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Hungryroot is your personal assistant for healthy living. We recommend and deliver healthy groceries, recipes and supplements to help you feel your best. Health and wellness is a top priority for 76% of Americans, and yet in many respects, we’re less healthy than ever before. Food is the foundation of health, and eating healthy is hard. The average American spends 13 hours each week thinking about, planning, shopping for, and cooking their food. That’s one full waking day!Now imagine a future in which eating healthy — and more broadly, living a healthy lifestyle — is easy. No more guilt or regret about your food choices. More time and energy to do the things you love. More confidence that you’ve got this. Hungryroot is building that future.

Led a high-performing, globally dispersed team of 7 full-stack software engineers:• Ran biweekly 1:1s for career growth, performance management, and mentoring.• Responsible for hiring and dismissing engineers and giving biannual reviews, promotions, and salary increases.• Drove product innovation by serving as scrum master and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.• Advised on strategy during executive leadership meetings.• Successfully managed from idea to launch a core new product MVP within 1 month. Product was an energy utility data REST API built to scale with subscription billing using Python, Django REST framework, and AWS.• Reduced frequency of emergency incidents through AWS monitoring, attention to increasing test coverage to 80%, and running postmortems.

Founding engineer:• Ramped up team productivity by quickly onboarding and mentoring new engineers.• Increased ARR by over 50% by securing a high-profile prospect who required an accrual accounting projection system and reports. Built using Python, JavaScript, and PostgreSQL.• Enabled team to quickly build new financial dashboards by designing and developing a framework using Python, JavaScript, and Highcharts.• Increased team productivity by improving DevOps SDLC, reducing cycle time with a custom CI/CD pipeline built on Python, Buildbot, EC2, and an in-house fork of Fabric.• Helped lead a re-design of front-end to make it responsive using Django Suit 2 and Bootstrap 5.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Joined a team of 4 engineers at an early-stage startup. Served as technical lead on high-priority projects for a Django web app serving as a back-office suite for energy brokers:• Helped secure new sales with prospects wanting to have control over their data by developing a user-customizable data escrow feature that allowed clients to retain data exports on their cloud storage service of choice. Initially built using Python and Dropbox's API.• Improved report accuracy, render times, testability, and maintainability by designing and implementing a new framework using Python, Django, and PostgreSQL.• Built a client-requested feature for dynamic configurations of complex cash revenue schedules per contract and integrated with our payments system to compare expected with received amounts.• Reduced 40-minute CI build time by 50% by refactoring and optimizing test suite.• Upgraded Linux server infrastructure, including Python, Django, and Ubuntu upgrades.Proposed/implemented engineering best practices and agile processes to improve engineering culture and company productivity:• Improved team efficiency by switching from kanban to 2-week sprints with sprint planning and retrospective meetings.• Improved cross-functional team communication and reduced redundant questions by switching from Google Chat and emails to Slack and setting up proper channels without burdening people with over-communication.• Discouraged data silos through better documentation, knowledge sharing, and demos.• Proposed more efficient meetings by writing emails including agendas to reduce the total amount of billable time each meeting was costing.• Proposed better incident response and error resolution by switching from error emails to Sentry.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States

Improved speed and reliability of ETL application using Python, Django ORM, and PostgreSQL.Increased sales by developing web scrapers to download and upload large quantities of files from and to various data sources using PycURL, requests, and BeautifulSoup.Built out reports and a client-facing data analytics platform using Klipfolio.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States

Managed global Phase III Alzheimer’s disease clinical trial spanning 17 countries:• Dramatically improved client relations after the upset client had requested the prior manager be removed from the team. Started weekly client-facing teleconferences with a presentation including metrics to pinpoint critical trial areas.• Ensured trial was hitting its marks by coordinating multiple cross-functional teams, ranging from data to regulatory to statistics.• Managed recruitment and retention materials in 15 different languages for distribution to over 200 research sites.• Boosted patient recruitment at clinical sites through development of a new marketing initiative.

West Point, Pennsylvania, United States

Led different 2-person teams daily to efficiently execute clinical trial work orders in order to meet multiple aggressive deadlines per day:• Recorded zero deviations while completing and reviewing GMP documentation.• Overhauled the work order scheduling system by collaborating with supervisors.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology/Biological Sciences, General

Web Development