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Taking an extended break to de-stress, move across the country, and find a role that better aligns with my personal values.

Worked one-on-one with engineers across all teams to provide mentorship, remove blockers, and generally help them grow. Aided with technical analysis and design across product teams. Worked with a newly formed Site Reliability team to increase stability and monitoring capabilities.

Led a small team maintaining and expanding Prime Trust's compliance platform. Worked with the Product team to scope and prioritize features, and performed as an individual contributor. Mentored engineers via one-on-one chats and pair programming.Tech stack was a Ruby API, built on top of the Roda framework, backed by PostgreSQL, running on Heroku.

Working with investors to design and develop internal tools to help identify and track investment opportunities. Contributing to product design and development tasks.Maintaining and improving a data pipeline, consuming several third-party APIs, and exposing the results to the investment team. Using a combination of Postgres, RabbitMQ, Rails, Redis, and S3.

San Francisco, California, United States

Managed a team of four Developers and Senior Developers, providing one-on-one mentorship and career guidance. Also perform the duties outlined below.

San Francisco

Consulted with clients to bring their products to market quickly, improve process and performance, and upskill developers through mentoring and pairing. Worked with founders, product managers, designers, and developers to prioritize features and tasks, focusing on value and solving people problems.Collaborated with coworkers to consistently improve each.

Anchorage, Alaska, United States

Performed all duties mentioned below, in addition to leading presentations and workshops, pushing for higher standards, and working with other Technical Leads to pave the technological path for the company.

Anchorage, Alaska, United States

Performed all duties mentioned below, while leading small project teams. Provided mentorship for junior developers.

Anchorage, Alaska, United States

Worked with developers and business analysts to build software for enterprises, primarily focused on improving safety and efficiency for teams working with oil, gas, and water pipelines.Worked with C# and ASP.NET web applications, WPF desktop applications, Oracle PL/SQL procedures, and Ruby scripts for deployment and configuration.

Worked in a large team on a J2EE web application for calculating and collecting property taxes.

Primary responsibilities were installing and maintaining hardware/software. Resolved technical problems quickly to minimize downtown of any manufacturing equipment.