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Columbus, Oh, Us

Buffalo, New York, Us

I built and designed many of the core systems used at the company. I helped the company grow from Series C to post IPO, from 16 developers to over 150. I started multiple teams, building their technical and cultural success.• Led pilot of generative AI solutions with custom automated testing and feedback systems.• Led massive refactoring of core systems as growth exceeded 100x volume of original design.• Led Pilot of next-generation front-end framework to scale web and mobile development by 10x.• Advises on next-generation data store layers to allow for multi-cloud scaling.• Leads technical culture and leadership through guild structure.• Led multiple initiatives to reduce technology organization spending by 10%.

Buffalo, New York, Us

• Designed real-time event architecture that is our source of truth. Implemented practice of data integrity at the source.• Led team to redesign core bidding business service to a horizontally scalable servce in 12 weeks. • Led team to move from quarterly releases (with down-time) to daily, zero down-time releases.• Architected and built ACV Capital lending product line to deliver MVP to customers in 10 weeks. Led technical team from myself to 10 individuals over 1 year. Exceeded every OKR in 2021 and shifted more focus of investment for following year.• Architected and led team to build private marketplace bidding after 10 weeks. Delivered MVP a full 6 months ahead of schedule. • Started MLOps to deploy multiple machine learning models with CI/CD and weekly refreshes of trained models.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Technical lead on multiple customer facing web applications. Working as part of a redesign of the customer facing web and mobile clients.• Designed and implement breakup of E-commerce monolith to scale system by 100x. • Joined 2-year stalled project to full production release in less than 4 months. • Implemented company first automated CI/CD pipeline to all non-prod environments. • Moved department from 1 release per quarter, to weekly releases.• Completed 500+ phone screens for department and created custom HackerRank coding test.• Implemented pharmacy site, taking stalled project with 2+ years of work to full rollout in 9 months. • Started a culture of real-time, production monitoring. Improved site stability to 99.995% uptime.• Changed the culture with first open-source contributions.

Cincinnati, Us

• Built and designed in-store, real-time cell phone activation system for Best Buy Mobile.• Saw inception of multiple projects to full deployment in over 5,000 stores with more than 15,000 machines.• Led POS rollout of Best Buy Mobile, Bass Pro Shops, Cabellas, Sunglass Hut, Lenscrafters, Shoppers Drug Mart (Canada), Oxxo convenience store (Mexico), Pearl Vision.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

• Replaced proprietary imaging software with open source alternative.• Ported parts of the STDLIB library to multiple PocketPC architectures.• Designed scalable storage specification for report archiving.

Santiago, Santiago, Cl

• Provided technical customer support in Spanish.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

• Performed software testing and maintenance for vibration analysis application suite.

M.S. Science, Computer Engineering

B.S., Computer Engineering