Iterating quickly on a new set of products in the fine art and collectables market for auction houses, family offices, and estate management.

- Lead the engineering transition and integration of the ProfitWell team and product over to Paddle - Took ownership of the Platform teams including SRE, Architecture, and Engineering Ops consisting of roughly 20 engineers - Worked closely with security ops to implement best practices for cyber security and compliance

ProfitWell was bootstrapped and was acquired by Paddle in May 2022 🎉 - Reporting to the Co-Founder/CPO, oversaw the growth of the engineering team from an initial size of 5-6 engineers to a robust team of 30, with extremely high retention - Instrumental in building a product now used by nearly 30% of all SaaS companies - Lead the security function of the business, including mentoring engineers on security-first coding practices, acting as the DPO, and getting the product compliant with SOC2 and PCI - Instituted comprehensive engineering best practices, including agile-ish processes, continuous integration, one-click deployments, code reviews, and automated testing - Championed the transition to containerized applications with Docker and orchestrated deployments with Kubernetes, leading to an improvement in system resource efficiency and enabling seamless scaling of applications- Introduced and standardized Infrastructure as Code practices, using tools like Terraform, Docker, and helm, enabling consistent and repeatable environment setups and reducing manual provisioning error

I've contracted with a variety of companies, but mostly local startups, helping to build applications that are fast, robust, and scalable. I made long term relationships with companies where I could make a significant impact augmenting their existing development team. See https://mdcox.net/workSample projects include: - As a primary architect with a very small team within a Fortune 100 healthcare company, created a web and mobile app for consumer health and wellness. Our chosen stack included React Native (iOS and Android), react.js web (ES6), node.js, MongoDB, Neo4j, and RabbitMQ. All of this was architected with a microservices approach in the company's first secure HIPAA compliant AWS deploy. - Rebuilt and consolidated the API for a local high-growth startup that was starting to feel growing pains with their existing API. The new API is written in the latest node.js with ES7 async/await, leveraging Swagger / OpenAPI for API validation and documentation. Tests and coverage in jest. The API also integrates with Kong as an API gateway for consolidated authentication and rate limiting. All of this is deployed to Google Cloud Platform using Kubernetes. - Built the initial product of a new startup (end to end) from a repeat entrepreneur. I had a lot of leeway on the technology stack and I've chosen a mobile-friendly isomorphic (SSR) React application. The API is GraphQL using Apollo's frameworks with TypeScript throughout. Tests in jest as well as some e2e smoke tests using cypress. Deployments are handled via Circle CI to AWS ECS into a Docker Swarm. - Created a custom WYSIWYG editor using React, Redux, and Immutable.js for a Boston startup which is a core component of their product. The editor uses Draft.js for rich text editing where necessary, but is otherwise built from the ground up. Unit tests in enzyme with mocha.

hodsonConsulting was a full service web agency in the Washington DC area. During my tenure I estimate I oversaw the development of between 150 and 200 software projects, managing a team of 30+ project managers, designers, and software engineers. Clients were mostly federal and local government, associations, and non-profits.

Infolinx is a records management software company, primarily selling to large companies and government agencies in the DC area. My role was client implementation. I hired and trained temp workers (and a small number of permanent staff) to label, input, scan, and organize physical file folders. Folders were then synchronized with the Infolinx software and managed with RFID. Clients were mostly large institutions such as the IRS, NSF, and ManTech International.