- Conceived and facilitated the implementation of product-wide architectural decisions and frameworks across all tiers of the company's core offering in areas of security, performance, and code quality.- Implemented core product functionality using C#/WCF JSONP-based web services in the middle-tier, MySQL and Redis in the backend/data-tier, and Javascript (jQuery) on the front-end.- Responsible for all database-related decisions and schema changes, as well as optimization of queries and resolution of any bottlenecks in order to ensure predictable and consistent operation of the MySQL (InnoDB) database.- Responsible for monitoring and oversight of the company's AWS-based infrastructure.- In charge of developing the web-based mobile front-end of the company's product.

- Was chiefly responsible for ensuring 100% uptime of the company's web application, serving a total user-base of 1 million people across more than 500 educational institutions.- Coordinated, automated, and streamlined production releases of upgrades and hotfixes, as well as other critical processes (such as monitoring and high-availability), using a variety of tools such as CruiseControl.NET, Chef, and a large array of homegrown systems and scripts built using various platforms including Go, Python, and Windows Batch. Successfully reduced the time required for major releases from over two hours to under 7 minutes.- Participated in architectural discussions and decisions regarding implementation approaches of various features as a member of a 5-person "Architecture/Foundation Team". Led the design and implementation of various core product components and frameworks such as the implementation of Redis as a product-wide caching layer, and the development of an in-house high-availability system for Redis prior to Sentinel being available for production use. Collaborated with the Architecture Team on other core components using C# (ASP.NET MVC, Windows Services, user applications), T-SQL, and light front-end development using HTML/CSS/JS.- Served as a member of a three-person "Production Team" (consisting of the CTO, Director Of Security, and myself) charged with responding to production emergencies, debugging production code, and implementing hotfixes, as well as reviewing any code that was to be deployed into production.- Responsible for optimizing very complex SQL workflows and procedures, as well as diagnosing database performance issues and bottlenecks.- Was responsible for bug fixes and maintenance of critical homegrown C++-based legacy components.- Acted as a general goto-person and guide for developers when uncertainties and difficult issues arose. Assisted with bringing new developers on-board.- Responsible for Subversion and all dev/stage environments.

- Developed various integration-related components for single-sign-on (in the form of proprietary plugins for third-party systems as well as more standardized workflows such as SAML), data exchange (import/export), and deep integration plugins for various third-party tools and platforms. Work primarily consisted of C# (ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, WCF, Web Services, Windows Services), heavy T-SQL, and light front-end HTML/CSSJavascript development.- Serviced and maintained various legacy components and services written in a wide variety of platforms (including C++/COM, ASP/VBScript, Java servlets and applets, ASP.NET WebForms, among others).- Was responsible for the Taskstream API - a WCF-based web service interface for inbound third-party integration.- Served as a member of a 6-person "Integration Services" Agile team. Handled all Integration-related production issues and live deployments.- Participated in feature planning and design meetings.- Created custom reports for clients on a per-request basis.

- Designed, built, and integrated order processing and automation service systems using EDI and/or custom CSV specifications in PHP, Java, and C#.- Designed, built, and implemented user-facing internal applications to aid customer service and shipping department tasks (RMA processing, package tracking, fraudulent order detection, etc.) using several platforms (Java/BlazeDS/Adobe Flex, ASP.NET MVC).- Extensive custom development/modification of the AspDotNetStorefront eCommerce package (core source code base modification / custom extensions development).- Designed, built, and implemented reporting systems with document generation portions developed in Java and C#, and data-retrieval portions developed in optimized T-SQL.

- Development of new technologies/applications and modification/expansion of existing web applications and sites built using a variety of languages and platforms (ASP.NET, Java, PHP).- Windows Server 2003 administration (IIS and SQL Server), as well as Linux/MySQL server administration.

- C# web application developer on a 5-person team working on an enterprise supply chain management system built on top of the Microsoft .NET framework 2.0 (ASP.NET WebForms).- Built and deployed background server monitoring services (with XML-driven configuration) in C#.