Mentor and enable a team of engineers to provide best in class public APIs and integrate with partners. Collaborate with teams across Pluralsight to connect their data and APIs in order to curate the full experience our customers and partners need.

Individual contributor on the Platform-as-a-Service team.- Maintain and expand our GraphQL API (main public API for Pluralsight)- Promote a data-first mentality across teams at Pluralsight (to make more data available for the API)- Transform and aggregate data on ingress via custom Kafka consumers- Transform and aggregate data on egress via SQL- Research and build integrations- As a Principal, I also provide technical leadership and mentoring within the team

Supported several teams in the following ways:- Teach skills / Mentor- Teach and promote good software engineering practices- Expand the reach of our small architecture team- Partner with managers and directors to help them make strategic decisionsDuring this time, I worked closely with:- Data Platform (Scala, Kafka)- Content Platform: local team creating a unified content data model (TypeScript, Kafka)- Content Platform: teams in Ukraine focusing on Content Tooling- Video Services: local team responsible for video course player, clip view data, video encoding and much more- Tutor: a team focused on providing coding sandboxes in various environments via k8sOur team collaborated with engineers throughout the company to maintain our Engineering @ Pluralsight document, a statement of engineering best practices, and how we all agree to build products at Pluralsight.

Worked mainly with JavaScript, TypeScript, Postgres, Cassandra, Rabbit, Kafka, React on the following projects:- The logged-in home page- Video course page- Search & browse- Guides (built from scratch, both the author tools and the learner experience)Also contributed to subscription experience (Angular), maintenance and destruction of our monolith (C#), and publishing course usage data to rabbit (C#).

People & Management - Evolved/built a rockin’ team - Hired UX - Report meaningful data to biz (dev is not a mystery)Infrastructure & Optimization - Apache performance tuning - MySQL Slave DB syncing issues - Nginx microcaching - Optimize images by ~ 50% - Profiled and tuned code - lowered app server response times by ~ 50% - Distributed Job Queue backed by Amazon SQS - Massive constant refactoring to save an antiquated system. Using ~ 10% of our time ongoing, never stopping the biz from moving forward. Big improvements to SLA stats. - PCI compliance. VPN with multi-factor auth. Regular system scans. - Docker, CoreOS - In progress. Working to make environments consistent and horizontally scalable. - Deployed services on Docker/CoreOS including ElasticSearch, ImageSquish, Jenkins. - Migrate from custom ORM to Doctrine2 - Manual DB changes to Liquibase migrations - Office Networking: From consumer wireless router to enterprise class stuff and wiring the office. - Office NASProjects - Full redesign of entire site & new mobile app. Hired UX for this. - Search & Browse, full new shopping experience powered by ElasticSearch. - Steal Points (loyalty program) - Coupon Codes, Gift Cards, Employee Discounts - Unit Testing, Jenkins automated testing - Listrak integration - automated despite lacking API - Fraud detection

Built and help to envision a new category in the fundraising space as well as a social platform for running. Anyone can "earn" donations by running, walking, skiing, swimming, etc.* Hired and managed a development team* Found and hired Santiago Basulto - one of my greatest accomplishments in life* Full stack development of Athlete.com, platform decisions, UI, backend development, infrastructure, everything* Modern UI stack as it made sense for us - Compass/SASS, Grid Layout, RequireJS, jQuery* Built API for mobile integration and managed mobile development leveraging Django and Tastypie* Infrastructure design and management (EC2, ElastiCache, Route53, CloudFront, RDS, S3, SES, Load Balancing, Deployments, Config Management)* Customer service, fundraising, anything that needs to be done. It's a startup and I love it!* Solid development methodology (unit & selenium testing, github PRs and code reviews, ultra fast deploys, ability to deploy often)Notable technology innovations* Robust feed framework (think Facebook news feed, or just sign up for Athlete.com and check it out)* Developed an easily managed and powerful caching framework* Browser side image cropping and scaling (upload a profile image and drool at how fast it is!)* Image manipulation service shared to the open source community (https://github.com/dmcquay/imagesquish)* Live server screenshot comparison testing framework

* Led migration of community product to ATG Commerce platform* Key developer in enabling community driven content to websites (e.g. questions, answers, reviews, photos). * Lead developer for ODAT technologies (steepandcheap.com, whiskeymilitia.com, etc.) * Part of small team that added first Facebook integration at Backcountry.com. * Mentored several new employees who became excellent contributors. * Other positions held at Backcountry: Software Engineer I & II

Developed software for home inspectors targeting PCs and Windows Mobile devices using the .NET framework. * Implemented report generation * Created lightweight & flexible data access layer * Implemented logic for synchronizing data between several mobile devices and PCs * Designed and implemented secure mechanism for charging customers for use of the software * Was often consulted for review of designs and best practices, especially relating to data storage

Worked in the Information Systems Division to support existing applications used by distribution centers worldwide. Spent most of my time programming in C, SQL and Korn Shell. * Upgraded data transfer applications for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance * Found and fixed error in shipping method algorithm, potentially saving the company millions of dollars

Our task was to provide web solutions and evaluation tools for Student Life at Brigram Young University. During my employment here, we performed a massive upgrade of our services, using Joomla! as the core of our technology.I was directly involved with the replacement of existing applications. This involved finding good existing solutions, possibly modifying them to meet our needs, or developing solutions from scratch.

This office was responsible for managing server access throughout campus and worked in conjunction with Network Security which responsible for keeping the network secure. I worked in both capacities. My main responsibilities/accomplishments were... • Proposed and implemented an information system that dramatically improved our documentation • Created a web crawler that scans BYU’s intranet for sensitive data to comply with federal law • Took initiative to improve the system used for tracking virus activity • Assisted in mitigating and preventing network attacks and viral outbreaks • Managed network accounts on Exchange, NetWare, eTrust & Cisco systems