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Saint Paul, MN, US

smokeclouds is a boutique engineering agency created to build innovative, exciting sites and applications for our clients. We’ve worked for a variety of companies and start-ups, delivering projects from prototype to contributing to major live platforms. Our work has been both as an individual contributor (usually in a Principal/Architect role) or as a.

New York, US

• Abound is a two sided marketplace, enabling independent product creators to quickly connect with boutique sellers. As principal engineer and architect, I led the charge rebuilding the platform for scale, leading the.
• In three weeks, I established several development processes and coding standards, ensuring consistent output and easier to manage code review. Alongside this, I introduced a process of team leveling with tech.
• Early in my tenure, I Initialized and managed a team to develop evolved cloud engineering based SRE practices: with the deployment of monitoring, alerting and general observability principles. In 3 months, we had an.
• Drove a significant revamp of the hiring process, to include a more genuine set of technical challenge questions and ensured we were able to gain a wider (360) view of each candidate, improving overall flow by 30%.
• Through several rounds of optimization, was able to improve the performance of the system by 250%, therefore reducing infrastructure costs and improving scale capacity, especially relevant during Black Friday/ Cyber.
• Deployed FiveTran and snowflake as the vanguard of a data strategy which helped move critical queries from expensive views in the live database into a more sustainable workspace

San Francisco, California, US

Retail Zipline is a leading communications SaaS product, enabling retail and grocery brands to deliver transformational store experiences through engaged employees, consistent execution and fast feedback. It provides an important service for many brand names with exceptional customer satisfaction.Some key highlights are:- Led development and deployment of.

Greetpoint was a bootstrapped project started to explore new and innovative ways to rethink the greeting card market. We raised a small proof of concept round to build initial prototype, concurrently launching a subscription model within 6 weeks, and first partnership within 12 weeks, recruiting six other collaborators to build this project, and while we.

New York, New York, US

As a technical leader at XO Group, my responsibilities focused on leading the teams rebuilding the editorial product and services provided internally. Starting with a team of 8, I quickly absorbed a second team of 10 focused on building the site redesign delivered by building a unified UI library. Notably, I led the build and setup of the internal guild.

New York, NY, US

With the CEO, I created a hybrid role managing and directing the tech teams for both projects. Client focus is in fashion, fragrance and luxury, with often distant relationship with technology, requiring significant translation and adaptation to find creative solutions to problems. My time was spent split between the two properties, where I led the build.

New York, NY, US

At Code and Theory I worked as a technical lead on some of the more challenging projects, acting as a key stakeholder from initial define through to managing a team for final implementation and QA. I had success in IOS and web projects, delivering work on time and in budget, solving needs effectively and using best practices to innovate ideas, for.