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- Published 100+ Rails articles on justinweiss.com, attracting over 30,000 visitors / month.- Wrote a book, Practicing Rails, selling over 1,200 copies and bringing in over $50,000 in revenue.- Built an email list of 4,500+ engaged Rails developers, with a 50% average open and 20% average click-through rate.

- Led the development team of 30 working on all customer-facing products, including Avvo.com, Avvo Legal Services, and internal administration and sales tools. - Worked with product and company leadership to set priorities, cross-team structure, product strategy, schedules, and staffing.- Responsible for hiring strategy, defining team roles and responsibilities, and setting dev organizational structure.- Grew the engineering team by 300% in four years- Created systems for communicating between siloed teams, through workshops and cross-team events- Led the move of Avvo.com from a monolithic Rails app to a Microservice Architecture deployed using Docker, improving our development team's productivity, ability to scale organizationally, and unlocking new product areas (like mobile and partner sites).- Worked closely with our Agile Coach to improve team health, happiness, and performance- Built strong, helping relationships between development, data engineering, and infrastructure- Started a company hackathon, leading to the creation of our first AppleTV prototype app and a tool for continuously deploying our applications

Led the 11 full-time and contract devs working on Avvo Advisor, Avvo Ignite, the Avvo sales platform, and all Avvo mobile applications. Responsible for hiring, training, and coaching new devs. Collaborated with PM, design, and the senior leadership team to plan projects, hiring, schedules, and future products. Defined developer responsibilities, paths for growth, and helped to shape a strong dev team culture.

Built many, many features and products for Avvo (http://www.avvo.com), the leading online legal marketplace connecting consumers and lawyers. Including:* The analytics platform that powered Avvo's ad pricing and rotation engine.* The first mobile version of Avvo.com, which took advantage of HTML5 and CSS3 to create a native-feeling experience.* Last Call, an iOS app, ready the first day third-party iOS apps became available.* A web crawler to parse and fetch headshots, address data, and practice area data from lawyer websites.* A system for automatically provisioning cloud test environments on EC2.* A redis-powered leaderboard for lawyers, drastically increasing the number of lawyer contributions to our site.Used Ruby, Rails, Memcached, Redis, SOLR, Resque, Sass, and iOS to build well-performing products and features incredibly quickly.

Improved the reliability of local and remote printer driver management and servicing for Windows Vista.

Designed, wrote, and maintained web applications used by tens of thousands of students and faculty members, including event calendar software, a dynamic course catalog, and a content management system. Developed database migration tools and an ORM wrapper.

Developed software to analyze and save credit default swap parameters and prototyped next-generation portfolio management software.

Responsible for all news articles for RPGamer, the largest news website for role-playing videogames. Hired and managed a fully-remote team of seven news reporters, and interviewed videogame industry leaders.