Senior backend python developer designing, implementing, and delegating stories supporting mission-critical features. Additional responsibilities include: mentoring junior developers, providing code review for other members of the team, working across departments to gather feature requirements and resolve issues proactively.

Backend Python Developer building and maintaining Airflow DAGs, Pyspark and Pandas ETL tasks, AWS automation tasks, and other scripts to support an AI-powered media buying platform for advertisers and traders

Technical Lead for Adobe Add-ons project. Developed a Photoshop Add-on while managing an external team to develop an After Effects Add-on that allows users to upload their PS/AE projects directly to Celtra as HTML5 ad creatives. This project expands potential sales opportunities to brands with in-house creative teams, adding a significant new market segment to Celtra’s overall market fit. Highlights:• Celtra Photoshop Generator Plugin: a Node.js application that converts PS documents to image assets and layout data for ingest by Celtra platform.• Celtra Sync Panel: a Vue/Vuex MVC that allows users to log in to their accounts, select a campaign, and upload their current PS or AE project to Celtra as a new ad creative.• Celtra Photoshop Export Panel: an ES6 vanilla JS application that allows users to mark specific Photoshop layers and groups with various export options that persist on the document.Technical Lead for Celtra's implementation of IAB’s MRAID 3 standard for in-app mobile ads. Sat as Celtra’s representative on the MRAID 3 committee and developed compliance ad units for SDK developers.Developed new features to increase the potential web inventory for high-value Celtra ad formats “Interscroller” and “Miniscroller”, paving the way to increase the viability of these ad formats from direct-sold publisher campaigns to programmatic exchanges.Assisted in Celtra's implementation of IAB video advertising standards VAST and VPAID and contributed to the design of Celtra’s backend video transcoding process.Mentored junior developers on building features, diagnosing and resolving bugs, and developing unit tests for legacy code.Developed new runtime diagnostic routines for Celtra ads, enabling technical services and account managers to monitor campaign health via analytics reports and scale efficiently to serve more customers.

Communicated with partners to reproduce and resolve issues with S2S and client-side runtime data passing between the partners and Celtra.Developed a diagnostic JS snippet to automate debugging common issues between Celtra ad units and third party in-app advertising SDKs, enabling the Technical Services team to scale more efficiently.

Managed integrations of ad servers and SDKs in the Celtra Tag Generator product.Researched, tested, and implemented new methods for collecting useful data within the digital advertising ecosystem, enabling new audience data driven features.

Managed quarterly releases of the Mocean SDK on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone Platforms.Provided documentation and training to Client Services team and customers as new SDK features were released.Developed client-side javascript tag that allowed Mocean ads to be served 4th party, opening additional inventory sources for platform clients.

Provided account management services including technical and adops support for publisher clients such as Time Inc., TVGuide, Warner Bros., and MSNBC.Managed internal Rich Media Certification project: coordinated between teams to manage existing Rich Media vendor relationships, test and certify tags from vendors, document process for trafficking tags properly in Mocean system, and implemented a process for updating certification periodically.

Developed workflows and After Effects scripts to automate updating of motion graphics assets for broadcast college sports network, speeding up production of motion graphics assets from 50 minutes per batch project to 10 minutes per batch project. Oversaw implementation of the new workflow and provided training to motion graphics artists.