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New York City Metropolitan Area

New York, New York

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Technical lead for customer-facing communication channels and customer engagement. Primarily, I:* Work with product managers to define, scope, plan and deliver products* Lead a team of software engineers to design architecture, define underlying framework, assess and incorporate technical debt, and ultimately, ship incrementally* Drive engineering efforts with a focus on quality, scalability, predictability, performance, robustness, maintainability, mentorship and general awesomeness

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsibilities* Architecting systems and solving immediate operations, business, and infrastructure problems using software* Communicating business requirements on a daily basis into discrete, actionable feature sets* Ensuring uptime of internal and customer-side business-critical applications/systems* Establishing methodologies to manage team/project progress and software qualityAccomplishments* Architected, implemented, and deployed two e-Commerce platforms (spree, rails2/3, mongodb, memcached, refinerycms, shopify, unicorn)* Digitized order workflow of entire company from order entry to delivery (rails, redis, mysql, backbone.js, jQuery, pivotal-tracker)* Conceived, implemented, optimized, and deployed real-time product previewing JSON API (sinatra, memcached, rmagick, modo 3d, opengl, ruby c extensions)* Designed and provisioned web infrastructures from scratch (ec2, rackspace, chef, s3)* Integrated e-Commerce platform with e-mail, credit card payment, and shipping APIs (delayed_job, madmimi, sendgrid, activemerchant, activeshipping, including in-house gems)* Deployed changesets through staging and production environments on a daily basis to maintain good team velocity

* Set up and administered Fedora server for version control, bug tracking, instant messaging, knowledge-base wiki, and multiple web applications. * Migrated department homepage and ticketing system from PHP to Ruby on Rails. * Integrated inventory reporting into project management suite.* Fixed critical bugs in a timely manner. * Ensured 95% uptime during working hours for over 50 staff members.* Developed system for campus-wide job proposal management individually using MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Linux, Apache, LDAP (on-line). * Reported progress monthly and negotiated requirements with Student Employment staff and supervisors. * Documented system for future developers. * (Concurrent with course work)

* Consulted University of Washington client on social networking project. * Wrote software requirements specification, design document, unit tests. * Collaborated with 5 member team. * Presented final design to supervisors.* Implemented Hibernate DOA skeletons.* Learned tools of enterprise-level Web Service development. * (Concurrent with course work)

B.S., Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Taiwanese American Student Assocation, Intramural Soccer * Graduated with honors * Placed 17/23 in Intelligent.

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