Advise the CEO on software architecture, best practices, tools, design, and engineering process.

• Owned the Tech Enablement Roadmap with the goal of continuously improving the non-functional qualities of the platform• Increased developer efficiency by onboarding new technologies (CircleCI, Retool, Athena); improving code organization and deployment structure; and defining component interfaces and abstractions• Fostered a culture of technical excellence by leading the Technical Design Review Process• Mentored senior engineers to increase their ownership, communication, and design skills• Started a weekly architecture “guild” for developers to discuss articles and ask questions• Coordinated periodic sessions between tech leads and outside advisors from the company’s VC network to provide perspective and help fill in experience gaps• Streamlined developer experience of creating task workflows by inventing and building py2sfn. The framework compiles Python to a CloudFormation template for use in AWS Step Functions. It then builds and deploys all tasks automatically. Py2sfn powers all of the background tasks in the platform and is being open-sourced. • Rearchitected ETL data pipeline away from Redshift and PostgreSQL foreign data wrappers to S3 and Athena to reduce costs by 50% and eliminate concurrency limits

• Designed application architecture for Project Talos (now Lexio) and guided senior engineers towards implementation• Led effort to pick an Identity Management provider and designed integration with three products• Created the Narratives for Qlik, Power BI, and Tableau extensions backed by a generic API which showcase Narrative Science AI to a huge audience of analysts and business users. Introduced React, Redux, and ES6 to the company with the Power BI extension.• Created AWS Lambda functions to warehouse operational metrics daily into a PostgreSQL database from 3scale, Marketo, and Mixpanel for use by marketing and business analysts• Consolidated nearly all of the company's Ansible tasks into modular roles, reducing LOC by 80-90%• Refactored integrated narratives SaaS deployment from CloudFormation and AMIs to use Terraform and Amazon ECS which reduced deployment time from 90 to 10 minutes

• Launched the company’s first remote development office in Seattle, WA and grew the team to seven• Served as technical point of contact in the partnership process and gave product demonstrations to senior leadership at Amazon, Microsoft, Tableau, and Qlik• Managed team of six engineers, gave quarterly performance reviews, mentored junior colleagues, and met all product launch deadlines

• Introduced AngularJS to the company and established the frontend foundation for Quill 2• Delivered first version of Quill On-Premise platform installer using Fabric under a short deadline with very few user stories or requirements• Designed and built REST service that provides user, project, and workspace management as well as authentication and authorization using Node.js and PostgreSQL• Consolidated Node.js application performance and request logging across internal libraries• Designed and built storage backend for next generation platform, Quill 3, using ltree extension in PostgreSQL that provided editorial versioning and reusability of configuration• Gave workshop presentation on Promises and Asynchronous programming• Designed and built optimized story-writing runtime for the integrated narratives project resulting in a 3-10x reduction in latency per story type• Adapted story-writing runtime to AWS Lambda to write millions of stories per day

Led effort to commercialize research on applying network analysis to soccer. Built client and public-facing web applications.

Design and develop cloud-based products to quantitatively and effectively analyze soccer player performance using network algorithms.

Analyzed pharmaceutical data for large drug manufacturers. Overhauled territory alignment mapping software to more quickly generate reports to visualize key prescriber and account targets. Introduced Contact Management Tool to accelerate field representatives’ recording of calls to prescribers, vital to drug marketing strategy. Consulted clients on territory alignment to optimize and distribute quarterly incentive payouts.

Centralized product quotation processes into custom suite of Regulator Assembly Number tools. Converted over 30 technical schematics to process flow diagrams for use in marketing literature. Enhanced Product CD with new, interactive material to showcase Dresser’s line of high-performing natural gas products. Automated valve sizing charts enabling more rapid quotation generation. Created advertisements for line of noise-attenuating devices and environmentally-friendly Valve Regulator Pilots.

Independently devised custom PHP and MySQL solutions for over a dozen national clients. Published youth basketball registration system for easy, integrated online payment and team system utilized by thousands of basketball players in eastern Massachusetts.

Launched web-based student marketplace company reaching 13 national universities and over 6000 users in first 6 months. Managed 8 student interns responsible for marketing and securing advertising deals.