Remote, full stack web developer focused on creating, maintaining and deploying the Good Measures platform to change the way the United States eats and views food using contextual nutrition information and food recommendations. Primary technologies: Ruby on Rails, Vue / HTML / CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, SQL (Postgres), and RSpec.- Developed front-end Vue user interface integrated with existing Rails stack.- Developed user-facing and internal web interfaces with Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Bootstrap, HTML (Haml) / CSS (SASS).- Added ActionCable/Websockets to replace JavaScript based polling.- Created versioned, documented APIs for Android and iPhone platforms.- Integrated platform with third party applications and data, such as: Canvas LMS, Amazon (SQS, S3, Lambda), Urban Airship, Comfortable Mexican Sofa, Slack, National Provider Identifier Database, and Trizetto Provider Solutions.- Optimized back end delayed job calculations to provide a 5-10x speedup. - Developed Ansible playbooks for automated infrastructure creation and maintenance.- Automated browser testing using Selenium / RSpec / Capybara.- Monitored and optimized site performance.- Deployed and extended Hubot (a Slack bot) with EC2 integration and other capabilities (Node/Heroku).

Principal Engineer and Team Lead for Varolii Profiles, a multi-tenant SaaS platform providing inbound and outbound employee and business continuity communications over phone, email, SMS and other transports. Varolii Profiles provides a Web UI and SOAP API for data management, decisioning and reporting for time critical mass communications.- Led requirements gathering, design and implementation of upcoming release layering finer grained security on top of existing customers applications and data while maintaining backwards compatability.- Led requirements gathering, design, and implementation of Varolii Contact Manager which added efficient data integration capabilities and significantly lowered customer integration costs.- Led design and implementation of Varolii Message Center which added rich inbound communications, a unified web and phone interface and provided a rich administrator interface.- Developed UI infrastructure and standards that streamlined and standardized web development on the Varolii platform.- Implemented rich web user interfaces using AJAX, JavaScript, HTML and CSS. - Implemented business logic, database access, Soap API additions and framework improvements using C++ and SQL.- Developed an ASP.NET web application used internally by Customer Support and Operations to monitor site health, diagnose customer issues and access log files. - Diagnosed and addressed performance and resource issues including inefficient SQL queries, slow web page rendering and memory leaks.- Trained new developer hires on Profiles and the application platform. - Trained internal groups on product releases and platform enhancements.- Worked closely with Quality Assurance, Customer Support and Operations.- Advised, mentored and trained development team members.- Attended trade shows representing Varolii.- Recognized as a leader, innovator and technical expert.- Recognized as a top performer and granted additional stock options.

Developed software tools supporting hardware design and application development for the Adaptive Computing Machine -- an integrated circuit for audio, video and wireless applications running on mobile devices. Primary technologies: Java, C/C++, assembly languages, and Verilog.- Developed software tools to support application development, debugging and testing for software running on a custom hardware platform consisting of heterogeneous processors on a homogenous network. - Extended the Eclipse IDE to include project management, build, and editor extensions for a multi-language application development environment.- Redesigned simulator and linker components to support arbitrary processor types using XML configuration an standard frameworks.- Implemented application linker. Designed resource allocation methods, hardware models and linker framework. Implemented processor specific linking.- Implemented hardware simulator and assembly language for VLIW processor. Extended simulator to generate basic hardware representation used for chip synthesis.- Migrated assembly language for VLIW processor through significant language revisions.- Implemented build system to perform automated builds upon source control check-in.- Recognized with stock options and retention bonuses.

Research Assistant focused on hardware design and testing of Reconfigurable Computing Architectures. - Implemented and tested a memory controller for FPGA-based reconfigurable computer architecture emulator. Wrote test benches in C and Verilog at the modules and system level. - Synthesized and optimized digital designs.