Axis Ag empowers farmers with innovative agricultural solutions that drive sustainable growth, optimize productivity, and foster environmental stewardship. We are dedicated to advancing technology and partnerships that enhance the future of farming, building resilient food systems, and supporting the communities we serve.

Responsible for software and overall product delivery of robotic work cells, utilizing robotic arms, 3D computer vision, and SOTA models, to execute pick-and-place operations in a manufacturing / logistics / warehousing context. Working with Hardware, Robotics, ML, ML Ops, and Platform, to take each product line from development lab proof-of-concepts through scalable repeatable production deploys. Building a flexible configurable core platform, usable across multiple product lines and multiple customer deploys, supporting a variety of arm and camera layouts, connected to the cloud for both monitoring and remote support, and tied into our ML pipeline for continuous improvement.

Coordinating with Leads for Operations, Hardware, Robotics, and ML to provide a full service running autonomous weeding robots on the field. Manager and lead responsible for all things web and infrastructure, with internal-facing dashboards and tools for operations, and external-facing customer dashboards. Also responsible for supporting robotics and ML teams with build infrastructure, platform infrastructure, and data and training pipelines. On the robot itself, responsible for touchscreen interface on the robot, data streaming and upload, teleoperations controls, and software update and deploy.

Payments Integration covers everything below Payments mid-tier, including Money Engine for money movement workflows, services for managing bank accounts and credit cards, and Payment Gateway for abstracting away third-party processors across multiple countries and currencies. Primarily focused on reliability, scale, and monitoring. Helping to develop best practices for the team, while working with DevOps, SRE, and other Infrastructure teams. Helped guide the team through major migration of all of our US and UK traffic.

Managing individuals across three different project teams - internal Fleet Operations tools, LocalMotion by Zipcar B2B product, and Avis Connected Car initiative. Lead developer and architect role on a variety of new and existing services, as well as the Core SDK. Focused on debugging difficult issues, building new services, product and platform design, and driving long-term engineering efforts.

Startup focused on tools to help improve insights into user needs and behavior. Built multiple survey and feedback tools, that relied on backend processing of both video and audio to extract interesting insights across a large volume of data. Responsible for designing and building the product, hiring and managing, and building out the infrastructure and development tools.

SalesForce IntegrationLead a project team of five in re-architecting the application user service for full SalesForce integration. This included a two-way message flow between SalesForce and the Java backend, buffered over AWS SQS and bookended by Nodejs and Java.Rich-Content PlayerWorked in a project team of five building a HTML5-based Powerpoint player. This included a C# service for ingesting and parsing Microsoft PPT files, a Java backend for splitting and serving assets, and a JavaScript frontend for replaying and navigating through a presentation.

Tennessee Department of RevenueLed a project team of three in implementing a new C# thick client application providing both OCR (optical character recognition) and ADR (automatic document recognition). Focused on custom enhancements on top of a limited framework.TD AmeritradeLed a project team of three in implementing a new web application built on ExtJS and Direct Web Remoting. Focused on maintaining performance and functionality across both legacy and modern browsers.Scottsdale Insurance CompanyWorked in training an application team on TDD (Test Driven Development) and agile methodology. Built a custom testing framework and automated Hudson CI (Continuous Integration) server for a web application built on Apache Struts and Drools business rules.JPMorgan Chase & Co.Led a project team of two in implementing a custom records retention framework utilizing Quartz Scheduler to handle tracking, updating, and deleting of millions of records. Focused on unit testing, code coverage, and scalable performance.MetLife Auto & HomeWorked on implementing functional enhancements for a web application built on Apache Struts, XSL templates, and an Oracle relational database. Focused on Java/JavaScript framework improvements, memory/garbage collection tuning, and overall application performance enhancements.