Project management, design, full-stack engineering, production, marketing & live ops formultiplayer strategy games on the web; developed proprietary game engine as well as 2.5D rendering & animation engine; hired & managed globally distributed contract product dev’t teams; coordinated with sponsors, publishers & ad monetization networks.

Founder / Lead Developer

● Spearheaded adoption of New Relic browser monitoring & better error handling practices; instrumented APM dashboards & error/performance triage workflows.
● Migrated build/deploy step from Vercel to GitHub Actions (with Vercel integration), unlocking test automation & post-deploy codeflows, etc.
● Advocated for & implemented improvements in story handoff / code delivery
processes, reducing friction with product/design teams as well as PR hang times.
● Advocated for & implemented code architectural & build/deploy improvements, improving pace of feature delivery, and reducing frequency of bugs/regressions.

Sr. Software Engineer

Full stack development for ConversationKit, Apple’s conversational intelligence
platform.

Sr. Full Stack Engineer

● Developed Vue.js/Vuetify/Nuxt front ends (essentially cloning AWS Console) with Node.js/Hapi/GraphQL API, exceeding pre-production timeline expectations.
● Invented dynamic generation of GraphQL queries against versioned schema,
improving workflows & reducing code, reducing API calls (n APIs requested with one all), automating query validation at build time.
● Rescued a failed front-end design/components library project after an external team failed to deliver.
● Interviewed & mentored new hires; played a lead role in architectural planning.

● Helped stand up the company’s 1st storefront, going from zero to 6-figure (USD) monthly revenue by the 4th month of my employ.
● Refactored & optimized isomorphic web app server, reducing production instances from 10~20 to 3~5, and p50/p99 latency from “wildly unacceptable” to ~40/300ms.
● Introduced modern patterns & practices to front- and back-end codebases, reducing bug frequency & QA cycles, and accelerating the pace of code delivery.
● Migrated products database from MongoDB to ElasticSearch, boosting query
performance & unlocking faceted search, type-ahead search, relevancy queries, etc.
● Wrote & optimized product data ingest & export scripts for one-button execution on a catalog of ~400k products in ~30 minutes (from a manual process that took hours).
● Implemented canonical URLs, sitemap generator, redirect & 404 routines, etc, increasing Google-indexed pages from ~80k to ~500k and improving search rankings.

Wrote Node.js/Express microservices with RESTful APIs in TypeScript for new product prototype. Developed internal tools in React for devOps & community management. Integration work with mobile client in React-Native. Mocha/Chai for testing.

Full Stack Engineer

Worked with streaming video tech & CDN server config; QA for video clients & SDK's for web, iOS, Android, etc; customer support ticketing system; coded plug-ins for Flash video players; acquired by Akamai.

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