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Irvine, Ca, Us

As the senior member of the Order Middleware team, responsible for designing and developing an event driven digital order processing stack in an AWS "serverless first" ecosystem. The stack is responsible for processing all Taco Bell digital orders (Taco Bell mobile app, Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grubhub), representing $7B revenue annually. Solely responsible for implementing automated AWS multi region failover for the entire digital order processing stack. Increased stack visibility 500% while simultaneously reducing monthly AWS costs 35% by introducing structured log statements queryable in Athena.Mentored junior staff.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Senior member of the Investment Products division engineering team.Responsible for architecture, design, heads down development of the API Store, integrating and aggregating financial data from several internal and external vendor data sources.Led the effort to identify and pay down a substantial amount of tech debt. Mentored junior staff.Stack: NodeJS, Serverless framework, AWS Lambda, GraphQL, AWS EC2, Redis, AWS RDS MySQL, AWS SQS, Gitlab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes

Responsible for all aspects of the business: product development, product roadmap, support, marketing (SEO, Google Ads, Content Marketing, Google Analytics, Social).Single handedly architected and built the product (an IP address geolocation API) over a 6 month period.Stack: NodeJS, Serverless framework, AWS API Gateway, AWS Lambda, AWS EC2, Redis, AWS RDS Postgres, AWS SNS, AWS Cloudfront, AWS Cloudwatch, AWS S3, Recurly integration, Sendgrid integration, Google Analytics

London, Gb

Reported directly to the CEO. Solely responsible for managing all aspects of the engineering division within this account based marketing and advertising startup. Led a distributed team of 10 engineers across 4 time zones.Responsible for the Architecture, Design and Product Roadmap of Jabmo's next generation ad tech platform. Implementation (and legacy product sunset) completed in 3 months.Stack: Java, SpringBoot, Javascript, Python, AWS EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Kinesis, AWS S3, AWS Lambda, AWS EMR, AWS Redshift, AWS RDS Postgres, AWS Cloudfront, AWS Cloudwatch, Snowplow

London, Gb

Single handedly architected, designed and built the product (a streaming IOT telematics solution for the auto insurance industry) over a 3 year period.Supported the CEO in Business Development (pitches, public speaking events, sales calls, seed round planning and campaign).Enjoyed a 3 month residency in an insurtech startup accelerator.Stack: Java, NodeJS, Android, AWS API Gateway, AWS Lambda, AWS EC2, AWS Cloudwatch, AWS S3, Docker, Kafka, Storm, Cassandra, CentOS

Madison, Wi, Us

Responsible for implementing a large portion of American Families first vehicle telematics solution, one of American Families first "Big Data" initiatives.Participated in several “Big Data” proof of concepts as the sole technical resource. Architected, designed and built several rating and premium calculation solutions in a Web Services/SOA ecosystem.Stack: J2EE, Java, CXF, JBoss, MQ Series, Oracle, Hadoop, Map Reduce, Hive, Pig, HBase