Advisor To The Ceo/Chief Technology Officer
Current
Bellingham, Wa
Obtained $100M Series A funding at $1B valuation from Goldman Sachs.Spearheaded all technology due diligence, liaising with counterparts at Goldman Sachs and subsidiaries.Architected, designed, and developed the companyโs proprietary platform (CRM, CMA, Home Valuations, IDX), a SaaS offering leveraging multiple software-integrated systems used by real estate agents to manage leads, listings, and transactions. Negotiated all 3rd party technology contracts with providers: AWS, Azure, GCP, Twilio, Elastic, MongoCloud, DataDog, API integrations.Managed multimillion-dollar infrastructure and technology spending with providers. Led a multimillion-dollar team of distributed engineers, leading hiring and training for new software, DevOps, and QA engineers.Designed microservices architecture to supplement monolithic Ruby on Rails web applications and React Native mobile applications. Consolidated software systems on AWS using Docker and Kubernetes. Migrated user interface development from Haml, CoffeeScript, and JQuery to React.js. Introduced software patterns extending beyond MVC to match required features. Drove utilization for idiomatic Ruby coding practices.Launched the Quality Assurance department. Integrated platform with Twilio, Zillow, Realtor.com, Facebook, Salesforce, HubSpot, and other third-party lead sources.