Part of Hallmarks core platform team building and maintain micro services utilizing Golang, MySQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch and AWS. - Worked on Hallmarks machine learning recommendation team. - Built out internal recommendation manager CMS utilizing React and Golang to help internal staff manage curated data for card recommendations. - Promoted to Technical Architect on hallmark.com 2020 rebuild project. - Lead on all backend services required to integrate with hallmarks new card recommendation engine.

Active member of HighWire's research and development group whose goals are to keep HighWire's technology relevant, efficient, and future proof.Lead architect on HighWire's new flagship scholarly publishing product Scolaris. Utilized technologies including Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Docker, Drupal, Kafka and Golang.- Redeveloped acquired Sematico product Scolaris in Drupal 8. - Developed new highly dynamic content modeling framework that utilizes Elasticsearch, Drupal 8 and Cassandra that allowed HighWire to scale its business outside the STM Journal market.- Configured and designed automated code review and unit testing processes using docker and Scrutinizer.- Developed concurrent horizontally scalable content update system using Golang and Kafka. - Built multiple micro services using Golang for new Scolaris platform. - Wrote over 2000 functional and unit tests for new Scolaris platform. - Wrote DevOps Golang program for launching development sites locally using docker. - Lead engineer on launch of first site using new Scolaris product for Springer publishing http://connect.springerpub.com that hosts over 27 scholarly journals and 550 books. - Lead on new Scolaris search system that uses Apache Solr and allows for highly customized search solutions, but maintains easy management as HighWire launches more sites on Scolaris.

Principal engineer and technical lead responsible for flagship scholarly publishing platform, with over 700 scholarly journals and books serving over one billion requests annually. Mentor and lead to over 20 developers. Advised senior management and acted as liaison to other departments and outside vendors.- Maintained 99.9% up time.- Redesign content update system using python and a kafka based events systems which reduced wait times for customers by 90%.- Successful lead engineer on demanding short scheduled redesign of American Heart Association flagship journal sites https://www.ahajournals.org/.- Fine tuned performance and up time of flagship product using AppDynamics. - Improved DevOps development stack by switching from Vagrant to Docker.- Introduced Cloudflare DNS, CDN and Railgun technologies to platform.- Started learning Golang.

Selected to continue on with HighWire Press, Inc. after acquisition by Accel KKR.

Technical lead on HighWire Press's online scholarly publishing platform and lead engineer on developing many complex and large scale scholarly web sites.- Achieved 99.9% up time across 700 customer sites. - Designed infrastructure and software that handled over one billion request per year. Key technologies include Centos, PHP, MySQL, Apache, Memcache and Varnish.- Trusted to lead multi million dollar web site projects for customers like The British Medical Journal (www.bmj.com, case study https://www.drupal.org/case-study/the-bmj-thebmjcom) and American Academy of Pediatrics (http://www.aappublications.org/).- Built DevOps framework utilizing Jenkins, Drupal, and Ruby for managing configurations and code deployments for 700+ websites. Over 100 employees in 2019 are still using this product.- Developed development environment for DevOps framework using Vagrant, Virtual box, and Chef that allowed developers to spin up the 5 to 6 vm's needed for development.- Technical escalation point for internal/external issues in over 700 websites.- Lead and mentored a team of 20 developers. - Gained experience working with US remote, and offshore staff.- Responsible for implementing and managing bi-weekly code releases.- Developed and maintained successful quality control engineering processes that served hundreds of customer projects. - Worked with AWS cloudfront CDN.- Was placed on the Outsells top 10 ten companies to watch for 2013.

Selected to be on a team of five senior engineers to re architect HIghWire's flagship scholarly journal product.- Integrated email alert API that allowed users to sign up and and manage email alerts of types ranging from new content alerts to search alerts. - Re designed PHP content loading solution to use PHP's pcntl_fork that decreased loading times by 10x.- Managed release cycles, provided code reviews, managed and contributed to code base of 120,000+ lines of code. - Worked with content store that held 6+ petabytes of data.- Developed content processing profiles using XPath 2 and light XSLT to convert XML to JSON.- Developed custom PHP logging solution utilizing syslog-ng to allow producing Counter 3 reports.- Integrated Drupal with 30+ internal and external API’s.- Worked with operations team to develop cfengine profiles for apache, mysql, varnish, and memcache vm's.- Developed custom search integration using Apache Solr.- Managed off shore team of 25 developers. - Practice Agile and SCRUM methodologies.

Responsible for Chicago Public Media’s organizational web presence and technology demands.- Led, developed and maintained Chicago Public Radio’s Drupal website conversion in October 2010 (www.wbez.org).- Lead architect on re launch of the most popular podcast website This American Life (www.thislife.org) built using Drupal.- Created WBEZ’s first Android app that allowed users to read WBEZ news and stream 91.5 FM from the their device.- Created text messaging service to support donor membership program where users could text their location and in return learn about discounted dinning and shopping rewards the program supported.- Maintained multiple sites and servers that received 5 million page views/month.- Managed team of 3 developers.- Maintained old ASP.net code base for www.chicagopublicradio.org. - Wrote open source Drupal module for integrating NPR's content API into Drupal.- Became a Drupal module contributor on drupal.org (user name ‘pwaterz’).- Received National Headline Club's First Place Award for Best Radio Station Website.