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San Francisco, California, US

As head of three-person team, unlocked $2 million+ in sales opportunities by expanding integrations to new CRM partners (Microsoft Dynamics, PDI). Worked closely with newly hired SRE to transition our build process to Github Actions and get more of our infra under IaC control using Terraform, and migrated our Kafka pipeline from self-hosted EC2 boxes to.

San Francisco, California, US

Took charge of the downstream integrations pipeline with customer relationship management systems such as Salesforce (using Apache Kafka), writing most of the internal code and managing outside contractors for integration-specific work on our CRM partners' platforms. Also spent six months before the 2020 election (a time of 10 million+ messages per day.

San Francisco, California, US

Provided SaaS platform for political campaigns, non-profits and labor unions to keep in touch with their constituents through SMS and MMS texting, especially during the busy 2018 election. One early contribution I was proud of: I improved user privacy and reduced legal risk to California’s data-deletion law by designing and implementing a data-deletion.

Baltimore, Maryland, US

Created admin interface for machine learning tool helping health care organizations hire the best talent. I was mostly responsible for the data pipelines to multiple integrations with clients' applicant tracking systems, from ETL to email reports to user-facing dashboards.

Berlin, Berlin, DE

Contributed to multiple microservices and frontends in a polyglot environment, processing payments and managing subscriptions to premium offerings on SoundCloud’s audio platform. Highlight: Led the three-person team to create the front end for the subscription and account management system for SoundCloud Go+, a paid, ad-free consumer subscription product.

New York, NY, US

Taught a 10-week, 6-hours-a-week intensive JavaScript class. Collaborated with 2 TAs to provide a learning experience for 30 students with wildly different backgrounds in tech; from courageous complete beginners, to machine learning engineers at Google looking for something fun to do after work.

Created compliance platform for the banking industry to aggregate and analyze potential suspicious transaction data, using model-driven system to drive application behavior on both backend and frontend, with both schemas and data in Semantic Web RDF graph format. We created a unique infinite grid-based UI for this project in ClojureScript, for analysts to.

Brooklyn, NY, US

Created classroom-based lesson software for dedicated Android tablets, in both teacher and student versions (and worked on an ancillary lesson builder website, for the teachers to make lesson plans). Favorite part: traveling to sites nationwide to roll out the tablets, working with implementation team, school district staff, teachers, and students to.

Recurse CenterLike a collaborative writer's retreat, but for programmers. Here I reverse-engineered an Apple IIc game from the early 80s called RobotWar, in which players write programs in a language that comes with the game, then compile the programs down to a virtual machine code and load them into the robots, who fight to the death in a virtual arena.

Santa Clara, California, US

Led front end development for two projects: a trading platform for in-game virtual currency, and a Facebook fan site for World Wrestling Entertainment.

Laid out weekly 16-page broadsheet. Wrote scripts in JavaScript for Adobe Indesign, to reduce workload for designers and editors and facilitate roundtrip data transfer to web CMS.