UI architect. AEM/CMS expertise

Implement ML/ Generative AI Pipelines leveraging constant learning and Vector Databases

Hands-on Player-coach

Lead engineering efforts

blisser.com

Growing leadership via signals.Overhauled the tech team and stack for success. Leveraged the AWS cloud suite, SvelteJS and a slew of other advancements. Qchange.com

Day and night, building the premiere food delivery service aggregator in the market.

Startup: Introduced eslint, styling and code standards to our codebase as the 2nd Engineer.Scaled our Node.js, MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Redux.js app from 500k users per month to 26+mm per month (ready for 500mm).Security: Introduced Cloudflare for DDoS protection, Rate-limiter, Firewall for malicious requestsAWS lead: Route53, Transfer SFTP, S3, Lambda (serverless/terraform), elastic transcoder, lambda@edgeLead successful efforts at U of I and UIC career fairsDesigned… Show more Startup: Introduced eslint, styling and code standards to our codebase as the 2nd Engineer.Scaled our Node.js, MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Redux.js app from 500k users per month to 26+mm per month (ready for 500mm).Security: Introduced Cloudflare for DDoS protection, Rate-limiter, Firewall for malicious requestsAWS lead: Route53, Transfer SFTP, S3, Lambda (serverless/terraform), elastic transcoder, lambda@edgeLead successful efforts at U of I and UIC career fairsDesigned Engineer interview process early onHelped build the team: Interviewed 70+ candidatesIdentityDB (rbdms psql), microservice (ec2/ec2/ebs/docker/eks), and RBAC architectImplemented ElasticSearch for tremendous improvement in site reliabilityMigrated DB providers for performance, efficiencies and speed.“Fought Nazi’s” – built a Hate Filter to screen orders using the Jaro-Winkler algorithm.Introduced many full-stack product features.Mentor of many engineers and employees. Show less

- Lead a team of 5+ full-stack engineers leveraging Rails, JavaScript, AWS and more in building out our flagship product.- Architect, design, plan and develop large scale apps that drive our Loan Decision Engine platform of the future.- Screen hundreds of candidates, review resumes and conduct phone and on-site interviews to assemble a dynamic and talented team.- Spearhead recruiting efforts at U of I and Northwestern.- Have been responsible for some truly bright hires in the… Show more - Lead a team of 5+ full-stack engineers leveraging Rails, JavaScript, AWS and more in building out our flagship product.- Architect, design, plan and develop large scale apps that drive our Loan Decision Engine platform of the future.- Screen hundreds of candidates, review resumes and conduct phone and on-site interviews to assemble a dynamic and talented team.- Spearhead recruiting efforts at U of I and Northwestern.- Have been responsible for some truly bright hires in the firm.- Architected custom web stack with Rails + ReactJS to use company-wide.- Architected and delivered on “Lendingbush” (Rails + ReactJS app) that executives use to sell our service to external partners.- Architected and implemented “Turnstyle” (Rails + ReactJS), used to manage relationships and tie-in with numerous data systems within our client ecosystem.- Architected and delivered on a full e-mail and SMS text platform. Built multiple systems within the AWS ecosystem that processes 500,000 emails a month (to start, scaling to millions) by parsing and storing using SES. This also connects to Salesforce and every few minutes provides updates to the email platform that trigger event-based campaigns. Show less

Teach classes of 27-54 students at the NW law campus downtown.Web Dev Bootcamp teaching students HTML, CSS, JS, gitflow, deployments, Jquery, Node/npm, ReactJS, mongodb, etc..

• Establish development guidelines and processes to follow globally.• Lead teams as big as 7 developers on clients such as: -Chanel: inside.chanel.com -Hyatt Hotels: hyatt.com• Configured a custom stack + build for our in-house Adobe AEM toolkit.• Worked on and established guidelines for the Herman Miller redesign• 2nd place in an Adobe hackathon displaying Augmented Reality (AR) furniture in a mobile Androidapplication, Samsung S6 in this case.• Architect for… Show more • Establish development guidelines and processes to follow globally.• Lead teams as big as 7 developers on clients such as: -Chanel: inside.chanel.com -Hyatt Hotels: hyatt.com• Configured a custom stack + build for our in-house Adobe AEM toolkit.• Worked on and established guidelines for the Herman Miller redesign• 2nd place in an Adobe hackathon displaying Augmented Reality (AR) furniture in a mobile Androidapplication, Samsung S6 in this case.• Architect for a pilot Grocery iOS application that has been used to win clients internationally. There isa professional video of the app in the store produced. Show less

Tasked with creating mobile, web and enterprise level apps.Lead teams as large as 12 people to execute on portfolio projects.Implemented AngularJS admin suite and UI layer for an Android App used by Outerwall's (RedBox, Coinstar..) 750+ Nationwide technicians and logistics experts.Worked with EmberJS and EmberData to create a full stack application for end-customers like JetBlue Airlines.Player-Coach for a team of AngularJS developers on a very large (1+ years of development)… Show more Tasked with creating mobile, web and enterprise level apps.Lead teams as large as 12 people to execute on portfolio projects.Implemented AngularJS admin suite and UI layer for an Android App used by Outerwall's (RedBox, Coinstar..) 750+ Nationwide technicians and logistics experts.Worked with EmberJS and EmberData to create a full stack application for end-customers like JetBlue Airlines.Player-Coach for a team of AngularJS developers on a very large (1+ years of development) front-end project, to complete a proprietary application for a client. Show less

Lead Polyglot Developer - UX + MVC - Ruby on Rails Web Apps (May 2011 - July 2014)Tasked with creating multi-screen, data-intensive dashboards for executives using Ruby on Rails.Created many Ruby on Rails-driven, full-featured web applications.Created immersive front-end UX’s via js, css3, html5 and back-end solutions driven by RoR.Designed RoR front-end views, screen-by-screen application flows, and MVC logic.Provide company-wide trainings for the executive “Mobile-first”… Show more Lead Polyglot Developer - UX + MVC - Ruby on Rails Web Apps (May 2011 - July 2014)Tasked with creating multi-screen, data-intensive dashboards for executives using Ruby on Rails.Created many Ruby on Rails-driven, full-featured web applications.Created immersive front-end UX’s via js, css3, html5 and back-end solutions driven by RoR.Designed RoR front-end views, screen-by-screen application flows, and MVC logic.Provide company-wide trainings for the executive “Mobile-first” program, teaching RoR. I give monthly trainings in RoR, CSS, and angularJS - high positive feedback in these sessions.Project Team’s SME in these technologies: git, ruby, rails, css3, postgresql, js, angular, NodeDeveloper - Web Apps (February 2011 - May 2011)Needed to depict data to thousands of end users.Created four Ruby on Rails web applications to be used as part of an embedded system.Created several JBOSS web applications, writing Java servlets and JSP's to host reports and other CRUD actions.Lead a team of on and off-shore contractors to clear up inconsistincies up/down stream with data and logic using Perl/Ksh mostly.Developer - Prod. Support (December 2010 – Present)Needed to clear up sporatic issues in the wholesale ordering system.Developed bash scripts with SQL to ping the right sources and collate troubled circuits.Report back to the users with instructions to eliminate future instances by 95%.Many similar scenarios and responses lead to my 2nd Key Contributor Award in a row, placing in the 25th percentile in 2012 and 2013.Developer - Coldfusion (September 2009 – December 2010)The CEO had a set of goals: “ #7. We need to track the network in one tool.”Completed requirements for the most complex modules.Coded several front-end and back-end interfaces and modules using ColdFusion, SQL and SSIS.Helped teammates finish theirs.Networking, Planning and Eng. performance skyrocketed. Show less

There were 8 programs with no leadership, they were to help in delivering U-verse.Took control of all coordination activities cross-team, internally and nationally.Audit compliance of 100% and contributions to the U-verse core product successfully delivered.

• Tasked with: “Completing all required tests on the Dean Martin slot machine game.”• Used linux extensively to manipulate game data and execute tests.• Used bash scripts to automate regression tests.• Completed this project in less time than slated, given teammates work to assist with.

• Tasked with: “Complete website redesign and teach the K-8 children”.• Redesigned and implemented new website.• Fixed the hardware installations of cat-5 cable to allow network to reach all classrooms.• Developed teaching ciriculum for all children coming to “Computer Class”.

• Started with limited structure in place to test high-end model kitchen stoves.• Designed tests in C++, including interactions with a voltmeter and oscilliscope.• Programmed a tool to communicate with an EEPROM on a powerboard.• Designed automated tests, converting from a manual process henceforth.• Trained co-workers to use test suite, acheiving a 90% reduction in testing time.

Direct Trading, LLC.• Programmed and launched two sites: DirectTrading and DirectForex.• Assembled and managed a normalized MySQL DB.• Conducted hardware and software troubleshooting for my company and floor affiliates.