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San Francisco, California, Us

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

As a founding engineer, led greenfield development of a next generation back-office software platform for the restaurant industry, enabling smart ordering decisions using AI-powered pricing intelligence and easy management and payment of vendor invoices. - Co-designed an industry-first data model to enable near real-time, cross-vendor pricing intelligence to help restaurants save money through informed ordering decisions- Led efforts to integrate Generative AI into the application; developed a chatbot to allow users to discover pricing trends and compare their prices with regional market averages; built AI features into internal processes to improve data quality and reduce customer onboarding time by 80%- Architected and built a flexible payments solution utilizing multiple payment rails to help restaurants manage their invoices and help vendors get paid faster

Glastonbury, Ct, Us

Worked on a multi-tenant SaaS application for K-12 schools to manage their admissions, enrollment, and scholarship and tuition processes. Led multiple projects to reduce platform costs and increase customer engagement with the application. Worked with other engineers on project design and architecture, ran code reviews, and managed a contract developer team.- Led implementation of a white-labeled Stripe Custom Connect solution, replacing Stripe Express, reducing customer payment processing fees, lowering platform costs, and providing customers a more integrated experience- Interviewed, hired, and managed a team of remote contract developers (US-based) to execute a post-acquisition rebranding effort that included upgrading and unifying UI frameworks across the application and re-implementing legacy javascript and Angular.js features in React- Upgraded an aging Solr cluster to SolrCloud, managed using Apache Zookeeper and deployed to a Kubernetes cluster, improving scalability, reliability, and search performance

Austin, Texas, Us

Worked on a multi-tenant SaaS application used by Fortune 500 companies to manage their social media brands and customer interactions Developed high-concurrency, multi-tenant cloud applications to process and analyze millions of B2C interactions daily.- Developed integrations with social networks including Twitter, Facebook, WeeChat (China), and Line (Japan), which required change tracking and maintenance of multiple APIs- Performed sentiment analysis of millions of social media messages daily, helping platform users to react to customer messages in a timely and appropriate manner- Profiled applications to identify performance issues; developed solutions to optimize code, caching, database utilization, and API calls, reducing cache misses and API calls by 50% and eliminating N+1 database queries- Dockerized our development environment to reduce developer ramp-up time and more closely replicate the production environment during the development- Worked with a distributed, international team based in the US (Texas, Colorado, Georgia) and Hyderabad, India

Austin, Texas, Us

Led development efforts for $20M+ in scientific super-computing and cloud computing research grants at a tier-1 research institution. Managed a group of eight full-time developers and mentored graduate and undergraduate interns.- Used Agile development principles to manage development of web, iOS, and Android applicationsImplemented configuration management, CI/CD, and software testing best practices- Advocated for development standards across projects to improve code reusability and increase developer productivity- Presented work at conferences and meetings across the United States and overseas

Austin, Texas, Us

Developed web applications to support researchers using high-performance computing (HPC) resources.- Developed APIs and services for monitoring activity and performance of supercomputing resources- Proposed, designed, and deployed a data warehouse for analyzing usage patterns across thousands of projects, tens of thousands of users and tens of millions of jobs run on HPC systems- Presented work at conferences and meetings across the United States and overseas

Java Swing development; PostgreSQL Database maintenance. Web development with Java, JavaScript, AJAX, and the Wicket Framework.Responsible for developing new functionality as well as application maintenance such as expanding current functionality and bug fixes.Also assist with network administration of 5 servers (Red Hat, Ubuntu Server, and Windows Server 2003) and over 30 workstations (Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.04).

General Operations manager; managed inventory, ordering, employees;Developed a software module to track inventory, purchasing, and cost/profit analysis.

Masters, Computer Science

B.S., Pure Mathematics