Founding Engineer tasked with building out a massive platform for solo-entrepreneurs launching subscription businesses. Leading a team of 9 engineers, overseeing architecture and infrastructure, and working to help each engineer develop their skillset. I focused on full-stack typescript, AWS, SES and ECS on top of Postgres. Next.js on Vercel for front-end, and Nest.js on ECS for backend. I developed a novel datamodel to faciliate collaborative subscriptions, revenue sharing, and a mix of content-based offerings and physical products.

Head of Engineering

Originally brought in to manage an offshore team, but ended up taking over development going on to create an enormous platform for real-time medical/wheelchair transport.Working with mobile engineers developing rider and driver apps, I built the backend infrastructure for real-time ride hailing (think Uber), and a web platform for municipalities who wished to improve their wheelchair transport services.I developed novel systems for grouping rides together to create more efficient microtransit routes that were a hybrid between bus routes and individual ride-hailing systems.

Director of Engineering

Working remotely from Portland to help build a university from scratch. I currently develop internal tools for Minerva academic team members, as well as contribute to the Active Learning Forum: A cutting edge virtual class room that leverages the very latest WebRTC and Javascript tech. I&#x27;m named on a patent for our novel curriculum development software, and I play a large roll in overall system architecture and and software design principles.

Senior Software Engineer

I worked with a very talented team of front-end engineers to build https://www.houndify.com, a platform to allow companies to leverage SoundHound&#x27;s powerful Speech-to-Meaning AI in their own projects.

Building and developing countless front-end JS features ranging from the Uber.com web properties, to the Share My ETA feature in the app. Worked closely on the Web-core team to develop best practices around web-development. OO CSS, build and deployment methods, platforms for developing and sharing modular applications to help speed up dev time. Extensive experience building, profiling, and scaling Express.js applications, and complex front-end applications using React.js, Browserify, Backbone (among many other stacks). Led many engineering efforts, and worked closely with the product teams to come up with countless new products.

Did TDD work in Rails with lots of deep work in Ruby itself. I worked full-stack, and spent a lot of time on the front-end as well. Working with CSS3, and Javascript to create a lot of unique UI experiences for end users.Developed an AI system based on the PageRank algorithm to match task rabbit&#x27;s with posted jobs

Software Engineer II

Used Chef scripts to deploy ROR backends during the hardcore days of AWS EC2. The goal was creating a media pipeline to process large volumes of video, extract thumbnails, and move that video around the world to be worked on by crowd-sourced video editing professionals. We built a front-end platform using Backbone.js to help people dust off their old home video footage and create compelling clips that they will actually watch. All at a price that the average person could afford. In 2010 this thesis failed largely due to the fact that broadband internet was not all the fast or all that common as we thought. In retrospect, we would have gone to market with a drop-shipping service to allow people to send us their footage on a hard-drive or on actual tapes rather than uploading it to us.

Founding Software Engineer

Worked for a few large RoR shops for a number of years, and started a few of my own businesses on top of RoR. I can help debug, teach OO principles, or offer input on tackling algorithms problems in a Ruby Specific way.

I have been building massive Javascript applications for many years, and I've spent much of that time pioneering the business applications of cutting edge frameworks. I started working with Backbone when it was in Beta, and the same for React.js. I'm very well versed in all aspects of Javascript application development, from the server, to the front-end, and everything in between.

I've worked with Python for a number of years, and have a fairly good grasp of it and how to debug the various python applications commonly found in the wild.

Life long tinkerer, expert JS programmer, expert problem solver

Casen

I attempted a double major in Math and Computer Science, but I ran out of steam and decided to graduate once my CS requirements were complete.

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