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• Driven by an interest in AI and a desire to create, set out to determine the viability of a product focused on literacy and early childhood development• Built a wrapper around OpenAI to create an API that focuses on image, audio, and content creation for a specific purpose• Developed and deployed an iOS app to do user testing and assess the viability of the idea• Continuing work on the effort as a side project instead of going all-in on turning it into a full-fledged business

• Led the engineering organization as we scaled from a team of 45 to over 130 engineers across three continents while the company moved up market, growing the business from tens of millions of dollars to hundreds of millions of dollars of ARR• Guided the team through one acquisition and one acquihire, integrating new team members and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders on the planning and execution required to integrate disparate products, technologies, tools, and processes• Responsible for driving the team through a period of platform modernization as we began to adapt a decade old monolithic application to meet the needs of a rapidly scaling business, customer base, and engineering team• Partnered with executives and other department leaders to define annual and quarterly objectives and key results for the company while owning the creation and execution of OKRs for engineering• Drove engineering efforts as Calendly embarked on its AI strategy, helping define strategic goals and roadmaps while working directly with a team that delivered working prototypes in two weeks and a production-ready solution within 6 weeks• Utilized DORA metrics to drive continuous improvement within engineering, leveraging key metrics and analytics to optimize processes, improve productivity, and enhance our ability to deliver

• Led the engineering organization through a period of significant growth going from 20 team members to 100+ (70 internal team members and 30+ contractors) while helping grow the business from zero revenue to tens of millions of dollars in ARR• Oversaw the creation and roll out of the first SaaSOps management platform, a cloud-first SaaS product hosted on GCP utilizing Java, Scala, JavaScript, Kafka, and a mix of database technologies• Gained extensive experience partnering and integrating with other platforms and products including Google Workspace (G Suite), Microsoft 365, Slack, Dropbox, Salesforce, and others• Implemented a data driven approach to development using metrics like cycle time, mean time to resolution, defect count by severity, defect resolution efficiency, predictability, and others resulting in a 10x frequency in deployments and a 50% decrease in defects• Participated in multiple successful funding rounds by representing engineering during the due diligence process, including producing reports of team and application performance as well as participating in deep dive interviews with potential investors• Defined a career ladder for engineering team members to track growth and provide a clear path for advancement within the organization with a focus on turning engineers into tech leads and tech leads into architects or managers• Worked with senior leadership to define, implement, and roll out a goal setting process focused on objectives and key results while owning the definition of the objectives and key results for the engineering organization• Implemented and evolved Scrum practices into the SDLC to gain predictability while also focusing on best practices like CI/CD in order to increase product quality and speed to market• Was a major participant in the creation and roll out of a set of policies and procedures designed to meet and exceed SOC 2 Type 2 controls resulting in multiple clean audits of our engineering processes

• Represented Kabbage’s technology department by collaborating with business stakeholders (i.e. Marketing, Business Development, and Product teams) and C-level executives in order to facilitate road mapping, provide technical input, and offer both long and short-term solutions to meet business needs• Dramatically increased quality and reduced churn by incorporating QA team members earlier in the SDLC, eliminating multiple code branches, and automating software releases thus reducing deployment time from 2 days to 12 minutes• Acted as the primary technical liaison on Kabbage’s Intuit Partnership Team, providing architectural guidance and technical expertise, working directly with the Intuit Project Team to ensure the integration launched on time, within budget, and met the relationship expectations set forth by Kabbage’s Sr. Business Development team members• Spearheaded and facilitated the implementation of Scrum across Kabbage’s entire organization including managing methodology selection and vendor selection of third-party Agile coaching team• Managed selection, onboarding, and training of new technology team members as the department expanded from 3 development teams (~15 people) to 6 (~28 people) within 12 months • Managed development teams through the successful design, implementation, and deployment of complex partner integrations including UPS, Stripe, Intuit, Square, Google Analytics, Authorize.Net, Yodlee, Intuit Data Services (IDS), Xero, LivePerson and others utilizing a Microsoft technology stack (C#, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Entity Framework, SQL Server 2012) and Amazon Web Services for hosting

• Designed and led the implementation of Kabbage’s internal underwriting platform, the first of its kind to underwrite customers based off a configurable set of data points leveraging sales activity thus minimizing a dependence on FICO data• Was the first Team Lead at Kabbage to begin to incorporate formalized scrum practices including proper estimation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, burn down charts, and retrospectives• Led a team of developers, actively participating in both the design and implementation phases, of Kabbage’s International launch focusing on both internationalization and localization

• Implemented UPS’s first third-party data sharing integration allowing UPS customers to obtain access to capital based solely on their shipping data• Designed, coded, and deployed an integration with ThreatMetrix; a third-party fraud detection tool used to profile customers and devices to detect their possible level of threat to Kabbage’s system

• Led an initiative to usher in Scrum, an agile, team-based, light-weight process or methodology for developing complex software systems or products, to a team of seven engineers, eventually becoming a Certified ScrumMaster• Responsible for taking high level business requirements and breaking them down into design specifications that resulted in user stories which would be estimated and worked on by the team• Designed and implemented the search component of a commercial auction website allowing users to search and filter over 500,000 active listings and 14.7 million archived listings• Following the principals of domain-driven design and test-driven development, created an ASP.NET MVC website with a SQL Server back end to serve as a type of online catalog• Responsible for ensuring the appropriate architecture, design, and test-driven development principals were followed by an external contracting firm on the development of a .NET client-server application that interacts with a RESTful API allowing users to push items to a commercial auction website• Designed, developed, and supported an ASP.NET MVC RESTful API offering users an alternative interface to a commercial auction website• Created a set of performance-based website acceptance criteria based on IIS stats and other website traffic data for an ASP.NET website, then used the Microsoft Visual Studio Test Suite’s performance, load, and stress testing tools to ensure the website met the acceptance criteria• Worked on the conversion of a 267 page commercial auction website with 1.9 million registered users and 2 million unique visitors a month, from Classic ASP to ASP.NET using C#, .netTiers, COM, Microsoft SQL Server, Selenium, and NUnit• Designed and implemented a virtualization strategy for an organization in need of an easy way to simulate production environments for testing purposes using VMware Server and VMware Converter

• Worked on the development and deployment of Ace DecisionMAX, a data-driven, component-based, client-server application using C#, Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM MQ Series• Created design specifications, conducted code reviews, and served as a mentor for junior members of the Ace DecisionMAX team• Became the technical owner of Ace DecisionMAX responsible for the design, development, and support of the product beginning in October 2006• Designed, developed, and supported the Resource Management Toolkit, a C# ASP.NET web application that served as a project and resource management tool• Maintained and supported the Production Support Toolkit, a C# ASP.NET web application that served as a tool to manage all production support issues within a department• Mentored a remote team of employees on the use of Microsoft Visual Studio, C#, and the basic concepts of object-oriented programming• Collaborated with a team of architects and developers to establish a methodology that focused on agile software principles and test-driven development• Developed and maintained batch and on-line COBOL programs using CICS, IMS, and JCL to create client extracts, perform VSAM file updates, and facilitate the regular processing of various mainframe applications• Performed production on-call responsibilities that included resolving issues for three separate mainframe applications utilizing COBOL, CICS, VSAM, and JCL technologies