Kanekto is a small startup developing a product to make employees feel more connected in large organizations. It gives employees the opportunity to connect with each other around their personal hobbies, bridging the gap between teams and levels.As the initial engineer, I am happy to have had the opportunity to:- work with the rest of the early team to define the company's goals and product- decide on architecture, tools, frameworks, languages, engineering culture- implement all things backend: REST API, database schema, DTO definition, monitoring, deployment- build a web video application that we ended up not using (yeah we made some mistakes)- work with excellent engineers in the US and Ukraine, including productive standups, design reviews, and code reviews- enjoy collaborating with everybody in the company, communicating all things good and bad with complete transparency

- rebuilt internships.com- improved the thinkful.com platform quality- started a microservices initiative using Kotlin and gRPC

Server side functional, quality, and performance enhancements for a marketing web product

Synapse.ai was an angel-funded, Stanford StartX accelerator company. We were developing an enterprise virtual assistant solution that enabled mobile professionals to access the information they needed while on-the-go with an easy to use and intuitive voice and text interface.As an early engineer (employee #4) at a small company, the job involved a little bit of everything: writing backend services with REST APIs to provide various functions, setting up and defining ElasticSearch clusters, configuring and using Kaldi for speech recognition, iOS development, deployment automation, NLP and rudimentary DSP in python.

Synapse.ai was a part of the Stanford StartX accelerator Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 classes

- build scalable performant systems with straightforward concise code- design, review, and hopefully add value to ecosystem expansion projects- head up a team of superstarslooking back down memory lane, I've written...- an ad decisioning engine (java)- iOS and android apps and libraries (objective-c and java)- a real-time data aggregation system (java, using cassandra and kafka)- various infrastructure tools because it was a startup and things just needed getting done