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Stoked Seagull is a software consultancy specializing in custom web development. We recruit top software engineers from high performing tech companies and make them available to you.Need help with existing software project or have an idea you want to bring to life? Feel free to reach out.

Highlight uses web3 and Ethereum technologies to empower creative people and their fan communities to thrive together. I cofounded the company, raised two rounds of funding from top investors, recruited the 9 person engineering team, and lead them through two product launches.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Trusted Identity enables merchants of any complexity to get activated and stay activated on Square. We enable international expansion by building an identity platform with configurable Compliance and Tax controls for Square products.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Operations Engineering uses product management, design, engineering, and data science expertise to scale Square's Customer Success, Compliance, and Tax operations globally.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Support Engineering uses product management, design, engineering, and data science to scale Square's Customer Success operations globally.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Software Engineer on the Internal Products Team. I built full stack Ruby applications to scale Support, Compliance, Risk, and Product operations at Square.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Action Factory is a next generation digital publishing company focusing on premium evergreen content and lifestyle brands.As Director of Engineering, I was responsible for all engineering operations, including building and maintaining our products and recruiting and managing our team of engineers. Our primary product was a custom Ruby on Rails app that helped us maximize our advertising yield across a variety of web properties using real time bidding advertising networks.

Matthews Consulting Group was the LLC that encapsulated my independent consulting work in the Washington DC area. I specialized in building custom software for small to medium businesses using Ruby on Rails and Java technology. Clients included the Washington Post and the US Department of Defense (through Mav6).

I designed and coded a cloud-based VPN system, including Linux backend, Windows and OS X desktop clients, and Ruby on Rails middleware.

Arlington, Va, Us

I worked as the lead developer of a project that leverages semantic web technologies to improve the testing of anti-IED systems for the U.S. military. As the lead developer, I designed the architecture as well. The web application has a Java front-end which uses Java tag libraries and the jQuery javascript library to provide AJAX functionality. This front-end connects to Java Servlets, which connect to a Topbraid Live Semantic Web back-end database. Topbraid Live allows multiple heterogeneous datasources to be queried as one unified schema using SPARQL. SPIN rules are also used to infer relationships based on a set of SPARQL queries. I obtained a Secret Security Clearance for this project.

Washington, Dc, Us

While at The Washington Post, I worked as a developer on Sprig.com. I primarily worked on the front end, developing XHTML, CSS, and Javascript that is compatible with IE 6/7, Firefox 2/3, Opera, and Safari. The content management system of Sprig.com output XML, which I transformed with XSLT into XHTML. From there, I styled the XHTML with CSS to match a given layout. I also worked heavily with the JQuery Javascript framework. In particular, I developed the dynamic slideshow component on the center of the home page as well as the carousel on the footer on every page besides the home page. While my primary duties were on the front end, I also worked on the back end. I wrote a C# utility that issued XQuery queries to Sql Server. I also extended Community Server using C# in order to customize blogging functionality. Finally, I enhanced the search functionality of Sprig.com using C# as well.

Fairfax, Va, Us

My time at Avenity was primarily spent designing and building software applications, as well as leading teams of programmers. I held Development Team Lead positions on projects for multiple clients, including Towers Perrin, Experian, and Digital Sandbox. These projects taught me how to architect and build multi-tiered web and desktop applications using Java and Microsoft .NET. They also relied heavily on complex SQL queries. Aside from the technical skills, I also gained experience with project estimation and management, as well as client management.

At AMS, I held the position of Associate. My daily responsibilities included programming a Java web application for Fannie Mae which facilitated loan acquisition. This involved meeting with the client to discuss what the web application should accomplish, followed by programming the application according to the client’s needs. I also worked as a developer on the configuration management team. I was responsible for arriving at work before the rest of the team, building the software, deploying the software to multiple testing environments, and providing support throughout the day for a team of thirty software testers.

Masters Of Technology Management, Technology Management

Bachelor Of Science And Engineering, Computer Science