Partner in an early-stage startup focused on digital rights management and monetization.

Worked on back-end application and API development for the Square Online merchant platform. • Present during a period of a 10x scaling of the ECOM engineering team within 4 years.• Helped drive scaling of the Square Online merchant platform from 600 storefronts to 250,000 storefronts within 4 years.• Responsible for keeping the online stores running at significant scale, handling thousands of transactions per day. This included regular weekly on-call rotations.• Collaborated with multiple teams across Square on various features, including Square Pay, On-Demand Delivery, and Recurring Subscriptions Checkout.• Provided technical designs and reviews for various projects within ECOM, paricularly focused on shopping cart, checkout, and payment flows. • Handled integrations and troubleshooting with other 3rd party services like Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.• Led the ECOM Brownbags Presentation Program, which allowed ECOM engineers to introduce new dev-focused learning topics to a larger audience within Square.• Back-end stack: Laravel/Eloquent/MySQL/Elasticsearch• Front-end stack: Vue/Vuex

Worked on full stack application and API development for the e-commerce team. • One of 12 initial hires to help develop and scale out their new e-commerce platform as a set of microservices.• Responsible for keeping the Weebly online stores running at scale, handling thousands of transactions per day. This included regular weekly on-call rotations.• Collaborated with multiple teams on various features, including checkout flows, digital payments, fulfillments, and analytics.• Handled integrations and troubleshooting with other 3rd party services like Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, and Shippo.• Back-end stack: Laravel/Eloquent/MySQL/Elasticsearch• Front-end stack: Vue/Vuex

Worked with an early-stage healthcare startup to bring their mobile-focused urgent care product from concept to soft launch.• Defined and implemented the platform API using open-source technologies and integration of third-party web services.• Defined and implemented the data architecture used for the application and back-end business processes.• Defined and implemented the build and deployment process using cloud-based technologies and continuous integration. • Collaborated with CTO and business team to define product and feature milestones.• Trained and mentored developers and participated in code reviews.• Back-end stack: Python/PostgreSQL/Solr• Front-end stack: React

Led the team responsible for building and maintaining APIs to support Trulia’s native mobile apps (iOS, Android) and data pipelines.• Drove the migration from a home-grown monolithic web stack to a service-oriented architecture built on open-source frameworks. • Designed and implemented new business-critical web services in coordination with internal/remote dev and operations teams.• Introduced a common API framework and evangelized it to other development teams, providing guidance on building their own web services.• Managed and prioritized weekly releases for new app features in coordination with mobile product and marketing teams.• Improved engineering success, engagement, and stability by introducing TDD and standardized deployment processes to team.• Trained and mentored developers and participated in code reviews.• Back-end stack: PHP/MySQL/Solr• Front-end stack: Backbone

Built and maintained web sites, tools, and APIs used to support their digital music distribution business. • Drove refactoring projects which migrated legacy web applications to a new standards-based MVC architecture.• Re-architected customer dashboard application to focus on componentized libraries, performance, and stability. • Worked with data engineers to define and build SOA for ingesting customer metadata and audio content.• Launched public API to expose all publicly accessible metadata for customers and third-party service integrations. • Selected as core transition team member when migrating code and data during the Orchard merger/acquisition.• Back-end stack: Zend/MySQL• Front-end stack: JQuery

Founding team member of a startup company working on personalized video search products. • Draper Fisher Jurvetson led our Series A. • Our company was showcased at Techcrunch Disrupt 2008.• Worked with the core team to take the product from conception through launch.• Prototyped and launched a version of the product for the WII gaming platform.• Managed multiple aspects of product engineering, infrastructure, and hiring.• Collaborated with CEO and other founders to define company branding, mission statement, and internal processes.• Back-end stack: PHP/MySQL• Front-end stack: JQuery/Javascript

Member of a cross-functional dev team for an agency specializing in the pharma and healthcare markets.• Developed CRM and distance-based learning products for multiple platforms: web, kiosk and CD-ROM.• Worked with senior managers to establish engineering and people management processes.• Back-end stack: JSP/Hibernate/MySQL• Front-end stack: Flash/Javascript