I have been a generalist engineer for more than 20 years, with much of that time in tech heavy leadership roles. I have worked in a full stack poly glot environment, mainly focused on Python and Ruby/Rails with special focus on the backend, scaling and security. As a leader I have coordinated and encouraged teams, and assisted in planning and design, and also in complex system troubleshooting and challenge solving. My background makes me especially good at helping make good engineering choices that ensure the ability to grow product and scale rapidly, but without breaks on creativity.I have also gained business operations skills for small tech companies in my executive role at RescueTime.– Technology strategy and delivery for fast growth startups– Currently building in Python and Ruby polyglot environment– Designing for automated cloud deployment– Coordinating software development that relies on many codebases, including native apps, server-side and analytics– Engineering for an asynchronous and parallelized with large data volumes environmentRecent interesting work at RescueTime:– Planning and engineering major infrastructure updates on a live high volume environment – Performance modeling to get more out of less in a impact oriented targeted way– Security plan implementation and engineering considerations to support latest privacy standardsIf long experience lists are your thing, contact me. Resumés are so passé, thanks to RescueTime...Specialties: startup business development, executive and external technical communications, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python server side, SQL, nginx, Amazon AWS, MySQL, software architecture, platform architecture, and more.
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