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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 and microservices to improve uptime and maximize resource utilization while simplifying operations.Migrated structured legacy… Show more 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 and microservices to improve uptime and maximize resource utilization while simplifying operations.Migrated structured legacy data warehousing to an unstructured data lake allowing us to operate an on-demand analytics platform at greatly reduced cost.Implemented a hybrid cloud CI/CD pipeline for game builds accelerating liveops’ ability develop and ship new features and content Show less

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 decisions on selection of SaaS, cloud services, and other technologies.Architected and engineered a cloud based gaming platform… Show more 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 decisions on selection of SaaS, cloud services, and other technologies.Architected and engineered a cloud based gaming platform supporting over 20M global players. Created an in-house analytics pipeline for source attribution, game health, A/B testing, and KPIs providing near real time intelligence for marketing and liveops teams.Built a back-end game engine that allowed us to quickly bootstrap new titles at scale.Successfully pivoted the company from web based social games to mobile.Bootstrapped and grew the company to 25+ employees.Managed and mentored engineers both directly and indirectlySuccessfully negotiated the acquisition of Synapse to Kongregate in 2017. Show less

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 community, at peak, Pixel had grown to a thousand customers on weekend nights and was a successful high-throughput bar business with a team… Show more 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 community, at peak, Pixel had grown to a thousand customers on weekend nights and was a successful high-throughput bar business with a team of 15. Pixel was sold in 2013 so I could concentrate on Synapse Games. Show less

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 mentored the software engineering team while developing group process and design patterns.