Geode is a boutique software consulting firm that specializes in partnering with technology companies to launch new products. As Head of Engineering I manage a small team of FTE engineers, distill and evangelize engineering and architecture best-practices across all client projects, and consult for clients as a principal engineer and architect.

Developed architecture and some infrastructure and analytics prototypes for M2GEN’s data capture platform.

Brought the Skillz cloud gaming platform from an R&D project that I built the prototypes for alone to a beta product launch with a team of 10 of the company’s most senior engineers. Listed inventor on Skillz’ patented cloud gaming architecture.

Collaborated on architecture for the long-term vision of Nike personalization by coordinating engineering leaders and high-level ICs across 5 distinct verticals, leading domain driven design workshops, and generating design documentation to be used as reference in implementation. Organized tactical hackathons to rapidly de-risk approaches and vet different parts of the solution stack for our use-cases.Led technical efforts on Nike's platform transformation, engaging with engineering leaders and high-level ICs from 10+ verticals across the org in a cascade to help define platform capabilities and align consultants with the teams they were augmenting to maximize transformation engagement value.

Helped establish patterns for event-sourcing architecture. Managed all infrastructure and developed devops practices. Helped in requirements analysis around patient calendaring and led design and implementation. Worked primarily in kotlin and terraform. Deployed kafka-integrated services on ECS.

Designed and implemented novel RFID scanning architecture for capturing store inventory. Partnered with a team of 30+ to deliver backend features in Scala on AWS. Had a heavy focus on devops and scaling.

Led solution design for a team of 15+ engineers in collaboration with other teams toward a global rollout of our inventory management solution at scale in the cloud. Attended weekly community meetings to glean and share best practices across organizations, and bring those learnings back to planning for my own team's long-term vision.

Working primarily in Scala, developed cloud-based solutions in AWS to bridge the gap between on-location devices and in-cloud infrastructure, with a heavy focus on continuous deployment.

After the Cox Automotive acquisition of DealerTrack and Dealer.com, moved to a foundation-focused team working across solution groups to deliver platform-focused software at scale in the cloud. Worked in primarily Java with some Clojure.

Midway through my time as a Java Programmer, Cox Automotive acquired the company I was working for. I retained the same position.

Brought on full-time at Dealer.com

Worked on a service oriented web app undergoing consistent refactoring in efforts to circumvent anti-patterns and code smell in a heavily framework-reliant code base.

At Pie I worked on a monolithic legacy application working with primarily homespun solutions. Without reliance on bloated frameworks I learned practical design patterns and performant implementation methodologies.