Principal Engineer
Akira, Inc.
Santa Cruz
Akira is a software consultancy. Projects:• Intuvo, a marketing automation software platform tailored for the banking industry, boosting lending business up to 30%. Clients include Boeing Employee Credit Union, GTE Financial, Chevron Federal Credit Union and American Airlines Credit Union. o Took application from design specification to production for new product line, using Angular. o Automated the scrubbing of SSNs and account numbers from client data uploads, eliminating $70m of regulatory liability, using PowerShell. o Introduced continuous integration into the dev workflow, using Jenkins. o Evaluated 22 Javascript WYSIWYG editors to find a replacement for a Java applet WYSIWYG, for use in editing HTML-based emails. Recommended TinyMCE to management, and rolled it out across Angular and Cold Fusion product lines. o Identified and mitigated corrupt MS SQL database content across 74 databases. o Evaluated cache performance, and defined best practice for each application layer. Reduced initial page load time by 45%, and subsequent loads by 82%.• CamFusion, a POV video distribution and marketing platform, and an IOS app. o Led a team of 2 onsite devs building the API layer, and an offshore team building the IOS app. o Managed the content acquisition team. o Java, Python, MySQL, memcache, LDAP, Tcl, Vzaar, Wowza• AccessNetwork, A Place Of Interest (POI) API service. o The POI API was spun out of the acquisition of BlackBook by Vibe, and I was tasked with migrating the platform to AWS while ensuring continuity for existing clients. o AWS, puppet, chef, varnish, php, scala, mongodb, MySQL, sphinx, kestrel, solr• Wishfrogs, a twitter-based donation service. o Individual contributor, performing feature development and support. o RoR, Heroku, Stripe• LulzWithFriends, a Cards Against Humanity game, mixed into a social network. o Led a team of 2 building a proof of concept. o RoR, Heroku, Facebook and Twitter integration