• Led a team of three other engineers, including a recent bootcamp graduate I hired and successfully mentored into a very productive team member• Trained junior engineers in software design principles• Worked with the Lead Architect to establish engineering practices for the entire company• Inherited and shipped a long overdue project with potentially disastrous failure scenarios• Rebuilt the core task scheduling system to make it more correct, stable, comprehensible and extensible• Fundamentally changed the way automated testing was done, training the entire engineering team on how to test better• Untangled long misunderstood legacy functionality for business stakeholders, successfully advocating for deep simplifications in many areas• Tasked with building and maintaining those systems that most directly impacted revenue

• Led efforts in merchandizing, trying to match items to users in a store composed entirely of unique items, known through user-generated attributes.• Helping to grow the software design sensibilities of the team through pairing and lunchtime presentations• Rebuilt the core data model around posting, claiming, and shipping items, using append-only techniques to allow an auditable of all activities that also preserved performance requirements.• Working with the Lead Engineer, CEO, and Head of Product to set priorities both within my focus area of merchandizing and in issues around scaling, and system architecture

Engineering experience• Authored ~50k lines of code for a successful enterprise product• Felt the pain of poor architectural decisions and the freedom of good ones• Built an internal Rails application for monitoring and servicing hundreds ofproduction servers at remote customer locations• Built a RESTful API on for our main product and helped with customers integration• Built an internal Rails application for managing testing infrastructure and resources• Worked with other engineers on system design and interface specs• Performed remote sys-admin tasks for hundreds of remote customer servers (Linux)Other experience• Guided product design through research, prototyping, and customer interviews• Provided sales engineering support, helping to close $500k in new business• Developed testing protocols and managed QA testers• Interfaced with our OEM manufacturer on production of our hardware platform• Took out the trash, installed an air conditioner, negotiated rent, etc. etc. etc. etc.!