• Identified high-leverage opportunities and implemented their solutions, such as:⠀• Introducing static analysis to eliminate an entire class of production errors⠀• Dockerizing more applications for easy portability⠀• Reduced infrastructure costs by ~30% by optimizing inefficient code• Led initiative to start an engineering blog as an inbound recruiting strategy and attract like-minded engineers

• Guided team of developers to complete projects based accounting for priorities, trade-offs, and quality• Started and led a weekly book club to grow the skills of the development team. The idea has caught on and now most of the company has team-focused book clubs• Assisted CTO in interviewing engineering candidates and make hiring decisions• Assumed responsibility for DevOps and SysOps

• Containerized entire pipeline from development to production⠀• Sped up development with no time wasted debugging environmental issues⠀• QA is more productive with automated environments on AWS Fargate for each pull request⠀• Production deployments are more reliable and 100% automated globally⠀• Time spent maintaining infrastructure is now minimal, team can focus on customer value⠀• Relieved CTO of SysOps duties to provide time for more strategic endeavors• Championed and implemented loosely-coupled architecture inspired by Domain-Driven Design and Hexagonal Architecture⠀• Resulted in easily-testable, easily-maintained, and easily-extended code⠀• Allowed moving fast with high quality

• Wrote features and fixed bugs for the Mail Pilot application for macOS.• Assumed role of primary maintainer of Throttlehq.com SaaS application, written in Node.• Solved various scaling and performance problems for Throttle:⠀• Reduced hosting costs by 78% while increasing sustainability, uptime, and performance.⠀• Removed hours of monthly downtime by optimizing CPU bottlenecks in application code for time complexity.⠀• Improved application responsiveness by abstracting certain resource-intensive background processes to serverless functions on AWS Lambda.⠀• Reduced storage costs by 98% by storing large user data on AWS S3 instead of local SSD.⠀• Increased performance by 4x by horizontally-scaling the application.⠀• Increased data availability and durability with a MongoDB replica set orchestrated by Docker.⠀• Throttle now has room to grow at a fast rate for years with the same lean resources.

• Led development of key, customer-facing features in PHP, JavaScript, and React for the ExpressionEngine CMS product:⠀• One-click updater: update ExpressionEngine in seconds rather than minutes or hours.⠀⠀• Has delivered thousands of updates with a 100% success-rate, unheard of for a CMS updater.⠀⠀• Customers stay more up-to-date with new releases than ever before.⠀• Grid field-type: more dynamic, flexible data entry.⠀• New user-friendly control panel with easy APIs for extension.• Implemented an automated testing system from scratch using Docker, RSpec, and CircleCI.⠀• Saved 6000+ developer hours of manual testing over four years.⠀• Software releases now take minutes instead of days, and release more frequently.⠀• Directly addressed customer complaints of infrequent, slow releases.• Implemented semantic versioning for third-party APIs.⠀• Customers now eagerly upgrade our product knowing it will remain stable.⠀• Add-on developers spend more time developing features rather than fixing bugs.• Quickly patched security vulnerabilities and kept our stellar security track record.

• Created native iPhone apps that⠀• Have been featured by Wired magazine and Apple.⠀• Have amassed millions of downloads.⠀• Maintained above a 4-star review average.• Automated ad-hoc iPhone app building to make client reviews of apps quick and easy.• Saved company money by learning to perform typically-outsourced geospatial information tasks.• Converted Photoshop illustrations into pixel-perfect, semantic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.• Implemented website backends in ExpressionEngine, CodeIgniter, and Drupal.

• Created website design mockups for client consideration.• Full stack website development for local organizations, mainly in Drupal.• Communicated with clients directly about project status and planning.• Conducted live training sessions and created screencast documentation for clients.