Managed multiple work streams across the org with the bulk of the time being spent with the web team.- Grew the web team from 3 full stack engineers to 8 full stack engineers, 3 QA Testers, and 1 AQA.- Work with the staffed up web team to migrate www.davidzwirner.com and www.davidzwirnerbooks.com from SiteCore to SanityCMS + NextJS including integrations with Shopify.- Led the start of our Mobile Sales Tool effort. Working with product on initial requirements and leading the search for a engineering lead for the work stream- Led the engineering side of a effort to select, onboard and migrate to Aprimo DAM- Resource and lead a small team effort for Photo team automations- Propose AWS Account design and security best practices. Work with DevOps team on implementation.

As Director of Engineering, my role has expanded and transitioned to focus on bigger picture initiatives, recruit talent, and collaborate across business, product, design and engineering to develop roadmaps and extract technical requirements for business initiatives. • Plan, lead and implement AWS infrastructure automation and cloud architecture projects. • Work with direct reports to manage performance, career planning and mentoring.• Hiring and retain engineers in New York and Belfast. Developing and refining hiring practices along the way. At times this was collaborating with internal and external recruiters and other times I've taken the role of recruiter as well.• Leading the teams through the trails and tribulations of the global COVID-19 pandemic, shifting to remote work, navigating capacity reductions, and shifting market conditions• Mentor team leads that don't directly report to me• Continually look for ways to improve the engineering team and implement these improvements.• Work with business, product, design, and engineering to develop OKRs and map engineering initiatives that help deliver on the objectives.• Engaging in Cloud FinOps and cost control of cloud spend to ensure cost effective use of cloud resources, allowing me to support the leadership team with predictable pricing for various growth scenario• Evaluate software vendor solutions and engage with those vendors to determine cost and value.• Architect software solutions for business needs and break down the solution into a project that can be implemented by the team and myself.• Direct the development and ongoing maintenance of our Web Platform in JS/Rails, our data aggregation platform in python/kinesis, and a series of integrations that connect our platform to CRMs such as Salesforce.

• Managed and grew the backend and infrastructure teams.• Led the development of the listing ingestion pipeline with additional responsibilities, including building and maintaining the Ruby on Rails graphql interface, image uploading service, chat & sms integrations, infrastructure automation, and monitoring and developer tooling. • Design GraphQL and REST APIs to facilitate this development. • Systems design and architecture for services that need to interact via API calls or events.• Managed IOS engineering in 2019, to develop mobile client and broker application.

• In almost 8 years with the organization, my role changed overtime from Startup Engineer to Director of Mobile Engineering• Build, grew, and managed small and mid-sized IOS, Android and Integration teams, both locally in New York City as well as remote

• Build first two IOS applications for uploading digital assets to digital asset management system, and management tracking app• Developed Django platform for social content creation recommendations• Developed background scripts to ingest and parse RSS and Twitter feeds to feed recommendation engine• Developed social integrations for reading data from and posting content to social platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, etc)• Set up the AWS infrastructure and deployment.

• Worked on a small team (4 -5 individual) to build up a pylons python stack• Built push notification service• Build celery task flows to async jobs

• Built a google app engine service for generating content websites for parked domains based on their domain name and using Inform's semantic engine to find and populate content making it a fully functional news site.

• Worked on the Emerging Technologies team using C# .NET to build new features for their product as well as convert legacy features to the new platform.• Built exception and bug tracking interface

Started as a QA engineer and through that started fixing bugs in the system.Then became a Java engineer working on various features for the product.

• Built a Content management solution all using *Gasp* Flash and ActionScript.Also worked as a video producer and editor for them.