Responsible for leading a team of highly skilled and professional engineers in developing a state-of-the-art candidate assessment platform. Our platform is designed for scalability, performance, and high availability. We have an event-based system that utilizes a service oriented design. Our services are primarily built with Elixir with some also using Ruby. We use various data sources including PostgreSQL, Redis, and DynamoDB. Our system is hosted in AWS and uses auto scaling to optimize costs and performance. We utilize an agile development methodology to maintain high efficiency in our development process. We use continuous integration and automated testing to allow us to deploy features on demand with zero downtime.

Acquired by Paradox.ai in August 2021Responsible for leading a team of highly skilled and professional engineers in developing a state-of-the-art candidate assessment platform. Our platform is designed for scalability, performance, and high availability. We have an event-based system that utilizes a service oriented design. Our services are primarily built with Elixir with some also using Ruby. We use various data sources including PostgreSQL, Redis, and DynamoDB. Our system is hosted in AWS and uses auto scaling to optimize costs and performance. We utilize an agile development methodology to maintain high efficiency in our development process. We use continuous integration and automated testing to allow us to deploy features on demand with zero downtime.

Responsible for designing and developing a high availability, service oriented system. Path.To is a Ruby application backed with multiple Java services. All services are individually scalable and hosted with Amazon Web Services. We use Hadoop in order to calculate a score for a user for each job in the system using a constantly evolving algorithm. Data is made available using a combination of SimpleDB, S3, and Memcache. An API has been designed and developed in a REST style. Authorization is handled using OAuth2. We use CoffeScript for much of the Javascript generation in the application as well as SASS for the CSS. I have recently taken on the responsibility of developing an iOS application utilizing RubyMotion.

Sonar is an application that allows business users to share what they are doing and see what is going on within their company. The site is written in Ruby on the Rails framework. The database is PostgreSQL. A mobile app was developed for both the Android and iPhone platforms. The application was sold in June of 2011.

As an engineer on the Talent Exchange I have been responsible for building the application from the ground up. Talent Exchange is a service developed primarily Java taking advantage of the Spring MVC framework. We host the site in the Amazon cloud infrastructure and have multiple environments. Talent Exchange leverages MySQL and SOLR for our database and search technologies. We develop using agile methodologies. I created a REST api and documentation along with implementing the infrastructure to support it including OAuth and OpenID. I also used SOAP with SAML authentication to integrate with Taleo's various Enterprise systems. I integrated with various other partners to help expand the Talent Exchange functionality utilizing a wide variety of technologies including REST, OAuth, OpenID and SOAP. I have extensive experience working with the Facebook OpenGraph API through my work in creating the Talent Exchange Facebook application. We utilize a number of other technologies on the back-end including, but not limited to, Scala, Ruby, Hudson, GIT, Android, and Appcelerator.

I was the Senior Software Engineer on a team with five other engineers. I was responsible for the maintenance of an existing SAAS ColdFusion application along with the architecture and development of new features.

5/06 - 6/08 – Lead Software Engineer of Corporate Edition, Aloha, and Beyond.Corporate Edition was an enterprise level applicant tracking system written in:ColdFusion, Java, SQL, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.As lead of Corporate Edition I was responsible for:• 15 other software engineers• Translation of product specification and architecting of new solutions• Product deployment to more than 50 localesI was also in charge of making Corporate Edition fully configurable through the product’s interface which allows us to deploy our product with no customization. I was able to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines while maintaining a strong core product. Towards the end of my time at Vurv I was named lead of the core suite of products consisting of Corporate Edition, Beyond, and Aloha - an onboarding/offboarding application. As lead of the three products, I was tasked with creating a more seamless interface for users of the three systems. 3/04 - 7/06 – Lead Software Engineer of BeyondBeyond was an Enterprise level web based vendor management system that was built as an extension to Corporate Edition. This product was written in ColdFusion, Java, SQL, JavaScript, CSS, Web Services, and HTML in a framework developed in-house based on the MVC designpattern. While working as the lead on Beyond, I was responsible for:• Architecture and development of the product• Estimation of work and assistance in development of the product specifications• Initial launch of the product and 2 major releases of the product