As the founder of Vertex Web, I am involved in all aspects of bringing writersengine.com and a new not-yet-released product to life.I spend my time on the following:- Writing backend code in Python, PostgreSQL, Celery, Redis, OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, and associated technologies.- Writing frontend code in React, Tailwind, and Bulma, as well as optimizing the frontend for quick delivery.- All infrastructure related tasks, including deployment, metrics, CI, and uptime using tools like CloudFlare, New Relic, Sentry, Kamal, Ansible, Digital Ocean, and Terraform.- Newbie Marketing, specifically managing my meager advertising budget to expand awareness.- SEO, drawing on several years in the trenches- Everything else it takes to run a business

As the VP of Engineering for January, I was responsible for leading 4 teams revolutionizing the debt collection industry. Responsibilities included:- Construction of annual roadmaps, helping drive the team towards long-term investments in Engineering.- Working closely with our People Team to recruiting a stellar engineering team- Mentoring engineers and engineering leadership to grow through creating expectations, building roadmaps, and helping clear the path to success.- Close collaboration with my VP peers to collaboratively achieve goals.- Building robust processes for teams emphasizing personal ownership of those processes and tasks- Expanding the horizon of what teams consider to help them build roadmaps to achieve even more- As necessary, diving into the details and using my many years of experience as an engineer

In this position, I was an Engineering Director for the Backend Platform Group. I managed 7 teams (each with their own team leads or managers) that produce high quality frameworks, microservices, libraries, and solutions that enable high quality solutions for our customers.Over my years at Squarespace, I managed an incredible breadth of activities. Some highlights include:- Directly managing a team that worked closely with our infrastructure team to migrate our VM's to Kubernetes, massively reducing on-call load and improving our ability to scale our clusters in response to traffic changes.- Introducing a microservices framework supporting dozens of services across our organization. We developed internal functionality to easily roll out feature and security changes across the organization easily.- Migrated over a petabyte of storage from legacy Isolon rack storage into Google Cloud Storage. Along the way, inventing mechanisms in our legacy system to failover between datacenters without loss. - Massively improved the performance of our image processing pipeline, reducing the time between upload and full functionality being present.- Collaborating heavily with my teams to produce roadmaps that concentrated on delivering high-value projects across the organization.- Mentorship of engineers from entry level to staff level, providing them tools and frameworks to think about their growth.- Mentorship of team leads through senior managers, helping them understand how to grow teams and processes to face their largest challenges.

* Lead architect and author of RMN's personalization effort, answering the question "How can we suggest better coupons for our visitors based on what we know about them"* Developed and integrated a fully featured service architecture, enabling us to between split work between teams and provide better distribution of load across our architecture.* Lead a team of varying sizes, providing guidance on scaling, maintainability, and performance.

Guided a performance upgrade in a risk management system to allow retrieval of several types of data for a model in the microsecond scale.

Design and deliver daily business value though 2 high volume assets, Shopzilla.com and Bizrate.com. Work as a mentor across the various site teams at Shopzilla, continuing to push forward the state of the art. Tirelessly attempt to make myself obsolete by promoting the accomplishments of my employees and teaching them everything that I know.

At Project.net, I worked tirelessly to implement new ways to make the company more enticing to perspective clients. Major projects included a 100% online Microsoft Project work-alike product, real-time graphs and charts of project data, and e-commerce integration.

Re-architected a system build on an internally developed scripting language to use early J2EE technologies.

Original joined as an employee of Comps Infosystems, where I helped introduced the company's first web applications into production. Lead several small product teams with an emphasis on decreasing delivery time to production.

Technical lead and development manager of a real-estate startup

Re-implemented customer relationship management system.