCI DSS