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Baltimore, Md, Us

Self-funded via contract software delivery, consulting, and coaching.Building apps and games for the hobby tabletop industry.- The Play Valet, an app focused on improving how people get together to play games- Tabletop game development using computer vision, Monte Carlo simulation, and a custom print pipeline for prototyping.- Services in Rust to manage a comprehensive, self-healing replica of the world's largest tabletop game database.Technologies: Dart, Flutter, Rust, Fastlane / Match, Redis, Postgres, React, Terraform, Docker / Compose, Python, Tensorflow, Ruby

Brooklyn , New York , Us

Squad: a social experience focused on deepening your 12 closest friendships, instead of performing for randos.Responsible for all technical decisions. Empowered the team to make more of them.Built with React Native, backed by Node.js, to provide all the live updates you expect from an audio-centric, toyetic, delightful application. Migrated from a Firebase backend using a self-healing ETL service. Created internal tools to allow non-developers to manage a schedule of custom, in-app content for both Squad and partners, including Chipotle, Shake Shack, and the NBA.Technologies: React / React Native, Recoil, Swift, Fastlane / Match, Firebase, JavaScript / Node, Postgres, Redis, Docker, Terraform, ffmpeg, imagemagick, Twilio, Protocol Buffers, Bitrise, Google Cloud

Brooklyn , New York , Us

Fractional CTO for Squad. They were unable to find another player-coach CTO as a replacement, so I agreed to join full time.

Bellingham, Washington, Us

Pivoted startup to a new business model during and after Facebook's ban on "issue-based advertising". Turns out that homelessness is an "issue", so our non-profits focused on addressing homelessness could not run ads.- Managed data pipeline to create a data lake and learn from and reactivate approx. 7 million contacts.- Ultimately, co-wound-down operations, providing a generous severance.Technologies: Golang, SQL, Elixir, Docker

Bellingham, Washington, Us

Flutter developer for startup serving progressive non-profits and downticket political candidates.Technologies used: Dart, Flutter, Fastlane, Terraform, Docker, Elixir

Westerville, Ohio, Us

Change management, organizational, and technical consulting focused around Node.js and medium-to-large companies and teams. Internally focused on hiring, coaching, and process.Technologies: React / Redux, JavaScript / Node, Mocha, Golang, Docker / Compose, Terraform, Okta, Auth0, OpenAPI, OpenID Connect

Bellingham, Wa, Us

Intrapreneur for new products (e.g. Faithlife Live, Soundfaith), revenue streams, and technologies.- Primary teacher and mentor for JavaScript (ES5), React, Node, and related architectures.- Created a Flux framework, Littlest, to ease transition from C#/.NET/Razor to JavaScript/Node/React.- Built managed .NET integration of CEF to a new platform of “HTML interactives” within legacy desktop client.

DRI for mobile tools and DevEx at the FOSS startup behind Express.js and LoopBack.- Created BACN, a framework for Bootstrap, Angular.js, Cordova, and Node.js.- Gave talks and talk support for LoopBack, BACN, and supporting full-stack JavaScript.- Provided “clutch” (CTO's word) engineering support where the organization lacked deeper expertise.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Lead server engineer for a mobile-first social network marketed to gamers.- Built server infrastructure, JSON API, and services with Node.js and MongoDB.- Created a custom SOA framework (twice) to scale live messaging over Node.js and ZeroMQ.- Led the team and developed a native iOS/Swift application after a 60% RIF.

Providence, Ri, Us

First UI developer for an incredible MMORPG company. You may not know the company, but the people that worked there are STILL changing how video games are made and played.- Created and maintained the MMO's UI framework with Scaleform GFx and Unreal Engine 3.- Wrote core gameplay features in and across our BigWorld and Unreal Engine 3 service-oriented architecture.- Built our UI asset pipeline through Flash, MTASC, XML/XSD/XSLT, JSFL, lxml, and Apache Ant.- Primary teacher and mentor for ActionScript, UnrealScript, and UI development. Co-mentored Python and Twisted.- Managed skunkworks HTML game projects undertaken by the Helios developers with Node.js v0.6 (the first version with Window support), JavaScript (ES5), and a custom engine.- Provided professional services between the Helios team and external clients.