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New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

• Lead engineer responsible for replacing a pivotal legacy JSON API with GraphQL.Involved writing the GraphQL API in Ruby on Rails to integrate in to a Reactfrontend.
• Contributed to multiple projects that helped average order value increase by 13.7%,included enabling multiple orders per cycle and moving Blue Apron’s marketplace toa new charging system. Projects used React, Redux.
• Started the Frontend Guild, coordinating frontend engineers across multiple teams,as a general forum to facilitate engineers to troubleshoot issues concerning frontendtechnologies. This guild helps engineers.

Santa Clara, California, US

• I was fully embedded with a team at eBay:
• Lead engineer mentoring and working with a junior engineer to build and create a frontend application from scratch using best practices. Application was built using React, React Query, Material UI and Formik. This.
• Sole U.S. based engineer responsible for implementing and maintaining a custom framework responsible for deploying all Kubernetes pods for the SDS eBay team.
• Exclusive engineer responsible for implementing a partition move feature from the React frontend, to the Go backend, to the Java deployment framework. This feature allows SRE’s across eBay to hot swap failed partitions.

SAN Francisco, CA, US

• Lead engineer heading a team of two other engineers building an entire application from scratch using best practices. This includes writing ETL data pipelines in Airflow, Redis for caching and AWS Lambdas and GCP Cloud.
• Lead engineer to implement a new CI/CD pipeline that is being adopted company wide, using Github Actions, Terraform and Cloud Formation.
• Implemented the first use of Elastic Search at Sunrun, which includes ETL pipelines to index data and GCP Cloud Functions to provide API’s to other Sunrun applications.
• Sole engineer responsible for redesigning sale slides for Sunrun’s sales platform, which includes React, Redux, SASS and AWS Lambdas.

New York, NY, US

• Completely rewrote Homepolish’s quotes and orders flow using React, Apollo, Redux and Styled Components in a team of two front end engineers. This directly lead to sales conversion rates rising by 35% from the previous.
• Designed and implemented Homepolish’s Front End continuous delivery life cycle using Docker, Circle CI, Netlify, Git, Jest, and Webpack.
• As a lone engineer, created and deployed the customer dashboard that is used by all of Homepolish’s customers. This also included creating the navigation bar that is used application wide using various libraries such.
• Integral team member in implementing a proposal tool for Homepolish’s interior designers using React, Redux Form, and React Beautiful DnD. Within the first two months, this lead to 33% increase in new proposals.

• Moved a client’s build infrastructure from using a legacy Python script to Webpack 2.0, in the process cutting average network requests from 1.2 seconds to less 500 milliseconds site wide.
• Created a parser that converts XPaths to a JSON representation to be consumed by a React/Redux application.
• As a sole back end engineer, took a concept from idea to final implementation in five months. This work included designing and coding an API that handles all user data for an iOS application. It was built using a stack.

Denver, CO, US

Worked here briefly before my department was spun off to create a new company called Postlight

New York, NY, US

• Created an internal web scraping service to replace a third party service, making heavy use of the Scrapy framework. This service now scrapes thousands of web pages everyday and feeds the data in to Juju’s existing.
• Developed a reporting platform for email webhooks that handles over 5 million email events a day utilizing CherryPy.
• Optimized an existing Solr service for exporting millions of records from Solr’s indexes in to properly formatted XML by utilizing a local key value store. Then created a web interface for the creation of new XML feeds.
• Added graphing and table sorting capabilities to internal facing tools utilizing jQuery.
• Extended Juju’s current customer API to include new features as well as adding teststo ensure stability.
• First point of contact for troubleshooting customer facing issues and delivered sound technical advice to customers utilizing Juju’s API.

Denver, CO, US

• Implemented and deployed a new Nagios/MTRG monitoring system on CentOS.
• Deployed an automated scripting process to install and configure software on desktopmachines.
• Implemented new virus protection software on all of Geotech’s machines.

Centennial, CO, US

• Played an integral role of planning and moving a company from Manhattan to Boulder, including reconfiguring servers for the new network infrastructure and installation of over 30 desktop machines.
• Onsite IT support for multiple clients around the Denver metro area.
• Integrated Mac OS X in to a virtualized Windows 2008 domain.

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Infantry Team Leader whose duties included leadership of a four man fire team, maintenance of a Stryker vehicle and equipment estimated over two million dollars, and the personal management of fire direction control.
• Maintained a security clearance of SECRET during the duration of enlistment.
• Personally trained and lead a fire team through a fifteen month deployment in Baghdad and Baqubah Iraq.
• Planned and briefed platoon on over twenty mounted and dismounted patrols.
• Personally selected by the company's first sergeant to be a part of the company’s sniper team.
• Brought all members of my fire team back home safely with zero causalities and zero loss of equipment.