Technical lead in charge of Insight's catastrophe risk modeling and analysis platform. My mandate is to build out this service offering while increasing scalability, reliability, and manageability, and decreasing time to market.

Full-time consulting engagement to improve scalability, maintainability, and cost of ownership of legacy codebase, and to implement, document, and train junior developers on best practices for development, testing, and deployment.

Designed and built APIs, back-end systems, and automation and continuous integration workflows for Postlight's clients, including Time Inc., SFX, Envelope, and the Obama Foundation. Technologies used include Elasticsearch, Python, Node, PostGIS, nginx, and Ansible.

Designed and built the search platform for the company's streaming music service. Technologies used include Elasticsearch, Python, and nginx. Built a continuous integration workflow to build our EC2 infrastructure with Terraform and deploy to it with Ansible.

Designed, built, and maintained RESTful APIs, databases, and back-end systems for arc90's clients. Greatly increased reliability and scalability and decreased complexity of distributed systems. Technologies used include C#, .NET, SQL Server, and IIS. Developed and released an open-source REST framework for .NET.

Created a financial application for Viacom's worldwide cash management department. The system tracked all Viacom intracompany loans, calculated interest due, uploaded data into a general ledger program on an AS/400, and generated reports. Wrote a reusable high-performance ODBC object library to allow this desktop app (and future ones) to run with acceptable performance in London and Amsterdam over low-speed international lines (pre-web) against the database server in New York