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Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

San Francisco, California, Us

Tempe, Arizona, Us

• Senior Architect reporting directly to the CTO and VP of Engineering• Evangelized technology initiatives to engineering, product, and executive staff• Delivered one on one mentoring, daily training classes via Slack, and onsite classes • Taught new technologies to the 20 person engineering team ‣ Javascript ‣ React and related tooling ‣ Go• Work directly with Chief Product Officer to build functional prototypes from Figma designs • Led the re-architecting of the primary revenue generating site from PHP/jQuery to React ‣ Taught the React ecosystem to the 5 person frontend team, brought them to a proficient level ‣ Built the necessary tooling to support the progressive rollout of React ‣ Mentored frontend engineers to promotion, from mid to senior engineer • Pioneered re-platforming the PHP backend to Go ‣ Evangelize and gain support for the benefits of re-platforming from PHP to Go ‣ Led the training of 20 person engineering team in Go, brought all up to a proficient level ‣ Mentor new Go engineers to become lead engineers and senior contributors• Took over the iOS team after an exodus of engineers left it to a single junior iOS engineer ‣ Build an interview process and questions iOS engineers and managers ‣ Took over planning and prioritization for company mobile initiatives ‣ Interviewed and hired 2 senior iOS engineers, and a Mobile department manager ‣ Helped in an individual contributor role to accomplish iOS tasks during team rebuild ‣ Mentored the lone junior engineer to a promotion to mid-level

Santa Monica, California, Us

• Technical Lead for the entire Used Car Search web frontend, half of all search traffic ‣ Re-platformed from Angular to React, to achieve company goals of consolidatedfrontend tech ‣ Was able to teach, mentor, and transition non-frontend engineers from their existing tech stack (Python, iOS, Android, Ruby/Rails) to React ‣ Recruit and build a 15 engineer team, when no javascript/react engineers were available ‣ Concurrently had the highest code contributions of any developer on the project• Technical Lead for SellMyCar and Dealer Verify iOS apps ‣ Recruited, interviewed, and onboarded team from lone engineer to 5 senior engineers ‣ Enabled a mobile-first workflow of enabling automated pricing of trade-ins ‣ Built a dynamic interview question flow, able to be updated outside of AppStore releases• Pioneered React Native to achieve company goal of moving from native mobile to cross-platform React ‣ Enabled the company to remove it’s dependency on the native mobile engineering department ‣ Leveraged existing React engineer team to support multiple mobile projects ‣ Gave multiple company wide talks and breakout sessions explaining React Native as a technology ‣ Became the key mentor/teacher on React Native related matters ‣ Enabled multiple existing engineers to transition to TrueCar’s new tech stack• Technical Lead for Post Prospect web frontend green field project ‣ Create, manage, and assign project work for team of 7 developers based on product needs ‣ Manage all technical aspects of product roadmap each fiscal quarter• Engineers that I mentored were promoted to tech leads of my various projects when I left• Worked directly for the CTO, Chief Architect, and various SVP’s to accomplish companywide initiatives• Developed and implemented the company’s hiring process that was used for all frontend engineer hiring

• Lead development for the company’s main iPhone app• Continuous Integration pipeline utilizing Jenkins, TestFlight, etc• Pioneer Integration and Unit Test coverage• Integrated HTML5 WebSockets via Node.js server for real-time app chat and updates • Leveraged existing Graph API with deferred message handling over PHP backend

• Built a drop in ad-serving iOS SDK from scratch• Designed the API specification and implementation for multiple web services used toprovide iPhone apps with data• Wrote out complete documentation for end users to understand how to use apps and API’s• Multiple custom content management systems (PHP/HTML/CSS/JS)• Online event creation and directory web application• Managed projects from inception to completion, including: project spec, testing, QA,wireframe, UI, design, team delegation.

• Managed architecture and development for iPhone app api integration• Handled iPhone table views that served video and pictures asynchronously• Dealt with cache management for iPhone apps over intermittent data connections • Lead developer for Nitto Tire Travel-Along frontend web app• PHP development for photo contest CMS• Built and maintained a variety of apps and websites• Dealt with permission handling and data structures across web and mobile

Us

• Head full stack developer for second largest client (PHP/HTML/CSS/JS) • Lead a team of 3-5 developers• Responsible for spec'ing out projects, and leading co-workers• Technical advisor for client, helping to flesh out ideas• Started as entry level developer, worked my way up • Advisor for companies first iPhone app project

• Automated a month long reporting process• Oversaw and maintained the client database• Taught myself new technologies to expedite task completion

• Lead a team of 3-5 people • Oversaw the database for the companies Manufacturing Resource Processing system• Developed a 75 page manual to help standardize processes• Started as a data entry person, taught myself the system and moved up