Technical leader for a team of 6 developers, focused on 3rd party integrations.* Acted at an engineering manager for my team, performed 1:1s, gave feedback, set quarterly goals.* Built integrations with JumpCloud MDM, Rippling, AWS Code Commit, Datadog, Checkr, BambooHR.* Setup metrics and Datadog dashboards for nightly compliance jobs to monitor success rates, duration, and throughput.* Started a weekly Team Leads meeting to discuss best practices and architectural design.

Maintained on retail accessory widgets and product bundles and the backend systems for populating the data.* Reduced team’s on-call burden by ~25%. Reviewed 400 previous tickets to determine common root causes then refined FAQs and SOPs used by support agents to avoid the need to open a ticket. Build diagnostic tools to simplify on-call’s debugging process for remaining tickets. * Took over team’s grooming meetings and reduced the meeting time in half while improving the level of detail on stories.* Mentored an intern project to find products for testing. Developers were able to generate datasets for manual testing in 33% of the time, and automated integration tests’ pass rate increased from 93% to 99%. The intern accepted the full time offer at the end of the summer.* Winner of the CETech MTN Peak Excellence award in October 2021

Responsible for providing technical guidance to engineering and product teams. Reviewed roadmap of future development in order to provide the business with accurate delivery estimates. * Helped develop an RFC process to vet and share technical design details across the engineering department.* Generated $344K of revenue in 6 months with Shopify integration. Coordinated with contractors and served as technical reviewer.* Avoided $57k/year in SalesForce licensing fees by building a Slack bot to allow employees to access merchant data.

Responsible for leading a team of 6 developers. Provided time estimates and task sequencing for product managers. Reviewed and tested code. Ran sprint ceremonies. Conducted 1-on-1s, provided mentorship, and designed on-boarding plans for team members. * Started the Boulder office which added 80+ employees in Colorado. * Planned integration with Shopify, advocated to outsource the work, then served as technical reviewer for external development team.* Built a service to sync merchant accounting data into QuickBooks Online using Rails and Sidekiq in 4 months. Enhanced service to sync merchant data to Xero in 3 months.* Doubled the number of supported client libraries by generating them from API V3’s OpenAPI documentation.* Dockerized applications to allow for successful move to Google Kubernetes Engine. * Provided predictable deliverability by consistently delivering >85% of sprint commitments.

Responsible for designing and delivering features. Groomed tickets and helped clarify requirements. Worked with new QA team to develop testing processes.* Created design patterns and early implementation for API V3.* Provided faster and more precise search results by indexing merchant data in Elasticsearch.

Responsible for implementing features in Ruby on Rails and Node.JS applications. Reviewed and tested code.* Sped up merchant imports building tools to join multiple CSV files with credit card and customer data.* Sped up merchant exports by using Node.JS’s streams to join data from MySQL on Mongo.

Responsible for providing guidance and best practices to a team of 10 new Drupal developers. Provided guidance on module selection and customization to achieve functional requirements. Developed custom modules for new functionality.

Contract mobile developer for an early stage startup. Developed an Objective-C iPhone app to access a Rails backend created by another contractor. App delivered on time and on budget.

Responsible for transitioning maintenance and development from ZivTech to their internal developers. Built tools to identify inefficient pages and optimize site performance.

Taught Drupal development courses to groups of 10-30 people.

Responsible for migration of data from DoSomething.org's Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7. Architected an automated process for migrating data and configuration.

* Chosen as maintainer of the Drupal 7 File API in recognition of my work improving Drupal’s file and image handling.* Maintained several widely used modules: Migrate, Audio, ImageAPI, ImageCache, Translation Overview, Active Translation, etc.* Worked with other developers and made significant contributions to their modules: Views, FileField, ImageField, Internationalization, Devel, etc.* Presented _The Future of Files and Media_ at DrupalCon 2009.* Presented _Getting It Into Drupal With Migrate_ at DrupalCon 2012.

* Built a fully internationalized (15 language) Drupal site for the corporate communications department of a multinational athletic apparel company. This resulted in several internationalization modules that were released back to the Drupal community.* Built an extensive intranet site for the basketball division of another multinational athletic apparel company.* Migrated a clients site from a custom ColdFusion site into a Drupal 7 based e-commerce site.* Used jQuery to add dynamic functionality and an enhanced user interface to Drupal sites.* Worked closely with clients to gather requirements, with designers to determine which designs could be implemented most efficiently and with themers to fully realize the designs.

Responsible for building and maintaining 300+ Drupal based artist websites. Supervised a team of offsite contractors. Mentored onsite, junior developers.* Migrated code from a private Subversion repository to GitHub. This provided a more flexible development workflow and the ability to properly review code before it was merged into the platform.* Developed a process for deploying code and database updates to 300+ sites.* Built a JavaScript library providing tight integration of the Ruby on Rails, e-commerce system with the artist’s sites.* Developed numerous custom modules for individual artist’s sites.

Responsible for migrating the Food, Health, and Beauty & Style sections from Vignette to Drupal. Lead the team implementing Drupal performance optimizations.* Built a custom module to populate the health section with 15,000 XML documents from Healthwise’s encyclopedia.* Worked with operations team to deploy ApacheSolr and replace a Google Search Appliance for site search.

I was one of the original founders of the group.

* Redesigned the station's website, replacing static HTML with a Drupal based CMS. * Build system to dynamically create podcasts for each show on the schedule.* Released the code for the radio station show schedule as the Station module, my first module.

* Developed a module to record, process and display the usage statistics for Drupal projects: * Wrote and optimized MySQL queries for multi-gigabyte data sets.

* Developed Phlickr, an open source PHP 5 library for accessing Flickr's API. * Co-authored the book with Rob Kunkle which guides readers through incorporating photos from Flickr into a website or project using Phlickr.View the book on the publisher's site: http://www.apress.com/9781590596128