Spearheaded the technical architecture of the solar proposals platform, promoting service-oriented architecture (SOA) and ensuring separation of concerns for modular, maintainable systems.Developed ancillary services to streamline the integration of various 3rd-party APIs, creating a more consistent, scalable interface for external data sources.Designed and built administrative interfaces using Python Flask, enabling efficient interaction with APIs for solar proposal data processing.Created a scalable Ruby on Rails application to handle solar irradiance data, addressing limitations in 3rd-party API availability and ensuring comprehensive data acquisition.Led agile development processes as Scrum Master, optimizing team performance through efficient sprint planning, backlog grooming, and continuous delivery.

Managed a team of around 10-12 people.Helped build and maintain an engineering team with a positive and proactive culture.Facilitated team restructuring and reorganization to be more effective supporting product verticals.Mentored engineers and team leads to become better and more proactive.Focused on promoting a culture of candor and proactivity versus reactivity.Oversaw project converting from our AWS Fargate infrastructure to OpenShift Cloud Platform (Kubernetes).

Introduced RFC process to democratize technical decision making.Hired and mentored people to produce a more collaborative and proactive culture and engineering environment.Worked with stakeholders on better measuring outcomes to ensure success and promoting accountability.Directly supervised about 5 people.

Migrated infrastructure from "bare metal" EC2 instances on AWS to using AWS ECS and Fargate by containerizing applications and better separating concerns.Built more robust automated deploy pipelines using gitlab.Stabilized software and database by writing various software utilities to optimize queries, database indexes, partitioning tables, etc.Refactored authentication system to be able to integrated with and utilize Auth0. This enabled interoperability with SSO.Developed caching mechanism for a legacy PHP (5.6) application using Redis and a custom caching scheme and algorithm.Doing the above, I was able to orchestrate a transition from daily downtime of multiple hours to having greater than 99.9% uptime.

Primary engineering, infrastructure management, and business operations for new case management SaaS product to support guardianships, conservatorships, rep payees, and fiduciaries.

Implemented optimized workflow processes including Scrum. Interacted with product stakeholders, sales, and customer support teams to coordinate more iterative releases of software features. Instituted defect triage process for customer support teams. Acted as a technical liaison between engineers and less technical stakeholders. Provided technical trainings on GraphQL and Test Driven Design.

Ruby on Rails development and maintenance of a monolithic application while breaking out into microservices using domain driven design.Tech lead of product team involved in development of premium/core product feature development.

Managed a team of around 10 software developers. Interfaced with clients to obtain requirements and turn those requirements into a technical specification.Custom software development involving various technologies:Ruby (Sintatra/Grape/Rails)PHP (Cake/Laravel/Other)Python (Django)PerlGo langJava/Kotlin - for android developmentObjective C/Swift - iOS developmentLinux System/network administration on everything from bare metal servers to AWS and other virtualization technologies. Managed approximately 10 developers on various projects while also contributing to many of those same projects.

Ruby on Rails development for various websites. Stripe API integration for eCommerce solutions. Some PHP for legacy site and API development. System administration and provisioning servers to stand up new applications. Used AWS services including S3, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, and DynamoDB.

Installed and maintained radios, computer, network and other communication equipment.Engineered a TACAN relocation for Kandahar AF, Afghanistan.Wrote and maintained unit training materials for electronics maintenance.

Ruby on Rails development for CRM software. Sinatra app development to provide RESTful APIs to merchant boarding and interaction with CRM.

Integrated with insurance companies to verify insurance coverage on vehicles in realtime for a local company in SLC.

eCommerce Development using PHP, CakePHP, Ruby on Rails, and Pinnacle cart.

C, C++, PHP, Perl development of new software and technologies for email marketing software.Aided in design and development of the SmartSender technology as a counterpart to the Enterprise software.

Shell scripting, PHP, C, and Perl coding to support system and network administration operations related to email marketing software.

Linux System/Network Administration with Fedora Core 4 - 7.C Programming to support import into PostgreSQL databases.Realtime Database programming using C, SQL, and BASH scripting.Wrote custom C programs to format/clean data to be imported into databse.Extensive BASH shell scripting was used to automate data import.AWK scripting for additional formatting/conversion of data.FTP and DNS server administration.

Managed user accounts in NIS domains in both Solaris and Fedora Core LinuxManaged user accounts in Active Directory in Windows Server 2003Configured Cisco PIX firewalls and Cisco routers/switchesBash shell scripting in Fedora Core LinuxUsed Symantec Ghost to clone hard drivesPC Hardware Maintenance and Repair

Desktop/GUI application development using 4th Dimension.