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Centreville, Maryland, US

Co-Owner of DuroSoft LLC, which provides high quality software consulting and engineering services

London, London, GB

Developed ecosystem crates macro_magic and docify which have been foundational to efforts to improve polkadot's dev ux. Delivered key compile-time features to FRAME including dev mode, benchmarking v2, derive_impl, and numerous improvements and optimizations to FRAME's internal macros. Also implemented the new `#[pallet::task]` general purpose API for.

New York, New York, US

Built up Arist's platform and team from 0 to a team of 11+, > 20% market capture of the Fortune 500 and most of FANG, SOC 2 Type II compliance, a message processing and scheduling system with sub 1 second accuracy capable of sending/receiving hundreds of thousands of messages per second. This experience ultimately culminated in a $24m combo Series A+B.

Developed low latency SERP scraping technology, built a world-class team of 5 backend and frontend engineers, and delivered an MVP search engine product in under 8 months. I was the first technical hire and designed the underlying system that processes and interleaves results from Google and Bing and displays them anywhere in the world in under 100ms.

Newport, RI, US

Conducted deep learning research and wrote high performance C++ and Rust code for the Sonar & Sensing department at NUWC in support of the U.S. nuclear submarine fleet. This was a full-time position and was conducted with permission from the Navy concurrently with my tenure as CTO at BlockVue.

Denver, Colorado, US

Built a 3D/VR virtual tour platform for commercial real estate properties from the ground up and hired a small team of software engineers. Backend platform was a mix of Ruby, Crystal lang, and Rust. We were the first company in the world to run Crystal lang in a serverless context, and much of the efficiency of our platform involved leveraging this.

Denver, Colorado, US

Washington, DC, US

Admitted into the Department of Defense SMART Scholarship program, which funded my computer science master's degree at Brown University in exchange for two years of work as a research computer scientist at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport upon my graduation from Brown.

United States, US

Software developer for a large Ruby on Rails project in the Financial Technology industry

Washington, DC, US

Developed a novel computer vision algorithm for the Navy Applied Center for Research in Artificial Intelligence on a $10,000 research grant and as a continuation of the work I was doing as part of NREIP.

Baltimore, MD, US

Ruby on Rails web development.

Washington, DC, US

Carlisle, Pennsylvania, US

As a continuation of the work I did over the summer of 2013 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, I have completed a year long computer science honors thesis which I successfully defended to department faculty on May 1st, 2014. This year I was the only computer science to be awarded departmental honors. My thesis is titled "AST Indexing: A.

Carlisle, Pennsylvania, US

Provided support to students learning introductory and intermediate computer science material. Hosted office hours on a regular basis during which students could come and ask questions.

Livermore, CA, US

Worked on the ROSE compiler, specifically on Compass, a ROSE-based tool that leverages static analysis to perform real-time detection of flaws and security vulnerablities in existing software source code. Specialized in memory leak detection.

Greenwich, CT, US

Developed custom software, tools, web services, logos, graphics, and user interfaces for internal school functions and for the school website; provided basic IT support for students and faculty, including repair of Lenovo laptops and tablets.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science, Philosophy

Education record

Education record