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New York, United States

New York, New York, Us

Westerville, Ohio, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Sole developer helping build, manage, and define product direction. Assumed control of outsourced, undocumented code base and temporary infrastructure and moved towards stable, deployable, and maintainable setup while simultaneously working with Head of Product and various stakeholders to define next software effort. Started new Rails 6 fullstack majestic monolith, task estimation, timeline development, and daily demo process to move in an agile manner towards regularly changing goals. Mentored two amazing interns and worked closely with and helped manage several external contractors.

New York, New York, Us

Assumed responsibility for legacy Rails 4.2 code base. Implemented processes to document and improve infrastructure, bug monitoring, and feature delivery. Worked on technical debt mitigation initiatives, assumed ownership and DevOps responsibilities of legacy application as well as a newly developed React app. Delivered new feature requirements as well as accessibility updates under tight delivery deadlines. Worked with team on ground up Rails 6 API rewrite initiative of core software product which included database modeling, new CI/CD infrastructure, extensive ETL data pipeline, robust test suite, technology framework evaluations, and complex custom business logic rules engine.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Lead developer on custom in house Rails CMS development and rollout including database design, legacy codebase integration, migration from Wordpress Multisite, user testing, UX, UI, and development of publishing workflow. Worked with a small but mighty dev team to support business goals for internal tools, handling maintenance, refactoring, user support tickets, and new feature development such as a video editing tool, and an elasticsearch backed photo gallery. Responsible for deploying and maintaining infrastructure including custom server configurations. Bringer of many croissants.

Boston, Ma, Us

Work with Startup Institute Web Developer track students. Help introduce them to the Startup Institute curriculum, serve as a resource and advisor, and help work with them as they get their start in the NY Tech ecosystem. Helped to develop and expand upon curriculum and curriculum design.

Lagos, Lagos, Ng

Fullstack work across a custom MEAN stack, deploying to production on day 2. Handled everything from CSS tweaks to server-side optimization, and redis store manipulation for new features. Experience working with AWS ElasticBeanstalk but primarily worked with building infrastructure in AZURE across 5 different machines. Re-factored legacy front end code using Angular, SASS, and Grunt. Helped to build an initial team, including making the first technical hire. Ran daily SCRUM standups and contributed to project management across multiple products.

New York City, New York, Us

Developer-in-Residence worked for portfolio companies on various as needed projects ranging from Liquid templates for Shopify to a Rails MVP to infastructure and dev/ops. Participated in and helped facilitate a high energy, fast paced, amazing startup environment.

New York, Ny, Us

Rails developer on several client projects which included building a custom multilingual CMS from scratch as well as a social networking application for startups. Responsible for front and back end development as well as server provisioning and deployment. Worked with SASS, HAML, JQuery, Coffeescript and advanced topics in Rails including polymorphic associations, services, writing a custom wrapper for a banking SOAP API, and dynamic routing. Worked with multiple APIs including Facebook, Twilio, Linkedin, and Authorize.net. Front end freelance work for Levi’s. Extensive client relationship and project management.

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Rallywho is a dead simple, casual planning service which allows people to co-ordinate real world social outings with their friends. It is cross platform, email independent, and sits on top of existing geo-location databases in order to synthesize and deliver a unique social planning functionality.Raised a seed round of investment. Developed and implemented proof of concept working with a team of developers and designers. Oversaw ground-up UX redesign. Made it to final round of incubator program, implying company valuation of $360,000. Assembled and worked with development team in India. Participated in VC discussions, business model evaluations, and ran business development and marketing efforts resulting in several key content partnerships, including winning meetings with high level decision makers. Responsible for all components of a small business, including Legal and Accounting.

New York, Us

Responsible for target market identification, evaluation, and feature specs for new products. Investigated and evaluated new media platforms, content management systems, and database integration across various products and businesses, working within both Mergermarket and the Financial Times. Reported to CEO and Head of New Product Development.

New York, Us

Managed Research team of 7 people with $300k budget to provide information for M&A business intelligence service. Original member of product team, developing and customizing product for US Markets, promoted twice within one year. Developed and maintained procedures and information sources. Responded directly to client research requests, completing in depth custom reports under deadline. Interfaced with heads of Sales and Editorial teams, directing and managing product strategy and content. Collaborated with Product development and IT teams on technology and product enhancements. Reported directly to Managing Director and CEO of company.

Mfa, Playwriting

Ba Dramatic, Literature

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