Led the strategic growth and development of the software engineering team, fostering a world-class engineering organization and providing technical direction for data science initiatives.Key Achievements:* Built a high-performing engineering team: Recruited and onboarded talented developers, cultivating a collaborative and results-oriented environment.* Enhanced data accessibility: Delivered a scalable API for clinical supplies data, streamlining access and user experience in an application that saved millions in trial expenses.* Improved data platform transparency: Deployed Backstage, creating a clear and comprehensive documentation system for data pipelines, dashboards, and databases.* Optimized business-critical tool: Collaborated with data scientists to redesign a complex financial forecasting dataset, significantly boosting performance.Additional Responsibilities:* Established coding standards and best practices.* Mentored and coached junior engineers.* Defined and implemented technical roadmap.* Partnered with cross-functional teams to achieve business goals.

Led high-performing engineering teams across diverse projects, from large-scale data pipelines to critical marketplace APIs, delivering impactful solutions for the agritech industry.Key Achievements:As Principal Software Engineer:* Supported Bioinformatics: Built robust AWS pipelines for large-scale genomic analyses, significantly increasing throughput and supporting microbe discovery for seed treatments.* Delivered mission-critical APIs: Spearheaded the development of backend APIs for the Indigo Grain Marketplace, processing billions of dollars in commodity crop transactions.* Enabled efficient grain transportation: Built an API leveraging user submitted pricing information to price grain transport between various locations.As Senior Engineering Manager:* Mentored and coached: Led a team of 12 engineers, fostering growth from entry-level to principal roles.* Collaborated with stakeholders: Partnered with product managers and business leaders to define roadmaps and deliver software on time.* Unified customer identity: Streamlined customer information across disparate systems (Salesforce, Oracle) through API development.* Delivered under pressure: Met a tight 60-day deadline for key partnership by delivering user identity and business account APIs for the Marketplace rewrite.* Innovated Access Management: Designed and built an access management platform for the new Marketplace, ensuring low-latency attribute-based access control.* Shared expertise: Became the subject matter expert for the organization's identity and access management.

Championed secure and scalable access management solutions, fostered developer success, and spearheaded API documentation efforts, contributing significantly to the Mass Customization Platform.Key Achievements:* Developed Cimpress Open Access Management: Built a robust Node.js API, empowering role-based access control across the platform.* Auth0 Subject Matter Expert: Led implementation of seamless authentication across all platform applications, leveraging Auth0 as the identity provider.* Customer Success Champion: Onboarded development teams to various services, ensuring smooth adoption and maximizing platform utilization.* Cimpress Developer Portal Contributor: Championed API discoverability and documentation for the platform, enhancing developer experience.Additional Responsibilities:* Led and mentored a team of platform success engineers.* Collaborated with cross-functional teams to achieve platform goals.* Stayed current with evolving technologies and industry best practices.

Automated and optimized software delivery pipelines, fostered cost-efficiency, and empowered developers through innovative DevOps solutions.Key Achievements:* Implemented Infrastructure as Code: Leveraged tools to build scalable and repeatable deployments for: Jenkins: Streamlined CI/CD processes. Artifactory: Ensured efficient artifact storage. ELK stacks: Enabled comprehensive application monitoring and logging.* Developed Cost-Saving Serverless App: Automated tagging of development infrastructure in AWS for shutdown during non-business hours, reducing costs.* Built Robust Migration Tool: Created a Ruby on Rails app facilitating Jenkins job definition migration across instances.* Enhanced Security with Ruby Gem: Designed a Ruby gem offering programmatic access to secrets stored in Thycotic Secret Server, improving security and accessibility.Additional Responsibilities:* Collaborated with developers and operations teams to ensure smooth deployments.* Monitored and maintained DevOps infrastructure for stability and performance.* Stayed current with emerging DevOps technologies and best practices.

Define quality guidelines for agile development team.Implement test automation for continuous deployment system.Provide support for customers of internal services.

Monitoring of order pipeline pages in Test environmentsValidation of operational changesPerforming load testing on the Vistaprint website in Test environmentsCapturing and analyzing code profilesDevelopment of tools to assist in all the above tasksPerforming manual validation of new code released to production

Verification of upgrades from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2 for all production servers, general upkeep of all production servers.

Manual Software Verification, Test Server Installation/Maintenance, Test Server XML Configuration File Upkeep, P2V and V2V Conversions for Testing Import/Export Feature of Software.