• Migrate customers from our legacy billing system to Stripe for enhanced payment processing• Design and implement solutions for deprecating legacy systems• Mentored and provided technical guidance to a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment• Collaborated closely with the product team to scope work, identify technical challenges, and allocate resources effectively, ensuring timely project delivery.• Participate in architecture discussions to shape the future technical direction• Identified technical debt and discussed trade-offs to ensure balanced decisions, promoting technical equity and sustainable growth in new feature development

• Managed a team of 5 software engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment.• Hired and onboarded 2 engineers• Oversaw project management and development cycles, ensuring projects were delivered on time and within budget• Conducted performance reviews and career development sessions

• Managed partner integrations to support our brands business• Collaborated with brand partners to discuss and gather requirements• Worked closely with the product team to define projects, determine scope, and allocate resources• Developed new applications and migrated existing functionality from legacy systems• Interviewed and onboarded new team members to enhance team

• Backend API development for the FireHydrant web application• Improved the Slack integration to enhance team communication and incident response

• Backend Development: • Sole backend developer on the mobile team, supporting API needs for Android and iOS applications • Worked on a small team that developed TeamSnap's chat feature • Built TeamSnap's first-party data system for advertising partners• Partner Integrations: • Integrated several partner systems including: • FlipGive • Accuweather • NCSA (college recruiting) • Apple Pay• Project Highlights: • Built a Partner Promo Engine to manage promo codes from various partners • Designed and developed the API for a health check feature, utilized over 40M times during COVID • Migrated B2B customers from WePay to Stripe • Identified and optimized slow queries to enhance system

Focused on enhancing, refactoring and maintaining existing Ruby, Elixir and Javascript-based applications that serve millions of users. Building additional features, functionality and applications to support the continued growth.

IZEA connects brands with influential content creators and publishers. Our platform enables content marketing and influencer marketing at scale.Primary Responsibility: Develop and maintain features that integrate with popular third party API's such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Google Analytics using Ruby on Rails and Ember for IZEA's flagship product: Izea Exchange.

Teaching Assistant for UCF's Full Stack Web Development Bootcamp cohort. Led classroom discussions, guide inquiry, emphasize the meta-skills and core concepts of software engineering, supported students in their projects, provide feedback to students and helped them with the following technologies over the course of 6 months:• HTML5• CSS3 • Bootstrap• Git • JavaScript • jQuery • Ajax • LocalStorage • Firebase • NodeJS • ExpressJS • Using and Writing APIs • MySQL • Mongo DB • ReactJS • Laravel• Deploying to Herokuhttp://www.ucfcodingbootcamp.com/

Primarily focused on building a sales portal add-on to a custom-developed CRM platform built with Ruby on Rails.