In late 2018, AffiniPay launched the Custom Solutions team in order to quickly build solutions for large customers and partners. This team requires a thorough knowledge of AffiniPay’s systems and APIs as well as the ability to quickly create solutions that fit into customer’s existing workflows. This team is an integral part of the strategy to win enterprise-class merchants and partners.

As AffiniPay continued to invest in engineering and technology, a single team grew into multiple teams. By the end of 2018, engineering consisted of more than 30 people. At the same time, we also established a new Product Team that began working closely with engineering’s scrum teams to release new product features on a regular cadence.My primary focus was recruiting and retaining talent, helping establish the processes within engineering, and ensuring new integration partners were successful with their implementations.

In 2015, AffiniPay decided to begin building a permanent, full-fledged engineering team and to make technology a core part of the business strategy. By the end of 2016, we added a dozen new employees across different engineering disciplines including Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, DevOps, Technical Writing, and UX.In this time we also launched many important product features including support for Canadian merchant accounts, EMV chip card support, an Android app, and API documentation for our partners. We also grew our number of integrated partners to about a dozen.

I was brought in originally to help complete the creation of AffiniPay’s Ruby on Rails web app that would go on to completely replace a third party vendor’s product that the company was reselling. We launched the application three months later and migrated approximately 20,000 merchants to it over the next few months. Myself and two other engineers were the only technical resources during this time and we worked closely with the company’s founders to design, build, and release new features such as recurring payments, improved reporting, and an iOS application.

Spiceworks offers products to IT professionals. Their original business model was to offer free downloadable tools such as network device discovery/inventory and a helpdesk ticket management system. These free downloads were monetized through in-app ads. They also managed a large online community for IT professionals and eventually went on to offer subscription-based online tools.While at Spiceworks I worked on updating the UI for their Help Desk product to bring it in line with new internal UI/UX and development standards.

Pace built hardware/software solutions for telecommunication companies. This includes devices and management systems for popular US services such as AT&T Uverse. Pace was acquired by Arris Group for $2.1B in 2015. Arris was subsequently acquired by CommScope for $7.4B in 2018.As technical lead, I was responsible for the design and implementation of the device and service management products. The device management product is an enterprise application and can scale to manage millions of TR69 CPEs. The service management product allows service providers to define, provision, and troubleshoot the services they offer to their subscribers while hiding the complexities of the underlying device management protocols.

2Wire was a San Jose, CA based company with a satellite office in Austin. The company's main product were DSL modems sold to telecoms, mostly AT&T. The Austin office's primary focus was developing the system management software used to support these devices. The company was acquired by Pace in 2010.I joined 2Wire to work as part of the UI team whose main product was a management console built on the Flex UI framework. I became the lead of that team and we worked to create the next generation management console on the Vaadin UI Framework. I would later become the technical lead for both the front-end and back-end teams.

Storspeed was a startup founded in 2007 that received $13 million in funding to build a zero-configuration, network-resident file storage caching solution. In 2010, the company folded but its IP and a few developers were acquired and used to launch a new startup called CacheIQ (purchased by NetApp in 2012).The product consisted of a cluster of 2U, rack-mounted high-performance custom appliances that could inspect network traffic and accelerate access to file-based storage by caching file blocks in RAM.I joined before we even had office space and worked with other early employees to begin designing the product. I owned building the management web application for the Storspeed product. The application was an SPA built using GWT and Flash (for interactive charts) and used techniques such as AJAX Push to synchronize the user interface with the management server in realtime. The application was used to set cluster configuration and policies; monitor hardware status, policy effectiveness and network traffic; and to generate reports. I also built a service registry for Thrift-based services to enable node-to-node cluster communication. This functionality was used to log management events from the cluster to the management server.

Mirage Networks was a network security company that was founded in 2001, received three rounds of funding, and was acquired by Trustwave in 2009. Their main product was a network access control solution that could detect unauthorized access and policy violations and quickly isolate offending devices.I was an active participant in the design and development of the 3.0 version of the product which represented a complete rewrite of most of the product’s components. I was also the lead for the user interface team responsible for the development of the next generation operations console which was built using Eclipse RCP and model-driven development techniques. From the operations console, the Mirage appliances are configured, network devices are monitored, and reports are generated.

Pervasive Software was a public company from 1997 until it was acquired by Actian Corporation in 2013 for $162 million. It’s main products were an embeddable SQL database and various ETL tools.A few of the things I accomplished over my six years at Pervasive include:- Built a graphical designer for the Dataflow product. Dataflow is a node-based, highly parallel processing environment for high performance ETL operations.- Lead for company-wide user interface team responsible for moving all the product's user interfaces to Eclipse-based RCP technology. Responsible for UI design best-practices and training global development team in Eclipse RCP/plug-in technologies.- Owned the design and implementation for key enhancements to several core product components including Pervasive's JDBC driver, portions of its OLEDB provider, and developed the prototype for Pervasive's .NET managed provider.- Assisted with the development of a cross-platform C++ class library used by most Pervasive products, allowing them to be compiled with minimal modifications on several platforms including x86/Win32, x86/Linux, x86/Netware, and Sparc/Solaris.