Co-leader of the Veracross engineering team, with a primary focus on our back end systems; encompassing both infrastructure and services.Lead architect on all infrastructure and security related projects, including things like our full move from Rackspace's legacy Open Stack platform to a modern Amazon Web Services deployment. The migration was managed with the Hashicorp stack (Terraform, Vault, Consul, and Packer).Lead architect and/or developer on many core Veracross services, including our Authentication and Authorization service, our Document Generation platform, our Email and SMS platform, and our API.Assisted with Veracross's VC Pay initiative, helping to achieve PCI compliance.

Wore many engineering hats, including:* Began co-leading the engineering team, including both technical and line management* Solved many of our most difficult engineering projects, including building an Academic Class Scheduler. This was one of the industry's first web-based Schedulers and remains one of the most user friendly on the market. I built both the back-end solution algorithms and front end user-facing application* Chief architect and developer of our email system, which ours schools use to send millions of emails per month with a consistent 99+% delivery rate* Managed our infrastructure and learned to scale it to support our rapid growth* Working on front-end development projects, including our Parent, Student, and Teacher Portals, Admissions Dashboards, and many others* Implementing/installing new clients* Directly supporting clients in day-to-day requestsIn doing these projects, I gained a mastery of web development (Ruby on Rails on the backend, and the framework du jour in Javascript over the years (jQuery -> Backbone -> Ractive -> React)), HTML & CSS, T-SQL, and DevOps tools.

Conducted research with Dr. Mike Veatch on queuing control network optimization problems.Wrote programs using CPlex to solve large linear programming problems.Wrote programs in Python to streamline data collection and analysis.