Working on Square's Payroll service for businesses - https://squareup.com/us/en/payroll

Projects include:[Software development at an insurance startup]• Led a significant refactor of the backend system that reduced technical debt and enabled accelerated development of new features• Developed new features across a Ruby on Rails backend and Java microservices• Worked closely with product team to scope, plan, and design the backend system to support upcoming product features and capabilities• Contributed to refining the team’s communication patterns, processes, and usage of work management tools• Mentored junior developers on the team[Worked on a team delivering an e-commerce solution for a car manufacturer]• Facilitated the transformation of an engineering and product team that was months behind schedule.• Provided leadership across product, engineering, and DevOps disciplines; consistently focused on identifying and executing on high-value improvements across engineering and product teams.• Set and communicated well-defined, measurable milestones and coordinated product and engineering efforts for delivery of an MVP, which resulted in the first ever deployment of the entire system to a production-like environment.• Worked directly with engineers to expedite delivery of features, improve testing practices, and establish CI/CD workflows to replace manual deployment process.• Facilitated repair of strained working relationship and re-establishment of trust between product team and distributed engineering team.[Software development for a company that manages a distributed fleet of networked electric vehicles]• Joined the backend team to accelerate delivery of features that enable the fleet management team to have better insights into the state of the vehicle fleet. Ruby on Rails + PostgreSQL.• Provided recommendations for refining the team’s process, DevOps infrastructure, security practices, etc.

• 2nd engineer at new startup incubator focused on public health, product innovation, and social good.• Developed data pipeline for delivering COVID lab test data used for contact tracing from state to local health departments (Elixir, AWS).• Worked on mobile application for increasing voter turnout in the 2020 election (React Native, Firebase).

• Managed and mentored 8 software engineers at various stages in their careers.• Led an effort to track and improve coordination of ongoing initiatives / projects within the Cloud Foundry management team.• Continued to provide engineering leadership as a member of engineering teams.

• Worked on 6 client consulting projects and 12 internal (Cloud Foundry) projects. Highly adaptable and comfortable with quickly learning new technologies / tools / codebases / personalities• Acted as engineering team lead (anchor) on 4 projects• Practiced software development using Agile methodology, rapid iteration, and TDD• Designed and built Continuous Integration workflows for automation of deploying software to production environments, operations, and monitoring.• Full-stack development, primarily with Rails, React.js, and golang• Member of several core teams building the Cloud Foundry platform, including Billing and Account Management, web portal, metrics / data visualization, and MySQL service

Founded a subscription-based e-commerce sock store. Sold the business after 18 months, having grown the service to over 1000 recurring subscriptions and annual recurring revenue to over $100k.Designed and built the e-commerce platform, including billing provider integration, admin interface, and fulfillment system.Responsible for all aspects of the business - technical, design, marketing, suppliers, fulfillment, management of employees, and customer support.

• Developed embedded firmware for the ARM7 processor in C and assembly language.• Performed board bringup (BSP) and implemented various application and system features (WiFi configuration, drivers, memory protection, security, bootloader, and others) for wireless network devices that comprise a Smart Grid mesh network.• Worked closely with hardware engineering, manufacturing, firmware, and test teams to bring the next generation gas meter product to market.

Research in keyword spotting, acoustic model adaptation, low-power speech recognition technology for mobile devices, and signal processing for speech applications

Designed product evaluation board with USB-based microcontroller and FPGA; wrote microcontroller firmware (C and assembly); designed communication protocol and FPGA configuration for high speed data capture. Measured A/D converter performance in laboratory environment.

Participated in development, analysis, and optimization of algorithms, interface, and testing techniques for Oasis, a solver for systems of nonlinear equations. Implemented neural networks for optimization problems.

Management: Assisted in planning and execution of all functions necessary for the successful operation of a Vector field sales office, including: recruiting, administration, sales training, sales promotion, and development of leaders through personal counseling.Sales: Demonstrated high level of motivation, initiative, leadership, and achievement in a sales environment. Provided support for other sales representatives. Reached over $48,000 in personal sales. 3-time recipient of President’s Club award for outstanding performance.