- Built braincandy.com from the ground up, architecting for fast iteration, reliability, and developer efficiency, using Python/Django, GraphQL, Typescript, React, Next.js, OpenSearch(ElasticSearch) and Neo4J.- Configured and maintained best-practices adherent AWS infrastructure utilizing a wide variety of AWS offerings.- Productionized and deployed custom ML models for book recommendation service.- Developed and collaborated on ETL pipelines using Airflow for data ingestion, entity resolution, and reification.- Created job descriptions and interview plans for data science and engineering hires and participated in their hire.- Established engineering best practices and automated tooling for development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.

- Led multiple projects to greatly improve developer satisfaction and efficiency, based on data collected from metrics, developer surveys, and interviews.- Established regular quarterly OKR cadences for improved goal tracking and business alignment.- Designed interview loops, performed recruiting tasks, and made hiring decisions for key engineering roles.- Established and managed the QA and Documentation programs within the engineering org.- Actively participated in extensive redefinition of Engineering Leveling criteria and associated documents.- 20% time performing code reviews, hands-on coding, and architecture design review.

- Transitioned primary CI/CD system from on-premises Jenkins to AWS-hosted and Linux-based Buildkite, leading to significant improvements in build throughput, speed, observability, and stability.- Led creation of in-house python-based CLI developer tooling package used by all engineers in the org.- Collaborated with infrastructure team on tooling redesign of staging and zero downtime production deployment and configuration for conversion from ECS to Kubernetes.- Consolidated and greatly improved initial Docker-based dev environment set up time, from 45+ mins to <15 mins.- Led project to greatly improve unit test suite speed, from 30 mins to 5 mins via parallelization.- Administered GitHub version control system for all Rover code bases.- Actively participated in hiring and recruiting efforts, growing the engineering team from 20 engineers to ~150.

- Designed and led implementation of in-house end-to-end SMS testing platform, including management of outside contractor resources.- Performed large scale code framework updates (Django 1.8 to 1.11) with zero downtime and no developer stoppage.- Migrated primary code base unit testing framework from Nose to Unittest, greatly reducing false positive rate.- Implemented metric collection hooks in primary code base for improved observability of key metrics.- Implemented on-the-fly image resizing client using pluggable 3rd party services, including a large scale data backfill via AWS EMR.- Contributed bug fixes to Django core code base.- Python, Django, and Backbone development of new features on the Rover.com site, including extensive A/B test set up and configuration.

Developed Omni's customer facing marketing site, support site, online documentation reader, sync service front-end, and OmniGraffle stencil sharing site stenciltown.com using Python, Django, and Backbone JS. Collaborated with designers and iOS developers to create supplemental web apps for Omni's primary iOS and Mac products. Customized open-source support and customer-tracking tooling using Perl.