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New York, Ny, Us

Seed stage delivering unified transit for organizations.- Led 3 squads (security, infrastructure, core technical product) through varying stages of transition- Led the delivery of Jawnt Pass, a fintech solution that utilizes BaaS (banking as a service) platforms enabling employee pre-tax contributions to a commuter debit card used for public transportation and parking- Led initial hiring, resourcing, and mentorship of the engineering organization- Led security initiatives to align policies with SOC2 and NIST CSF compliance frameworks- Led overhaul of engineering organization standards and processes, increasing visibility and transparency of bi-weekly deliverables, incidents, design decisions, and standards of operation - Raised the bar for engineering excellence, doubling developer velocity by increasing developer confidence, visibility of developer achievements, and liveliness of team culture

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Series D unicorn delivering cloud-based construction lending software.- Delivered a robust, customizable notifications experience for customers and customer facing product teams to replace a combination of 4 legacy notification systems. High volume platform service using AWS API Gateways, SQS, and ECS. - Eased the transition for customer-facing product teams to a new platform authorization service by migrating legacy roles and permissions for hundreds of thousands of users swiftly, securely, and safely- Cut time-to-production from hours into minutes for core platform services by automating Change Advisory Board (CAB) test cases with Postman, turning a painful manual verification process into a single button press- Increased data security, development speed, and developer confidence for platform teams by creating an idiomatic SQLAlchemy solution for multi-tenancy database segmentation, usable by all Python web frameworks- Set standards and simplified the process for migrating from Flask to FastAPI, enabling core platform services to migrate legacy Flask REST APIs with backwards compatibility, high developer velocity, and no downtime

Chattanooga, Tennessee, Us

Series C delivering a stress-free moving experience. - Guided a team of ninja engineers to solve technical problems across fulfillment, workforce, and partnership business domains during terrible economic headwinds.- Improved CM2 margins by reducing damage and late rates through a performance-based rewards and incentives system for our 1099 workforce, available through the Bellhop mobile application- Opened up new revenue streams by enabling over 20 partners (including Home Depot) to book revenue by replacing a manual email process with a high performing, automated partnership ingestion API- Significantly reduced customer bill appeasements and customer service team headaches by improving bill transparency and overhauling bill calculation to a time-based system that respects individual clock-in times- Improved the authentication and authorization experience by targeting low-performing customer authentication endpoints (reducing call times from 8 seconds to 0.5 seconds) and rolling out OAuth 2.0 for B2B flowsRaised the bar, orchestrated organizations across technical deliverables, and removed blockers in a high velocity engineering environment.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Created high performing, high availability platform services that were the backbone to an award-winning cloud marketplace.- Supported the submission of hundreds of thousands of cloud metrics per second by creating an scalable, high-performing data ingestion API (Spring, Kafka)- Enabled customer analytics dashboards by ingesting, processing, and categorizing millions of Kubernetes / OpenShift metrics (e.g CPU cycles) in large burst volumes (Lambdas, Kafka)- Enabled real-time billing of cloud environments, down to the CPU cycle through a multi-step, failure resilient data pipeline (Lambdas, Kafka)- Improved the Red Hat Marketplace customer experience by improving back-end performance for key paint-point areas (60%+ or more performance improvement)

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Modernized CI/CD and system automation on the IBM z/OS mainframe, leading to multiple patents and and Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. - Revolutionized automation on z/OS by turning a skunk works project of shell, C, and assembly programs into a production-ready Python library, ready to be plugged into CI/CD pipelines and Ansible playbooks. Appeared on the Z DevOps Talks podcast and a panel at IBM Think 2018.- Significantly improved Java performance on the z/OS mainframe with US Patent US20200301721A1 for reusable runtime environments, enabling the critical workflows of the world to modernize their build processesReceived an OTAA (outstanding technical achievement award) for my contributions to IBM Dependency Based Build, which enabled legacy applications (we're talking COBOL) to utilize CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, etc).

Tallahassee, Fl, Us

Crushed pain points for one of the most stressful jobs in the world: 911 operators.

Tallahassee, Fl, Us

Rebuilt the FSU financial aid website, improving student accessibility to financial aid. Analyzed student trends to predict incoming student requirements.