Going solo! After over a decade of building software as a full-time employee, I'm working on my own projects and taking on freelance work.

I joined Tock when it was around 50 people and just starting to see product-market fit. I was there during the entire hyper-growth stage all the way up through acquisition.- Managed a team of engineers building the business-facing side of the application.- Rapidly iterated on new restaurant management features as our customers’ requirements were quickly changingdue to the impact of COVID.- Led the effort to migrate a suite of read-only restaurant management tools into self-serve tools, reducingonboarding time by months and drastically cutting down support costs.- Made table reservation and management more efficient, allowing us to onboard large enterprise customers.- Built many features to maximize revenue for restaurants by fitting more guest reservations within their constraints.- Repurposed many restaurant-specific tools into a more generic Events platform.- Successfully drove adoption of GraphQL for all new API development, resulting in improved developer velocity.- Created a system that enabled all developers to quickly build real-time functionality into our applications.

I came to SwipeSense right as we started migrating from a Rails monolith (with a single MySQL database) to a wide range of microservices and datastores. Since then, we've tackled many challenges when it comes to ingesting large amounts of sensor data and efficiently presenting useful insights to users.I work on every part of the stack. Our infrastructure is all on AWS. Our frontends are React-based. Our backend code is a mix of Python and Go (running on AWS Lambda) and Ruby (a Rails app running on EC2 instances). Our data lives in MySQL, Postgres, and DynamoDB. We have an awesome GraphQL API that powers most of our services, both user-facing and internal.Some things I've personally worked on:- Built a tool to visualize and modify hospital floor plans. An error-prone process that used to take a whole week now takes a few hours, with no errors in the output.- Built a series of tools that allowed us to tweak our algorithm that predicts where a sensor is inside a hospital. You can't improve what you can't measure, and I built a very intuitive way to measure the result of changes to this algorithm.- Used Docker to bundle up all the dependencies of all our repositories. Getting up and running with certain repos used to be a long-winded installation process full of trial and error, but now it's a simple `docker-compose build`.- Migrated parts of our system to more horizontally scalable infrastructure. No more database scaling issues or single points of failure.- Built a bunch of ETL processes that aggregate raw data into something digestible for users.- Built a GraphQL API to expose any data we want to share between multiple parts of our system. We originally built this to feed our frontend apps (React + GraphQL + Apollo is a magical combination), but we found this API to be so useful that we started having our internal microservices use it as well.

I was part-time at this role since 2011 while in college, and started full-time in April 2014.As the second member of the engineering team, I was writing code for Syndio’s web-based dashboard from the day the repository was created. I have been involved in almost all aspects of the application from its first days as a PHP app to its current days as a Django/Angular app. In recent months, I have taken on planning and management duties in addition to programming.Highlights include...- Developed internal application used to administer projects, surveys, and dashboards.- Developed most of frontend and backend of current version of network survey application.- Set up automated testing process, along with code coverage checking.- Led sprint planning meetings (to facilitate estimation of tasks), as well as sprint retrospectives.- Broke large features and epics into smaller stories and tasks.- Prioritized and scoped new features, bug fixes, and technical debt removal.- Created mockups and detailed descriptions of features.- Planned and executed releases for new versions of application.- Coded portions of almost all areas of the application, including unit and end-to-end tests.

- Created initial prototype of web-based peer-to-peer payments application with Rails and Angular.- Introduced new release process to help catch bugs before they make it into production.- Developed miscellaneous new features and bug fixes for web-based merchant application.

I'm responsible for the upkeep of all technology in Northwestern's Delta Chi house, and I answer questions when they arise.I revamped the fraternity's public website, www.nudeltachi.org, for the first time in years. I also created an internal website for brothers to share contact information and find which classes other brothers have taken.

I manage all the media needs for the SONIC research lab at Northwestern University, which includes producing short documentaries about different projects, recording keynote speakers, and making software tutorials. I'm also responsible for keeping their internal website looking fresh and up-to-date.In the past couple weeks I've been transitioning to a software development role. We're in the early stages of creating a new web-based survey tool to be used for social network analysis.

- Led the effort to integrate another vendor’s product data into Drupal-based system.- Set up automated end-to-end testing workflow.- Developed content analytics dashboard.- Lived with 30 hackers and attended weekly events as part of HackNY summer fellowship.

The Creative Arts & Technology Studio (CATS) is an interactive entertainment and digital media community, located at Northwestern University, involved in collaborative learning and project development.I work with a 6-person executive board to foster this community. My primary responsibility is to set up events such as interactive workshops and speakers.

I'm in charge of continually refreshing and adding new functionality to the organization's website, sciencefist.org. I'm also involved in long-term planning and budgeting for an educational social networking website.

I designed and developed the new site for Cooler Concept, while integrating it into their old online store.

I designed and developed the website Britethorn.com, working closely with the creator of the Britethorn video series. Over the years I've been making updates as the need arises.

My high school summer job. I make food at the pool, and also work the cash register at admissions and concessions.

I designed and developed the site www.rossandjacks.com, making occasional updates when necessary. I also helped market the business online by submitting the website to online directories and setting up a Google Adwords campaign.