Focused mainly on backend/infrastructure on Feed and Explore surfaces. Projects include:- why you’re seeing this post- in-feed recommendations- caching infrastructure

Event Nation was acquired by SquadUP in 2019.Event Nation is an online event ticketing platform that gives venues and event organizers tools to manage all aspects of their events, from ticket sales to on-site operations. Event Nation's web and mobile platforms power top nightclubs and festivals including Bliss (DC), Karma (DC), Studio 23 (Miami), Exchange (Miami), The Louisiana Seafood Festival, Lit Up Music Festival (Miami), and the Crawfish Mambo Festival (LA).As CTO I built and scaled the platform to meet the demands of clients in a highly competitive space utilizing modern tooling, frameworks and cloud computing technologies including Ruby on Rails, Memcached, Redis, Postgres, AWS, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Ember.js, React Native and GraphQL.

Thrive Commerce is a venture-backed e-commerce startup based in Philadelphia, PA. Thrive's omnichannel Promotions Engine powers coupon distribution for some of the world's leading online retailers including Gap, Advance Auto Parts, Francesca's, Old Navy, Banana Republic and many others.As Co-Founder and Director of Engineering, I worked closely with our sales team to develop core platform features to meet the needs of our clients using Ruby on Rails, AWS, and Ember.js.

Worked in a staff augmentation role to add features to a native iOS app (Objective C) for a large pharmaceutical company. Interfaced with agency project managers and directly with client product team to implement and deliver functionality.

Houwzer is a modern, fairly priced real estate agency for savvy homeowners that has helped clients buy or sell hundreds of homes worth more than $150 million. While contracted by Houwzer, I worked directly with the leadership team to architect and develop a MVP real estate CMS platform using Ruby on Rails.

Core member of a small agile team that built and deployed Accelus Org ID, a client-facing web app in use by some of the world's largest hedge funds, banks, asset managers, and other financial institutions. Developed a Javascript single-page application (SPA) using modern tooling and frameworks including Dojo, Backbone, Git, Jira and Node.js. Worked closely with back-end engineers to transition functionality from a legacy Java applet into a REST API.

SeventySix Capital is a top performing early stage venture capital fund that has invested in consumer-facing technology companies including Bre.ad, Dwolla, Indiegogo, Omek, ReverbNation, Ryzing, Seamless Web, Take Care Health Systems, Xtify, and Zaarly. In my role as summer associate I was exposed to many facets of technology and venture capital and worked on projects ranging from portfolio valuation models to the development of public and investor facing marketing collateral.

Worked in various roles throughout the songwriting and recording process as a freelance producer and recording engineer on a number of independent and record-label releases.- Dr. Dog - Shame Shame- Norma Jean - Meridional- Underoath - Disambiguation- Motion City Soundtrack - Making MovesProduced and wrote songs for Citadel:- Self-titled album- "Theta" placements: - Canadian documentary "Unsung: Behind the Glee" - Starz "The Chair" - Vice "Bare-Knuckle Boxing in the UK"- "Stand Next to Me" placements: - TV Land "Younger"Composed custom jingle pitches for:- Mini- Hewlett Packard- Brawny- 7-11- Verizon- Sonosite