As the founding engineer of SmallScale, I have the opportunity to be on all sides of the coin, as the idea grows. From ideation to execution to growth, it is necessary to be involved and nimble. Understanding how to grow key relationships, leveraging the same software our clients do, enables us to make the decision making process a little bit simpler and more straight-forward.Key Responsibilities Include:- Ideating and growing the product, both as a mobile app and a desktop app- Developing the applications so users can solve problems in their lives more easily, improving their communities as an indirect result- Creating and growing key opportunities with strategic business partners, ranging from non-profit business associations to large corporations, seeking to grow their local communities

As the Director of Way2B1, I was given the opportunity to lead and help mature a team of developers to bring the team to the next level. With the growth of the company, I was tasked with ensuring the team was clearly disseminated from leadership, being responsible to ensure that the vision and product direction were in sync, frequently providing updates in both directions. Given our customers' privacy and security were first priority at all times, our company all worked together to create features and advance our app to provide excellent usability, while maintaining security standards above all else.Key Responsibilities Include:- Leading a department of 19 people, including a QA team, an ML/AI team, three full-stack (React.js and Node) engineering teams, as well as integrating React Native mobile development into the plans- Leading major four major architectural changes, ranging from SCM (git) and CI/CD pipeline migrations to massive application and feature consolidations- Working with product and leadership teams to bring our leadership's vision to life through proper roadmap and initiative driven project planning, yielding clearer direction to engineers with a direct impact on productivity and defect counts- Helping direct the ML team to bring two new features using AWS' OCR and LLM primitives to ease the onboarding and asset management of a person's life- Working with our DevOps, QA members, and principal engineers to ensure that we had a security-focused CI/CD pipeline to catch issues before they became problems, guaranteeing our customers' privacy and security at all times- Successfully passed through two SOC2 compliance reviews, including deep penetration testing, dropping severe issues from seven to zero year over year- Helping grow a SaaS sales strategy and payment flow to better encourage organic growth,working with the sales team to meet key financial goals through product packages and add-ons