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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Tiny Services helping people make Big Decisions• Grew the Back End team from 3 to 13 engineers from a variety of backgrounds• Revamped engineering hiring processes to keep pace with evolving market trends• Held recurring 1-1 meetings with my team, providing business context, understanding career goals, and building rapport• Established an engineering career ladder & role definitions• Conducted semi-annual performance conversations, including administering compensation adjustments, setting goals, promoting engineers, and administering performance improvement plans• Collaborated with leaders across the tech, product, and design departments on quarterly OKR planningStack/Tools: Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

• Created an internal site for system monitoring, leading to identification of key opportunities for cost savings and increased efficiency.• Integrated with several external APIs (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Shopify, SendGrid and more)• Created and maintained our own oauth2 REST API for internal and external use. • Refactored existing Azure-hosted microservices to allow down-sizing VMs while still handling several million email engagement events per day, saving the company hundreds of dollars each month and eliminating downtime and delayed email reporting.• Designed and implemented an e-commerce integration, allowing us to launch a new e-commerce product offering.• Rewrote our email sending infrastructure to remove bottlenecks and enable a 50x improvement in email send performance, eliminating customer delays.• Integrated with LetsEncrypt to automate SSL certificate generation for customer websites.• Wrote an in-house URL-shortener so we wouldn’t have to pay bit.ly thousands of dollars each month. • Created, maintained and enhanced native iOS and Android apps and cross platform (Xamarin) apps.SnapRetail is a Software As A Service (SaaS) company that offers a comprehensive online marketing solution to independent retailers. The platform combines numerous digital marketing tools into a single, easy-to-use interface and simplifies the process of engaging with customers online to increase sales. The company has enabled thousands of retailers to grow their businesses via websites, email marketing, and social media. SnapRX takes these tools and tailors them to the independent pharmacy, along with custom pharmacy related content.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Responsible for new features and enhancements for an advertising deal management platform consisting of .NET desktop applications and an Oracle backend.• Increased save/load performance of large deals by 250 percent by implementing multithreading, optimizing code and tuning database queries.• Created a prototype app for clients migrating from older versions of the platform. Reduced migration time from 5-15 hours to as fast as ten minutes, with increased feedback and error tolerance.• Coordinated 3rd party library and infrastructure upgrades across the division.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

I worked on a market leading equity derivatives research website and 50+ supporting batch processes. The system provides intraday options and futures data, and is built using technologies such as Java, JSPs, Tapestry, EXT-JS, and Apache DWR. Worked directly with the derivatives research desk to determine requirements and to implement new features.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Part of the Deal Planning transformation team, tasked with re-writing a windows application in C# using Windows Presentation Foundation, Infragistics controls, and Windows Communications Foundation services.

Boston, Ma, Us

I worked on a new interactive employee portal for 800+ employees using technologies such as C# .NET and AJAX.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Computer Engineering

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