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New York, United States

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Decentralized Protocol DevelopmentWe are building a protocol to decentralize access to various blockchain networks through a network of JSON-RPC node providers. Currently, our service operates in a centralized manner, managing network traffic for partners like Infura and MetaMask. This initiative is being developed in collaboration with a community of provider partners and developers who share our vision.My RoleAs a key member of the team, I am leading the transition from a centralized system to a fully decentralized architecture. My responsibilities include: • Enhancing the DIN proxy router to improve consistency, performance, and configurability. • Coordinating the development of a smart contract registry. • Integrating new blockchain networks directly into Infura. • Researching and implementing decentralized tools to optimize system performance. • Managing development tasks and ensuring their timely execution. • Addressing and resolving network traffic issues to maintain system reliability.More Information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7n4xMpMcWM

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Billing Migration ProjectI was able be the lead engineer on project shifting the Infura billing system away from Stripe based pay per api request billing architecture to an event based credit unit billing architecture on MaxioLead the efforts amongst the team in getting this project completed on multiple fronts, including from a product management, project management and QA perspective.Created a billing SDKTechnical accomplishments- Supporting millions of billing events per minute via a highly scalable and available infrastructure- Successfully migrated over 1.2 million customers from one platform to the other.- Created a Golang based billing SDK that allowed a number of internal teams to access our Kafka based aggregation a queuing system as well as gives sdk users the option to aggregate within the SDK.- Designing the billing plan structure within the new billing platform- Integrating billing into our GL accounting platform NetSuite- Introducing billing support for our manual paying customers who were being tracked by hand previously- Handled billing platform events via Webhook to interact with our internal syste

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

As the Merchant Risk Engineering Team Lead my roles and responsibilities increased from an organizational point of view on top of my existing responsibilities as the Lead Merchant Risk Engineer.- Started officially managing the growing Merchant Risk Engineering team- Architected and oversaw development work done by new Merchant Risk Engineers ensuring that our company's code standards were upheld.- Ensured project requirements were clearly defined and made sure that projects were delivered on time- Took a leadership role within our overall Risk Team, mentoring, and helping debug fellow team members as they got up to speed with the work on our team.Blockchain Product Inquiry- On my own accord, I researched the viability of integrating DeFi blockchain technology within our product in its different forms.- Project managed an internal team of Executive, Legal and Senior Level Employees spearheading the effort to receive organizational buy in to our proposed product.- Connected with and set up meetings with various DeFi related 3rd parties that could possibly make the concept a reality.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

As the sole Merchant Risk developer, I accomplished the following within our Golang/React software ecosystem:- Project lead and Developed a number of fraud/risk metric related third party API integration projects for cohesion within our ecosystem using a distributed service model- Created Sezzle’s Automatic Merchant Fraud detection system that freezes merchants suspected of fraud- Created Sezzle’s Automatic Merchant Application Decisioning system that flags, approves or declines merchants based on the risk metrics associated with them- Continuously improved and augmented our React based Admin-Dashboard for an improved fraud/risk data based experience for our analysts.- Created SQL transformations for use within our Redshift data-lake and visualization within our Redash dashboard.- Constantly wrote tests to support all code that was written as well as participated in the daily practice of reviewing my peer’s code.- Lead weekly scope requirement touch base meetings with the Risk Analyst team to ensure everyone was on the same page.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Initial creator and manager of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Employee Resource Group at Sezzle. Transitioned to the lead of the subcommittee of Representation and Retention. - Organized and lead initial DEI conversations - Helped create the 2021 strategy for hiring more people of color at the company - Generated and reported on Q1 company wide HRIS representation data via UKG software - Helped draft company documentation regarding DEI metrics and goals - Presented ideas and DEI vision for Executive Leadership and larger company population

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Full-Stack DeveloperContributed to our credit/risk and fraud decisioning engine using Golang, Python, and, React/Redux

Responsible for tenant relations as well as the care and maintenance of my properties.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Created various internal web applications and web API’s using the Flask, Django and React.js frameworks.Cloud Administrator for the company, created, configured and deployed our virtual machineshosted within the Azure Cloud Platform.Created and configured a Virtual Private Network that hosted our internal machines for heightened security.Dockerized our applications as well as created Docker-Compose and Kubernetes deployments for them.Wrote a series of python based scripts launching nightly jobs for data maintenance.

Developed and maintained a node.js/express.js web API using the Swagger specification framework. The API is hosted as a serverless AWS Lambda function.Created the database schema and ruleset for our document style no-sql firebase. Worked on populating/transforming to data in this database with real time data from live api's (Location, Weather, Places of Interest) as well as data from our multiple apps.Created our entire alerting and monitoring system by setting metric thresholds on all of our products/platforms/services across many sources. This includes uptime checks, memory/cpu usage, latency on our websites and cloud services (AWS, GCP). Then I funneled all of this monitoring data into a 3rd party platform paging system along with our company's status page.As an admin to all of our software systems, I set up user access controls for all of our platforms. In addition, I facilitate new employee on boarding of these softwares as well as removing users when they leave the company.Set up a data pipeline that routes data from our firebase to AWS Redshift via Firebase function triggers, AWS Gateway, AWS Kinesis and AWS Lambda.Created various architectural overview/process documents including guidelines to our application release process.

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Wandr was a student led startup.My roles at Wandr have included designing and programming the landing page for the pre-beta website, configuring and implementing third party applications and developing analytic node.js applications to run on our server using various technologies such as Google cloud platform and Firebase.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

During my time as an Intern at Ameriprise Financial, I was able to become an active member of a Compliance Technology project team. Here I developed a compliance archive adapter (Java) that converted internal communication instances (ie. Microsoft Lync conversations) from an XML format into email format so it would be compatible with our archiving vault. The adapter was built with the ability to configure important properties and paths to work with multiple provider sources.

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

My responsibilities included recording in studio lectures for professors who were planning an online course, then editing these videos and uploading them to the global course website Coursera.