I joined QuickNode, inspired by Auston Bunsen's vision of a marketplace full of web3 developer tools built on the company's blockchain infrastructure.At QuickNode, I’ve had the chance to help turn that vision into reality:• 🚀 Leadership: I led the launch of the QuickNode Marketplace, which now features nearly 50 add-ons and serves hundreds of millions of API requests every month. This platform has become a vital resource for web3 developers.• 💥 Revenue Impact: The Marketplace has become one of the fastest revenue-generating products at QuickNode, a testament to our focus on building something that people truly want. Marketplace add-ons are being used by major web3 players, by web2 companies entering the web3 space, and by traditional finance giants.• 🌟 Product Development: We’ve set up the Marketplace to let developers quickly roll out new products. One of our recent launches was up and running in less than a day, and started making money in just two days, showing just how quickly we can innovate thanks to the Marketplace.• 🤝 Partner Onboarding: I onboard our partners into the Marketplace, selling them on why they should join, teaching them how to build an add-on, and answering any technical questions they have to ensure a smooth integration and collaboration. We’ve enabled different partners to generate revenue from their APIs, whether they are established web3 brands, venture-backed startups, or talented solo developers.• 💻 Collaboration: I've worked across teams to oversee significant updates to the QuickNode customer portal, including building new features, implementing improvements that cut support tickets by about 20%, introducing advanced performance monitoring tools, and managing multiple database migrations. These efforts have substantially enhanced our system’s scalability and efficiency.• 🎤 Conferences: I've represented the company at multiple blockchain conferences, including NFT Paris, Paris Blockchain Week, and ETH Miami.

I co-founded Bluejay Labs as a side hustle in 2014, nurturing it into a successful enterprise with a solid six-digit annual recurring revenue (ARR), all while excelling in pivotal roles elsewhere. Leveraging Ruby on Rails, I built and manage the software development and deployment for all our key products:• 📧 htmlsig.com: Streamlines email signature management for businesses, simplifying the creation and uniformity of professional email signatures across an organization.• 📇 businesscards.io: Modernizes networking through digital business cards, offering a sustainable and cutting-edge alternative to traditional business card exchanges.• 🤖 qrdex.io: Facilitates information sharing with customizable QR codes, enhancing engagement and accessibility for restaurants and marketing teams globally.• 🔐 passpass.co: Ensures secure password sharing among teams, providing a reliable and safe platform to manage and distribute sensitive information securely.My commitment to Bluejay Labs has paralleled significant contributions at other leading tech firms, including driving a new profitable line of business at QuickNode, earning a promotion to CTO at Intellum, and successfully building and selling Octopi to Cargotec. My work across these ventures demonstrates a unique capacity to lead and innovate in tech, both as an entrepreneur and a tech executive.

As a board member at Roots of Development, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to fostering sustainable development practices globally, I am deeply committed to advancing our mission of empowering communities to lead their fight against poverty. My primary responsibilities include bolstering our fundraising initiatives and providing strategic guidance to enhance our impact. We strive for Development Without Dependency, ensuring that impoverished communities are at the forefront of managing and directing their developmental path.

• 🤝 Coordinated the seamless integration of Octopi into Navis, ensuring continuity and strategic alignment post-acquisition.• 💻 Led software development, customer success, and onboarding teams, significantly expanding our Ruby on Rails application's deployment across over 24 cargo ports and terminals worldwide.• 📈 Drove sales conversations and demonstrations, successfully securing over $5M in bookings within two years.• 👨‍💻 Actively enhanced the Ruby on Rails codebase, improving operational efficiency and customer experiences globally.• 🤝 Engaged directly with sales prospects and existing clients to identify and implement required enhancements and new features.• 🌐 Defined and executed the strategic vision and initiatives for the Octopi by Navis business line, aligning with broader corporate goals.• 🔄 Adopted Basecamp-inspired software development methodologies, boosting team productivity and efficiency in project management.• 🚀 Led a four-person onboarding team, handling complex customer requirements from sale through to successful live software implementation.• 📞 Directed the Customer Success team, ensuring 24/7 support backed by SLAs and maintaining over 99.99% uptime.• 📊 Established KPIs, processes, and best practices for software development, enhancing transparency with visual dashboards for both Octopi and Navis executive teams.• 📝 Created and distributed compelling sales collateral, including marketing one-pagers, videos, a Knowledge Base, and sales decks.• 🔧 Implemented a robust on-call support rotation and engineering team using technologies such as Heroku, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Rails, achieving significant system reliability.• 🌍 Hired, onboarded, and trained over 15 geographically distributed remote employees, building a resilient organizational framework.• 🎤 Provided thought leadership both internally and externally, including conference presentations and videocasts focused on terminal operations.

As Co-Founder and CEO of Octopi, I spearheaded the creation of a transformative SaaS Terminal Operating System (TOS) that revolutionized port terminal operations—a sector we navigated without prior experience. My leadership fueled rapid growth and significant industry accolades:• 🚀 Pioneered the development of Octopi, introducing a groundbreaking SaaS TOS to an industry new to us.• 🌟 Selected as one of the top 10 companies for the Venture Hive startup accelerator in Miami, FL.• 🏆 Emerged as the winner of the Early Stage Startup Competition at eMerge Americas 2016.• 🎤 Regularly spoke and presented at leading industry conferences, establishing thought leadership in logistics and port operations.• 💼 Mastered and implemented SaaS sales best practices, achieving over $3 million in closed sales.• 📈 Scaled the company from scratch to $1M+ in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) with a dedicated team of fewer than 5, all without external funding.• 🔄 Managed all core business functions, including accounting, software engineering, taxes, sales, customer success, marketing, and HR.• 🤝 Led the successful sale of Octopi to Navis and Cargotec, navigating a complex due diligence process while expanding our customer base and software capabilities.

In my role as CTO at Intellum, I spearheaded product development and strategic planning, fostering team growth and enhancing client relationships through innovative technology solutions:• 🚀 Led the development of Intellum’s suite of products, including Exceed, Tribe Social, The Intellum Platform, and SnackerTV, driving product innovation and user satisfaction.• 🗺️ Collaborated with the CEO to define and execute the development roadmap, ensuring timely completion of strategic milestones.• 🔄 Maintained a robust feedback loop with the Client Services team, enhancing product features and customer satisfaction through continuous dialogue.• 🤝 Managed relationships with key clients, ensuring their needs were met and fostering long-term partnerships.• 🛠️ Oversaw the hiring and growth of the software development team from 5 to over 12 members, enhancing team capabilities and project output.• 🌟 Created a work environment that promoted autonomy, mastery, and purpose, ensuring software developers were engaged, fulfilled, and productive.• 📈 Reported on product team progress to the Intellum leadership team, providing transparency and strategic insights into product development.• 💻 Directly contributed to software development using a range of technologies including Node.js, MongoDB, Backbone.js, Ruby on Rails, and Redis.

As a Software Engineer at Intellum, I drove innovation and development, implementing cutting-edge technology solutions and contributing to strategic hiring and community engagement:• 💻 Designed and implemented an enterprise application platform using Ruby on Rails, mimicking an operating system on the web with features such as user management, document storage and versioning, social networking similar to FriendFeed, and calendar event management.• 🔧 Utilized Lean Startup methodologies to develop a solution that enhances employee performance measurement, based on interviews with startup founders, managers, CEOs, and HR professionals.• 🚀 Created a modern Talent Management System (TMS) prototype using Ruby on Rails and Sproutcore, leveraging our startup research to test its effectiveness and value internally.• 🌐 Developed GroupDock, a lightweight enterprise application platform built with Node.js, handling Single Sign-On and providing a central user repository with seamless HR system integration via OAuth.• 🤝 Played a key role in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring new software developers, enhancing the team's capabilities and performance.• 🎤 Represented Intellum at the Node Summit NodeJam in San Francisco (2012), presenting GroupDock.js and boosting our industry presence.• 📢 Regularly presented at local software and entrepreneurship meetups, significantly expanding Intellum's brand and influence in the global tech community.• 🌍 Crafted Tribe Social, an enterprise social networking tool facilitating group communication and idea sharing, built with Node.js, Backbone.js, and MongoDB.• 🛠️ Contributed to open source by releasing grunt-handlebars, mongoose-nested-set, and other tools.• 🧰 Technologies leveraged: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Riak, Redis, Resque, Google Closure Tools, jQuery, Node.js, Backbone.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Chef, Capistrano, jqTouch, Socket.IO, Faye, OAuth, Phonegap/Cordova, and more.

I spearheaded the organization of ErlangDC, a one-day conference dedicated to the Erlang Programming Language in Washington, DC. This event, hosted at the AOL Headquarters in Dulles, VA, brought together Erlang enthusiasts from across the region. Highlights included:• Conducted a morning bootcamp for beginners to learn the basics and explore why Erlang is essential for programmers.• Facilitated advanced Erlang technical talks in the afternoon.• Enabled networking opportunities at lunch and a post-conference Happy Hour that fostered community building and shared learning experiences.• Collaborated with Erlang Solutions and Erlang Factory to deliver an engaging and informative program.The conference was a resounding success, with early-bird tickets selling out quickly and attendees gaining invaluable insights into Erlang, enhancing both their professional skills and networks.

At ShareMeme Inc., I led the company from its inception, overseeing product development, funding, and operational strategies:• 💡 Raised seed and angel funding from Launchbox Digital and angel investors within just four months of developing the prototype.• 🖥️ Designed and developed sharememe.com and messagepub.com from scratch using Ruby on Rails, setting the technical and strategic foundation for our services.• 🔧 Administered the server infrastructure, including deployments of Ubuntu servers with nginx, Thin, Redis, monit, Postfix, and mongrel, ensuring robust and scalable system performance.• 📊 Managed comprehensive online marketing campaigns using tools like Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Google Website Optimizer, StumbleUpon ads, banner ads, and conference sponsorships to maximize reach and engagement.• 📞 Handled customer support for messagepub.com and sharememe.com, directly engaging with users to solve issues and improve service quality based on feedback.

I engaged in a series of six-month rotations across different software teams, gaining both leadership and technical experience to prepare for future engineering leadership roles within the company. Throughout my tenure, I worked on different teams:FIOS TV WEB REMOTE• 📺 Led the development of the Search and Parental Control features for the FIOS TV Web Remote using C#, ASP.NET 2.0, and JavaScript (Prototype + Scriptaculous + JSON).• 🌐 Proposed and implemented a next-generation TV Guide for the FIOS Web Remote using JavaScript, Java, AJAX, XSLT, C#, and ASP.NET 2.0.• 🤝 Coordinated development efforts between the US-based team and the development team in Chennai, India.IT WORKBENCH• 🖥️ Provided customer support for IT Workbench, a central SOA operational infrastructure that manages Verizon's Web Service directory and enhances management capabilities for web service publishers and subscribers.• 🌍 Assisted in managing and supporting the eBroker portion of ITW, enabling interaction of Verizon's Web Services with external Web Services.SUPPLIER PORTAL• 📊 Led the development of Supplier Portal applications including Diversity Spending Reports, Suppliers Excellence Award, and eReport Card using J2EE, JavaScript, HTML, and AJAX.• 🔄 Migrated ClliNet servlets from a JRun server to Weblogic 8.1 and developed a SOAP logging module in C# for ClliNet, enhancing network technicians' access to necessary device codes.VSMS / ACE / OUTAGE ANALYSIS TEAM• 🚨 Served as the liaison between the Outage Analysis Team and the teams responsible for the Verizon Service Management System (VSMS) and Alarm Correlation Engine (ACE).• 🔍 Identified patterns in crisis data that led to outages and programmed the Alarm Correlation Engine to respond to these patterns proactively.• 🖥️ Deployed Sea Of Green VSMS Java applets and network maps for system monitoring, and redesigned the ACE administration GUI using Tcl/Tk, enhancing system usability and reliability.

During my internship at Delphi Electronics & Safety, I contributed to the development and enhancement of automotive electronics with a focus on Toyota car radios:• 📝 Drafted extensive documentation on the power mode design of a Toyota car radio, detailing the technical specifications and operational guidelines.• 🔄 Proposed and implemented an innovative method for automating power mode timing measurements for Toyota radios using C programming and a NEC V850 microprocessor, significantly improving testing efficiency and accuracy.

As an Engineering Intern at GE Security, I initiated and executed projects that enhanced manufacturing efficiency and product quality:• 💡 Initiated, analyzed, and implemented a plan to manufacture a set of cable assemblies in-house, which significantly increased company profits by reducing dependency on external suppliers.• 🛠️ Designed and implemented a cable tester to help reduce defects on the assembly line, using a Motorola 68HC11 microprocessor and assembly language. This innovation contributed to improved product quality and reliability in production.

During my internship at Turbo Systems S.A., I leveraged my technical skills to improve data processes and software implementations:• 🛠️ Implemented a tool using C++ and Oracle OCI that automates the loading of data from Microsoft Excel files into a database, significantly increasing the efficiency of the process.• 📊 Assisted in installing new Oracle-based payroll software for the National Airport Association and trained their employees on its use, enhancing operational efficiency and employee proficiency.