Steve Brudz Email & Phone Number

New York, New York

Madison, Wisconsin Area

At Earthling, I led agile teams in developing custom applications for clients ranging from startups to established businesses. I collaborated with clients and product managers to define requirements and create sustainable architectures. I worked with the development team to lay out the bones of each system and then guided the growth of the system through design discussions and code reviews. I implemented complex features in modern technologies including JavaScript/ES6/TypeScript, React, Redux, MobX, node.js, Express.js, and PHP. I view automated testing, continuous integration, and seamless deployment as critical to success and they’re one of the first things I set up when starting a project. In my spare time, I've been exploring data visualization in VR and have recently published an open source library for visualizing geographic data in VR using Mozilla's A-Frame, D3.js and Three.js.

Greater New York City Area

At Cyrus, I worked with a variety of clients, from early stage startups to established software companies, helping them to build software that solves business problems. I focus on the following areas: How do they consistently deliver value to customers? How do they build software that is maintainable over the long-term? How do they to collaborate effectively within and between teams to build this software?Client engagements included:* Media Company -- Provided technical leadership and built new functionality in React & Redux.* Financial Services Startup -- Built an MVP in Ruby on Rails for an investment banking startup company in 8 weeks.* Non-profit Human Services Software Company -- Helped to incrementally refactor and improve the architecture of a large software system written in Ruby on Rails. Focus areas included authorization (switching from CanCan to Pundit), DevOps (rewriting the Capistrano deployment workflow), improving CI build stability, and general cleanup of technical debt.• Large Financial Software Company -- Coached multiple teams using a combination of facilitated workshops, targeted trainings, and embedded coaching to achieve improved communication between distributed team members, more consistent delivery on sprint commitments, and higher code quality.While at Cyrus, I also:• Developed JustNotSorry (http://justnotsorry.com), an open source Chrome extension for Gmail that helps people be more aware of the language they use in their emails.* Presented at meetups• Built an interactive data visualization of rat sightings in New York City (http://ratgraph.nyc) as part of a company-wide initiative to expand into new business areas.• Provided technology expertise for sales engagements, including scoping, estimation, and risk assessment.* Mentored other consultants at Cyrus• Organized a hackathon to build mini-games using Scratch as part of a company team-building day.

Directed a team of 11 engineers and 7 consultants, applying lean and agile best practices to build and support software tools to enable therapeutics discovery. • Managed development of a scientific OLAP system that combined a Kimball-style Oracle data warehouse with an ontology-based triple store of metadata, enabling scientists to quickly explore new hypotheses about diseases.• Led initiative to address customer pain-points and deployed new features and bug fixes that resulted in improved customer satisfaction, lower error rates in data collection, and reduction of support costs by 50%.• Built and maintained a healthy engineering culture with < 10% annual turn-over.• Leveraged $500K consulting budget to augment project teams with specialized skills.• Presented keynote speech about data management best practices at company-wide bioinformatics retreat.• Founding member of company initiative to provide better training & career development for software engineers.

Led technical team of 10 engineers distributed across 7 remote sites to develop the BioAssay Research Database (BARD - https://bard.nih.gov), a free, public platform funded by the NIH.

Built a Laboratory Informatics Management System (LIMS) for a high-throughput biological screening facility from the ground up. System is used 24/7 by more than 100 biologists, chemists, and automation engineers and handles workflow and data capture for testing 2+ million compounds per month.

Designed and developed core features for a Laboratory Informatics Management System (LIMS), including inventory management, synthetic chemistry support, robot integration, and automated data collection. Maintained and enhanced ChemBank (http://chembank.broadinstitute.org), a public small-molecule screening and cheminformatics resource database.

Led client-side development of a long-term planning application for HBO’s programming.

Built and maintained applications that enabled planning and scheduling of HBO programming.

Cambridge, Ma

Developed billing and customer care software for the telecommunications, broadband, and deregulated utilities markets.

Developed GUI for real-time weather system used by air traffic controllers.