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Georgetown, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

I led the technical team in achieving significant milestones and played a pivotal role in the company's growth from a startup with no product to generating $11 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) while acquiring 1100 paying customers.Product Development: Spearheaded the development of RealWork Labs' core product, Crux, using a modern technology stack comprising TypeScript, React, Node.js, and MongoDB. Technical Strategy: Defined and executed a comprehensive technical strategy aligned with the company's business objectives. This involved making critical decisions about architecture, scalability, and data management, ensuring the platform's stability and performance.Team Leadership: Built and nurtured a high-performing engineering team by recruiting top talent, fostering a collaborative work culture, and providing mentorship. This resulted in a cohesive team capable of delivering high-quality software consistently.Performance Metrics: Established key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the engineering team's performance and the product's success. Continuously monitored and analyzed these metrics to make data-driven decisions.Customer-Centric Features: Worked closely with product managers to prioritize and deliver customer-centric features and enhancements. This approach led to increased user engagement and customer retention, contributing to revenue growth.

Austin, Texas, Us

Managed a team of 14 engineers across three different continentsUI Architect and Lead UI Developer for Khoros CareLead the effort to overhaul the UI from GWT to React / Redux.Introduced the usage of Jest and Enzyme to increase code quality and reduce development time.Responsible for scoping work, planning the sprints and making sure we hit our commitments.Worked with key stakeholders (PM, UX, Support) to make sure projects were delivered in time and never sacrificed qualityResponsible for deployment and monitoring of several Java backend servicesWorked with architecture to break up our monolith into distinct microservices

Austin, Tx, Us

Refactored and improved vast areas of the software to scale up from about 1,000 to over 80,000 monitored devices (servers, etc).Rewrote the UI to a modern HTML5 Ajax based application using ExtJs (Sencha). Was able to effectively organize over 175k lines of javascript.Team lead and data visualization expert on a multi-year customization project for Cisco which resulted in the UCS Performance Manager product. Seen at http://bit.ly/1KmJIYC.Supported the software by engaging several fortune 500 companies to assist in monitoring their servers using SNMP, WMI and SSH. Also assisted in monitoring cloud based technologies such as VMWare and Cisco UCS.Rewrote the event infrastructure to be able to process several million events per day.Worked with python, protocol buffers and Rabbitmq to created distributed message based architecture.Was a part of a team that wrote a Docker orchestration software product using Go for the backend and Angular JS for the front end.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Served as 'scrum master'​/technical lead for a team of 5 developers Introduced use of code reviews and automated testing to reduce defects by an average of 30%Executed database performance profiling to increasing application speed and saved the largest single contract in the company from cancellation.Designed and developed custom enterprise CMS systems for many US cities' travel and visitors bureaus

Plano, Texas, Us

Used the .NET framework to create internal XML Web ServicesDeveloped and maintained a Rich Client application for local governments to manage their property taxesIntroduced use of .NET open source software, such as Log4Net, to reduce development time and increase software quality.Worked directly with the customer to ensure that product features exceeded customer expectationsServed on a software development process committee to guide future internal practices

Project Lead for a PHP web-application capable of supporting several thousand concurrent usersIntroduced performance metrics and caching techniques that were able to reduce application resource usage by over 80%Helped introduce Agile software development practices that reduced the software development product release cycle from 1.5 years to 6 months.Instituted and trained other develops to use testing frameworks as well as software development best practices that greatly improved quality, reduced defects, and led to greater overall customer satisfaction