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Beaverton, Oregon, Us

• Designed and directed the implementation of a comprehensive overhaul of the internal payment processing service, with a focus on enhancing refund functionality and managing service fees.• Planned and managed the modernization efforts for both Inventory and Order Management systems.• Maintained team focus on user-centric features by addressing critical business tasks, including fraud prevention, international financial compliance, and AWS migration.• Provided mentorship to engineering team members, engineers from other teams, and Product team members.• Developed reporting dashboards to support critical business decision-making.

Beaverton, Oregon, Us

Technical lead responsible for guiding technical decisions, mentoring, and filling in the gaps where needed in the Discogs marketplace.* Helped complete integration and deployment of a modern PayPal Commerce payment platform.* Developed technical process framework for ADA remedation tasks.* Implemented and deployed badge system under tight deadline.* Advised in Confluence documentation process.* Work across teams to ensure coordinated efforts and knowledge sharing.

San Diego, Ca, Us

• Leading off-shore team of approximately 10 developers and test engineers in expanding recurring donation frequency options via of refactoring node and MySQL back end to support recurrence rule-backed scheduling system and expanding Angular and React UI with zero downtime nor negative impact to payment processing and processor integrations to keep Classy a best-in-class fundraising platform for non-profits.• Led in-house team of 15 in delivering crucial templating feature to key client by unblocking near-shore contractors and developing in React, GraphQL, and Elasticsearch to ensure deadlines were met.• Managing maintenance of long-standing tech debt items across 4 internal services.• Pivotal member in 3 in-house guilds providing mentorship to other teammates and insight to set company policies.• Embodying Classy's core values through experienced servant leadership.• Leading projects to update and enhance development environments, developer quality of life, and improving confidence in scheduled releases.

Worked in the pastry commissary kitchen supplying the four local locations with pies and pop tarts. Made cookies for my location. Slung biscuits.

Novato, Ca, Us

• Developed company's technical vision reporting directly to executive team.• Participated in client presentations describing technical solutions to client feature requests.• Produced functional and technical specifications for projects.• Developed interdepartmental knowledge sharing process and ran training sessions for non-technical teams.• Mentored and supported team of five developers and designers.• Developed and implement company's technical vision.• Provided support and guidance to clients.• Rearchitected client's different e-commerce platforms into single Shopify experience with custom integration to Great Plains instance.• Developed POC for lead generation chatbot using Flask for RESTful API connected to Twilio for SMS communication and AWS Lex forparsing.• Developed Python modules for geolocation, data consumption from Google AdWords and other APIs, and data analysis (with pandas).• Architected automated bid optimization platform for search engine marketing team using Python 3 AI microservice and Google AppScripts.• Architected web application for automating deployment of custom WordPress plugins and themes using Flask for RESTful API andEmberJS 3.x.• Patched custom plugins and themes across ~30 sites to be compliant with PHP 7.x migration.• Restructured code deployment workflow to include formal, Github-backed code reviews.• Alongside sysadmin, tightened AWS security through effective use of security policies and VPCs.• Developed and implemented GDPR policies and processes alongside executive team and senior management in narrow time frame.

Novato, Ca, Us

• Lead team of 5-8 developers and designers, mentoring and architecting solutions for client and internal projects.• Guided executive team in technical decisions and helped implement technical vision.• Developed software solutions for client projects.• Lead team in the development of internal reporting dashboard project using Python's Pyramid framework and Angular 1.• Ported loose collection of PHP ETL scripts into a robust RESTful API capable of gracefully handling changes to data structure.• Developed custom tracking pixel using Symfony framework and connecting to AWS Kinesis.• Developed custom plugins client for WordPress 4.x and 5.x sites.• Developed custom PTO request plugin for internal WordPress 4.x/5.x site integrating with ADP to automate display and debiting of hours.

• Mentored small team of junior web developers.• Supported upper management in accreditation project by developing documentation.• Maintained and extended a custom-built learning management system.• Maintained billing system.• Engineering support to clients.• Rearchitected credit card payment system from a loose collection of shell scripts to PCI-compliant payment processor Braintree.• Designed, built, and deployed custom LMS code editor for courses using ExtJS and PHP, improving maintainability and security.• Implemented visual redesign of department's website.• Mentored small team of developers.• Migrated existing PHP 4.x codebase to 5.x to make use of OOP functionality.• Migrated code versioning system from CVS to SVN.

Sebastopol, Ca, Us

• Created, maintained, and extended sales reporting ETL systems.• Maintained existing software systems across additional departments.• Facilitated transition from obsolete ERP solution to Oracle-based ERP providing technical insight for existing systems.• Developed new ETL system in PHP leveraging an ORM and connection pooling that improved reporting accuracy by over 10% and decreased load times.• Developed reporting tools using XHR to connect to new data warehouse that provided steering committee with daily, ratherthan weekly, insights into business performance.• Developed internal dashboard reporting tool using Ruby on Rails.• Developed "sell sheet" generation feature for sales team using XSLT to translate HTML into a PDF.• Developed chart generation using LaTeX adding a variety of reports.• Updated bespoke Perl-MySQL data binding system to support MySQL 5.

Sebastopol, Ca, Us

• Promoted to lead dev of Product Database tool used for tracking product development from concept to production.• Maintained and extended internal Perl-based tools.

Sebastopol, Ca, Us

A hands-on, learning internship, assistant to the lead developer of the PDB internal web application. The PDB is a massive application serving as the backbone for the publishing portion of the business tracking book metadata from every stage of the process for worldwide offices. Learned best practices for web development, such as staged deployment, as well as some of the finer points of MySQL administration and replication.Maintained Product Database using Perl, XML, and MySQL technologies, including unique ORM solution to handle data. Debugged smaller, internal Perl-based tools.