Volunteer software engineer - backend and frontend, visualizations.

Founding member of the Human team, whose mission is to create unique product solutions to difficult social problems in housing, livelihood creation, and bias/perception. Created the Open Homes platform (https://www.airbnb.com/openhomes) to facilitate Airbnb hosts opening their home for free for good causes; starting with housing refugees and victims of disaster. Integrated and updated our internal disaster response tooling. Housed tens of thousands of people in need all over the… Show more Founding member of the Human team, whose mission is to create unique product solutions to difficult social problems in housing, livelihood creation, and bias/perception. Created the Open Homes platform (https://www.airbnb.com/openhomes) to facilitate Airbnb hosts opening their home for free for good causes; starting with housing refugees and victims of disaster. Integrated and updated our internal disaster response tooling. Housed tens of thousands of people in need all over the world.Hands on with all aspects of product development, engineering, team strategy, vision, and hiring for all roles. Responsible for all aspects of our products, from user facing to backend services. Show less

A startup within a startup developing Airbnb Experiences. Joined a team of 5, planning unique & innovative trips by hand for guests with spreadsheets and docs. Member of leadership team consisting of peer leads, 3 executives, and select outside advisors. Worked directly with our executive staff and stake holders throughout the company to develop the product and keep all parties appraised and in sync despite blistering pace & rapid changes.Scaled from pre-product (serving single… Show more A startup within a startup developing Airbnb Experiences. Joined a team of 5, planning unique & innovative trips by hand for guests with spreadsheets and docs. Member of leadership team consisting of peer leads, 3 executives, and select outside advisors. Worked directly with our executive staff and stake holders throughout the company to develop the product and keep all parties appraised and in sync despite blistering pace & rapid changes.Scaled from pre-product (serving single digit guests once every ~6 weeks in one test city) to product market fit with platform integration across multiple destinations.Hands on with all aspects of the product development, from vision to specs to engineering to team building. Show less

Production Infrastructure / Site Reliability Team, 1.9 years: scalability and reliability, performance, configuration management, incident response, data stores, developer tools, deployment, build & release, generally all things production and cloud.Core Web Team: Responsible for the holistic website such as the massive site-wide rebrand July 2014, transforming Airbnb into a responsive website, and developing v2 of our internal API.Security Team: Managed the Airbnb security team.

Created many products from scratch with teams the size of 1-5.Mobile Website, a mobile version of the Airbnb website.Community Groups, a host to host community communication platform.Email delivery service, responsible for billions of messages to our users.Internal Tools, such as a visual deployment system for engineering.Many other projects both internal and external.

Creators of the award winning FederalRegister.gov. Critical Juncture specializes in creating open source web application in Ruby on Rails.Frontend Development and Design of FederalRegister.gov and numerous other web applications.

Worked on a number of RoR appsBackbone apps for visualizing dataRoR & Flex app for collaborative presentation creation and displayMuch, much more

Designed and developed a small brochure site

Managed department website and computers systems. Advised staff on technology use.

Taught professors and graduate students multimedia skills one on one. Managed/maintained the computer lab and computer classroom.