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San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

2023 – Present: Building a team of engineers to develop HR apps and help SMBs with their hiring, retention and compliance needs.2022: Supported the growth engineering teams responsible for employer onboarding and pricing/tier selection.

San Francisco, California, US

• Grew team from 5 engineers to 10 (out of 22 total), expanding technical mandate from a single greenfield project to all of FOSSA's UI and product engineering.
• Defined customer use cases, market positioning and technical implementation plan to productize several early-stage R&D initiatives, including vendored source code identification, internal artifact tracking (multi-stage.
• Partnered with Sales and Marketing to assess customer needs via pre-sales requirements gathering calls, as well as performing direct account support/co-development for major enterprise accounts ($2M+ total ARR).
• Collaborated with Design and Product to identify high-friction customer workflows via user research and serve as the primary technical stakeholder for a major redesign effort.
• Wrote several of FOSSA's standard interview sessions; conducted interview training and office hours for junior interviewers in addition to > 100 candidate evaluations.

San Francisco, California, US

• Led design and implementation of novel matching algorithms, analysis pipelines and serving sub-systems for a new product — vendored source code identification. Major initiatives included:
• Redefining algorithmic approach in response to early customer feedback on Type I vs Type II errors and interpretability of results.
• Migrating data processing logic from SQL into Go workers operating over custom, in-memory structures for >1000x speedup on customer workloads.
• Establishing Go monorepo and language standards (with co-owner).

Mountain View, CA, US

• Maintained (as part of a 4-person team) a backend service that processes trillions of images per month.
• Drove implementation on a multi-engineer project to implement a data pipeline for evaluation/improvement of statistical localization algorithms (C++, SQL).
• Performed large-scale data mining/analysis of potential ground truth datasets for consumption by several partner teams (C++, SQL).

Mountain View, California, US

• Managed 6 person team; including inter-team collaboration and technical direction.
• Primary owner/drove implementation on several key projects, including:[ ] Video media asset optimization and processing pipeline; which reduced monthly bandwidth costs by 75% (HTML5, ReactJS, Python, Golang, ffmpeg)[ ].
• Conducted over 150 technical interviews to expand Emerging Markets Engineering from 6 to 27 full-time engineers (and 6 interns), as well as established a standard process/flow and question bank.

Campbell, CA, US

• Primary engineering maintainer for open-source Foundation framework (top 15 project on GitHub); creator of Foundation for Email (the first open-source, responsive framework for HTML email).
• One of three full-time maintainers for 20+ web properties and SaaS applications (Ruby, Rails).
• Supported designers with front-end code for clients such as SAP, JCPenny and Samsung (CSS, jQuery).
• Developed and taught various paid course offerings as part of ZURB University, as well as writing for the ZURB blog and email newsletters.

Campbell, CA, US

• Prototyped a redesign of ZURB's (eight) free product design apps and a unification the separate software tools into a cohesive product suite through the creation of a new web app (Rails/HTML/SCSS/JQuery).
• Aided with the development and support of the open-source Foundation front-end framework (SCSS, JQuery).

Responsible for marketing, events planning and design tasks at POPSHOP, a startup co-working space serving Cornell University and the surrounding community.

Ithaca, New York, US

• Established UX/UI for an apartment leasing/subleasing website, including engineering implementation of production-quality HTML/CSS/jQuery.
• Developed brand strategy, including establishing a style and supervising other UX/visual designers.
• Mentored backend engineers working on business logic and infrastructure (PHP and MySQL).

Freelance photojournalist, specializing in sports and community events. Had several dozen photos published, in addition to over a dozen articles and a bi-weekly interview column.