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San Diego, California, US

- Lead the product and engineering org through a domain-driven redesign and platform re-architecture to support decomposing their monolithic application and more optimal business operations.- Worked extensively on the B2B side of the business to redesign how client integrations were built and supported, adopting modern AWS technologies for data engineering.

- Redesigned architecture to use event-driven design patterns with an updated data pipeline designed for AI-driven insights- Assessed systems on 4 cloud providers to provide strategic paths to hit product launch targets for 2023- Consolidated redundant ETLs and identifying cost-saving opportunities across cloud- and SaaS providers- Introduced.

Focusing on helping out with our first child. gradually transitioning back to full-time work in 2023.

San Francisco, CA, US

- Responsible for international team of ~30 engineers developing Panther’s product end-to-end- Devised and began execution of strategy for continued and future operations in Europe- Revised, matured and trained engineering and support teams on incident response process- Assisted in overhaul of how Panther’s Engineering, Product and Design (EPD) org.

Culver City, CA, US

- Managing platform services (payments, subscriptions, IAM, internal tools, content management, and more), DevOps and security teams internationally- Acting infrastructure and security architect- Introducing practices to create platform-wide observability and introduce performance and resiliency targets for improved platform and organizational maturity.

Culver City, CA, US

- Engineering manager and tech lead for a cross-functional, full-stack scrum team focused on overhauling our monolithic web app and its underlying platform, updating our site design, and moving ourselves to a common set of services for future projects- Managed cross-functional scrum teams focusing on payments, subscriptions and application security- Led.

Culver City, CA, US

- Initially hired as a front-end web developer working on the Crunchyroll PHP monolithic application- Became a team lead for reusable web application components and overhauls to existing pages for mobile-first designs, accessibility, internationalization, and improved MVC pattern implementation- Led part of a full-stack effort to re-implement payment.

Milpitas, California, US

- Took control of E-Learning development, including graphic design, animation, and coding needs- Shortened course development time from 3 months to under 3 weeks (and in some cases, days)- Learned HTML5 technologies and became the lead developer for 3 simultaneous HTML5 projects delivered for web and tablet platforms- Developed Grunt.js tasks to streamline.

- Launched Kymera Keeper in Q1 2012, a cross-platform social game on Facebook and Android devices- Lead Flash Developer, managing team of 5 developing Flash client, trained fresh college grads in Actionscript 3 and OOP during development of Kymera Keeper- Senior Producer, collaborating efforts of 6 teams in an agile environment, managing PM team of 2.

San Jose, California, US

- Worked with 4 teams to develop, maintain, and instruct future users about test systems written in LabVIEW and integrated with embedded systems and other components- Developed and implemented dozens of reliability test systems and components, 3 device firmwares, and software for customer-facing systems

Developed automated test platforms for 2 concurrent projects in LabVIEW and other tools

B.S. Computer Engineering, Minor In Studio Art, Computer Engineering, Studio Art

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