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Seattle, Washington, Us

I lead a team of senior and principal software engineers in building and maintaining the APIs that drive Zillow's personalized shopping experience for millions of daily users. Our highly available architecture handles billions of requests with > 99.999% reliability to deliver search results and home detail pages on the Zillow.com website and our mobile app.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Provide leadership across engineering teams to deliver quarterly goals in an agile environment through CI/CD across our eventing and search platforms. • Mentor and develop junior engineers• Facilitate company wide personalization through real time event processing• Full stack ownership of global site search experience• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for doctor and treatment landing pages

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Led a team of 5 remote engineers in multi-discipline, deep-dive initiatives focused on key business areas.• Reported directly to Chief Product Officer and Chief Marketing Officer• Developed a custom CMS and UI component library• Introduced segment-based customer journey specialization• Launched new freemium product and course catalog• Recorded a Guinness World Record for largest online science class

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Senior Engineering Lead for the Marketing Experience Team of 12 remote engineers hosting 30M+ public landing pages across 6 company brands on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) through continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) on the AWS platform.• Mentor and develop junior engineers• Solutions architect for public website platforms• Ruby on Rails, Javascript, SASS, HAML, SLIM, Mustache, Nginx, Lua, Elasticsearch, AWS• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM)• Built custom lead form, eventing, and A/B testing platforms

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Full stack engineer focused on breaking up a monolithic Ruby on Rails application into continuous integration / continuous deployment Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) on an AWS stack.• Designed and built 2 new client facing Ruby on Rails microservices• Designed and built a new API microservice• Built and deployed the first AMP-driven, PPC landing pages in the worldVarsity Tutors is a live learning platform that connects students with personalized instruction to accelerate academic achievement. To date, students have accessed more than 1 million hours of live instruction on the platform. Additionally, through the company’s free online learning tools and mobile applications, Varsity Tutors has created a learning ecosystem of more than 100,000 free practice questions, answers and explanation sets across more than 150 subjects and tests that have been used more than 40 million times. Varsity Tutors was founded in 2007 at Washington University in St. Louis. For more information visit www.varsitytutors.com.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Web Developer (January 2015 – February 2016)As a developer I report directly to the Chief Technology Officer and fulfill a number of responsibilities including programming, debugging, training, technical support and documentation. The backend system of Trackers is driven from Postgres and MySQL databases which supports a variety of external and internal facing applications and web presences. In this context I have been responsible for developing and debugging features in web apps written in Node/Express, Ruby/Rails on the backend and Angular, Javascript and HTML on the front end. My two major projects have been supporting the development of a new cloud based hybrid multi-tenancy content management web app platform and the (re)development of a camp management and registration system which sits at the core of Trackers Earth operations.Producer (July – December 2014)Trackers is a fast paced dynamic organization focused on connecting families with the natural world around them. The company supports a rich web and social media presence for marketing and sales and is driven directly by the founder and general manager. Reporting directly to the founder, my role focused on fulfilling design, technical and marketing goals. On a day to day basis I was responsible for production of websites targeting markets in Portland, OR and the San Francisco Bay Area. Responsibilities included creation and curation of content and media as well as management of blog feeds, course offerings and the online store. Production responsibilities relied heavily on my management skills, advanced photography and film skills, technical proficiency in Photoshop, HTML and Javascript as well as administration of Wordpress sites.

• Established creative partnerships with domestic and international non-profits, businesses, and government agencies• Led photography workshops in US, UK, Estonia, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Bangladesh, China, Tibet, Philippines, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and Fiji• Coordinated logistics for staff and program participants• Developed and implemented marketing strategy including social media, pay per click, trade shows, and traditional print• Implemented strategic plan• Coordinated day-to-day staff responsibilities• Facilitated ongoing communication with independent contractors• Managed day to day business operations, holding full P&L responsibility and managing payroll• Developed online learning system

Executive Education, Stanford Lead

Master'S Degree, Communications

Bachelor'S Degree, Graphic Design