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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Working toward the success of Autodesk Build, in particular on a typescript library for construction issues that is used across Autodesk's frontend ecosystem.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I joined the PlanGrid team shortly after they were acquired by Autodesk.I build software that helps contractors and owners in commercial, heavy civil, and other industries to work together throughout the project lifecycle. Most of my work has been on the frontend, in React + Typescript.

San Francisco, California, Us

Zoomforth is a site builder (like Wix, Weebly, SquareSpace, etc.) built for enterprise sales teams.As the CTO, I aligned our team toward priorities and served as a steward of our engineering culture. I worked to understand what makes an engineering team excel, and to use that knowledge as a guide for improving myself and our team.I spent a great deal of time working on our product directly, doing full-stack engineering on our AWS / Python / React.js stack.I also worked on hiring engineers when doing so was strategic, managed the small engineering team, and collaborated a great deal with the CEO on company and product strategy.

San Francisco, California, Us

- worked with Python, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, and ElasticSearch.- improved our external data indexing pipeline: built an asynchronous system for large-scale downloading and caching of http resources- delivered on a 7-figure contract for a custom API- developed an ad display service that served locally targeted ads on publishers' sites.- frequently worked with large data sets (e.g. every small business in America, or every piece of news in America). In the second half of my tenure at Radius, we pivoted from a local news service to a local business lead generation product. As part of that pivot, we made exceptional progress on a new product. Within 9 months we had customers for it and were able to raise a strong series B round.At Radius I had the opportunity to work alongside many other talented and experienced software engineers. I'm grateful for their mentorship.

I developed a network of humorous websites.They included unrelatedcaptions.com, averagecats.com, lolplants.com, obviouscaptions.com, inventedfacts.com, imgist.com, averagetextsfromlastnight.com, and mylifeisaverage.com (sold in 2009).I was responsible for the technical aspects of the initial deployment and continued success of these sites. From the idea through the design, implementation, and maintenance, I experienced the full lifecycle of these projects, and learned a lot from that.Of these sites, mylifeisaverage.com was by far the most popular and was regularly receiving more than 2 million pageviews per day. I sold the site in order to spend more time improving my technical skills.I customized Wordpress according to my needs for most of these sites, building custom WP plugins and modifying databases to better handle the scale. I used Google's DFP to manage and sell ads on these properties. Over the course of these projects, I improved my skills at PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and server administration.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

As a lab assistant in the "Program in Computing" lab, I assisted students with their C++ and web software projects. This work included debugging C++ in Visual Studios 2005, explaining programming and internet concepts to students, and general Windows XP troubleshooting. Additionally, in my final year I was promoted to "Head" assistant and took shared responsibility for interviewing and hiring a team of nine other Lab Assistants, and managing that team so as to ensure smooth operation of the computer lab.Over the course of my time there, I worked with my manager to improve the PIC lab on many levels, including developing a new website for it using the drupal CMS.

Bs, Cognitive Science, Computing Specialization

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