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New York, NY, US

New York, United States

• Provide strategic technical leadership to pre-seed and seed-stage ed tech startups, guiding architecture design, technology stack selection, and best practices to ensure scalable and robust solutions.
• Spearhead the development and deployment of innovative software solutions, leveraging agile methodologies to deliver high-quality products on time.
• Conduct comprehensive code reviews and performance audits, resolving critical issues to improve system reliability and reduce downtime by 30%.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical roadmaps with business goals, driving innovation and achieving a 25% increase in user satisfaction and retention.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers and technical teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development, resulting in enhanced team performance and skill growth.

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

• Successfully managed and strengthened the technical relationship with our largest and long-term strategic partners
• Led on-site engagements with key partners, leading to the identification and successful closure of 5 major business opportunities
• Spearheaded and executed global initiatives to improve team efficiency and streamline processes, resulting in a 10% increase in productivity
• Developed and executed strategic implementation plans in collaboration with partners
• Demonstrated a deep understanding of partner challenges and actively advocated for product enhancements, resulting in a 20% improvement in partner satisfaction and a 10% decrease in support tickets related to partner.
• Developed expertise on multiple monetization platforms (Google Ad Manager, Google Ad Exchange, AdWords)

Greater New York City Area

• Designed and implemented a feature flags web service, supporting a company-wide initiative for continuous deployment, resulting in a 20% reduction in release cycle time and increased development velocity.
• Developed comprehensive benchmarks to test, compare, and monitor application performance, leading to a 12% improvement in response time and increased scalability for high-traffic scenarios.
• Successfully reduced load and latency by 15% on a heavily trafficked web service by implementing Nginx caching strategies, resulting in improved user experience and faster page load times.
• Effectively managed application concurrency and throughput using Play Framework, Akka actors, and messaging systems
• Optimized database query performance through query tuning, indexing, and caching techniques, resulting in a 30% reduction in database response time and improved overall application efficiency.
• Implemented automated testing processes using frameworks such as JUnit and Selenium.

1 Hess Plaza, Woodbridge, NJ, 07095

• Part of the Hess Corporation & Direct Energy merger.
• Developed a user-friendly job scheduling web interface, resulting in a 20% improvement in team efficiency and streamlined job maintenance and analytics processes.
• Successfully refactored and optimized 4 existing ASP.NET applications, improving performance by 25%.
• Played a key role in the seamless transition of applications and dependencies from one company to another, leveraging AWS services to ensure a smooth migration process and minimize downtime.
• Revamped a heavily used web application into a responsive single-page website using Bootstrap, MVC 4, Backbone.js, require.js, jQuery, and DataTables. This redesign improved user experience, resulting in a 15% increase.
• Took ownership of the billing verification application, ensuring accurate and efficient billing processes. Additionally shared responsibility for the billing system, collaborating with cross-functional teams to address.

605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158

• Led the successful creation and maintenance of 16 web reporting pages, reducing load time by 30%.
• Utilized Java-based Spring Framework to handle HTTP requests and perform efficient SQL database mining, resulting in improved data retrieval speed by 25%.
• Effectively managed web content using Ext JS Framework, implementing customized layouts that enhanced user experience and increased engagement by 20%.
• Constructed dynamic web templates and visually appealing graphs using FreeMarker and JavaScript-based FusionCharts, enhancing data visualization capabilities and facilitating data-driven decision-making.
• Proactively addressed and resolved database performance issues as tables scaled into the millions of rows, implementing indexing strategies that reduced query response time by 40%

400 Connell Drive, Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922

• Collaborated with a small team to develop and implement custom internal performance metrics, resulting in a 15% improvement in team productivity and more efficient decision-making processes.
• Constructed a scalable Ruby on Rails web application to support medium-sized traffic
• Developed an intuitive frontend web layout utilizing Twitter Bootstrap and HTML5 Boilerplate, improving user interface
• Implemented interactive data displays using D3.js, enabling data transparency and improving data visualization
• Successfully adopted agile development methodologies, including paired programming and test-driven development, resulting in improved code quality, faster development cycles, and higher customer satisfaction.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical Engineering