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Portland, Oregon, United States

Building a next generation lodging company that’s digital at heart but with hospitality in our soul. The short-term rental experience should be and can be better for everyone.

Continued to develop and ship Synapse titles as a first party studio while optimizing for the Enterprise. Integrated and consolidated SaaS and cloud services across the organization. Optimized cloud hosting saving 50% annually using reservations/commitments, service rightsizing, and optimizations of our data life cycle.Containerized backend game engines.

MMO gaming company developing and shipping over a dozen titles with internal and external IP including Animation Throwdown (Family Guy, Futurama, American Dad, King of the Hill) and TMNT: Mutant Madness. Oversaw initial development and day-to-day operations of Synapse Games.Responsible for scoping technical needs, evaluating build vs buy, and making final.

Popular Coffee-shop/Craft Bar/Arcade in Cornell University’s Collegetown. A creative space where liberal arts, technology, and entrepreneurial spirits could mingle and be celebrated. From live music and art shows to events like Ignite and Ask an Astronomer, Pixel drew a diverse group of thinkers and spawned many new ventures including Synapse Games. Beyond.

Provided full stack software engineering consulting and development services on projects ranging from online learning to ride sharing startups predominantly with Ruby on Rails, Java, MySQL, and Oracle. Advised and executed performance tuning and scaling of operating systems, applications, and databases. Consulted on startup business planning and strategy.

Founding member of Cornell University’s online learning arm. Designed, architected, and engineered a premium platform for delivering asynchronous distributed learning globally. Developed tooling for content authoring and editing. Built out a fully replicated multi-dc infrastructure that handled several man-made and natural disasters. Built, managed, and.