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Upstart delivered lower-interest personal loans through AI-augmented underwriting. I helped decompose their monolith and enable scalability. I enabled $10,000/mo savings in AWS costs through optimizing CI tests. I coordinated and led 5 LATAM contractors in service of core re-platforming KPI to extract and scale the core business logic.

GovCIO helps government agencies run faster and easier. I delivered 40% improvement in va.gov responsiveness by reducing database load by ~85% through cache strategy optimization. I was the sole backend engineer on the team responsible for Facilities API, which was responsible for 70% of site traffic with the mandate to improve veteran provider search experience.

Austin, Texas Area

Rapid7 offers various security solutions and services. I reduced the CI test run time from 20 hours to 45 minutes through non-trivial parallelization. I was promoted to Lead Software Engineer on the Quality Engineering team in a Player-Coach role.

Maintenance and enhancement of existing Ruby on Rails applicationPorted existing single system to a scalable cloud system (Heroku ready)Forked existing Heroku Rails gem and published to GitHub (Heroku Rails SaaS)Brought C0 test coverage of application from 10% to 100%Introduced and applied Continuous Integration methodology

Developed a Ruby on Rails based lead generation systemMaintained a business to business API with REST and SOAPIntroduced test driven development (TDD) and continuous integrationWeb Security Testing: XSS, CSRF, SQL Injection

Ported a legacy database application to ASP/MSSQL web app.Automated Integration testing with Watir and Ruby.Prototyped Unified Login management application with Ruby on Rails

Provide customer support by email and phone, software and hardware issues related to:dial up, DSL, point-to-point wireless, and other connections.Basic support for web design and publishing (CSS, PHP, Server side scripting), program for internal projects in several different languages and platformsDeveloped and Deployed an internal Ruby on Rails web application for Project managementGoogle earth based tool written in Ruby to pre-qualify a Line of Site based Wireless serviceRuby Scripts to automate system administrator functions.

Installed and maintained Windows servers (MSSQL, IIS) supplying on-demand instructional courses.Windows Media StreamingBreezeTroubleshooting Windows media content to distance-learning students over an Internet stream.Streamlined Server Communication to triple capacity.

Installed and maintained UNIX servers (Apache, MYSQL, Oracle, NFS, Samba) providing basic Internet services to user machines in a campus-wide area network.Regularly maintained and upgraded over 150 lab computers and servers.