Led engineering in full re-write of backend systems, moving from legacy single-tenant / multi-deployment to a true multi-tenant / single deployment model.

Led design and implementation of customer management platform that included authentication, customer onboarding, and profile managementHelped design and implement ledger syncing with partner banks. This work was crucial to facilitate things like better fraud awareness, improved customer experience, and greater insights into overall customer behaviorsCoordinated work across the team and helped to mentor and guide junior engineers. Focused mentorship on teaching design patterns and how they can be used to create more testable and maintainable softwareCoordinated solutions with product stakeholders with an aim of both meeting the business needs while not overcommitting an already busy engineering team

Designed and built platform for rapidly deploying customizable mobile apps for business partnersArchitected and implemented scaleable audio / video encoding service Leveraged Kubernetes infrastructure to improve reliability and dynamically scale resources for highly varied loadsLed successful product rollout with a small team and constrained budget

Successfully led migration from a large monolithic application to microservices. This resulted in more maintainable codebase, reduced platform / tooling lockin, and substantially better reliabilityMoved infrastructure from ad hoc EC2 instances to Kubernetes to further improve reliability and stability of services. Infrastructure-related pages went from being a weekly occurrence to a handful per yearLed development of ElasticSearch-backed applicationsDesigned, architected, implemented, and deployed internal applications along with business-critical applications for our customers

Managed agency file sharing servicesPerformed routine maintenance, backups, and migrations of the IBM Power 6 and 7 systemsPlanned for and managed physical capacity on the data center floor

Oversaw production of weekend and midweek church servicesTrained and coordinated volunteersMaintained all of the audio / video systems owned by the church

Sold and rented audio and visual equipmentAssisted in setup and teardown of live music festivals