Led and expanded the Core team (7 engineers) on key projects utilizing Python, Django, Celery, Redis, TypeScript, React, Redux. Prioritized and led the implementation of full-stack customer-facing features and projects.

Enhanced backend Python code to improve system performance and observability (OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, PostgreSQL).

Spearheaded a strategic initiative to enhance development velocity, resulting in a 30% reduction in test suite execution time from approximately 25 minutes to 16 minutes.

Engineering Manager (Core team)

Developing new features and supporting backend API services for large-scale cloud-based games using AWS and Ruby on Rails.

Senior Software Developer

  
Worked with Ember.js, jQuery, Handlebars.js, Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails, Node.js on an event ticket platform.
Created a bridge between React.js and Ember framework to be able to  use React componets within Ember (including two-way data binding).
Integrated and implemented Optimizely A/B testing
Integrated Sift for fraud checking of accounts
During internal hackathons, implemented a video embed element using  oEmbed, and implemented mobile phone delivery of tickets using the  Twilio API, implemented a basic GraphQL server integration with  React.js, worked with Elm and Node.js to implement a voting/polling  application for internal discussions.
Ported a major section of the website, the dashboard, to a newer  version of Ember.js during the effort to split the web app into multiple  micro-services. Participated in Agile process with Pivotal tracker and Zenhub, reviewed  code with Github pull requests.
Collaborated on setting up the unit testing and acceptance testing  infrastructure for the web app frontend using QUnit and other Ember.js  tools.
Streamlined the onboarding process by setting up virtual machines  for the micro-services architecture with VirtualBox and Amazon AWS EC2  instances.
Worked on a redesign of the dashboard in collaboration with  managers, product designers and client sales support, a prominent  user-facing set of features and web pages.
Implemented the hooks for Zapier API integration.
Updated API documentation for 3rd party developers, created example  code using Node.js and OAuth for 3rd party developers to work with.
Mentored newer developers in an informal way to onboard them.  Updated internal wiki with onboarding documentation to grow the  knowledge base of the team.
Updated Fastly CDN configuration for web services and implemented Queue-It waiting queue for ticket sales.

Software Developer

 
Worked on implementing a project that  was in development for over a year and pushed it toward the finish line  and a launch. Maintained the software afterward.
Worked on the design and implementation of a new project using  Django, Django Rest Framework, ReactJS with some SPA (Single Page  Application) components.
Integrated Django web app with .NET/C# backend using HTTP/REST and RabbitMQ message passing.

 
Worked on two Django-based projects as part of a team. Acted as lead developer for one project and mentored a junior developer.
Acted as senior developer on the other project, working with two  junior developers and a tech lead, code reviewing and mentoring the  junior developers.
Worked with external REST APIs. Both projects were new code, one  project was delivered to the client and the other project was far enough  ahead to function as a prototype for the client.

Full Stack Web Developer

Created a data conversion script for TV programming schedules, using Common Lisp, deployed to Windows 7.
Added Google AdWords to a mobile website built in Ruby on Rails for a  client. Also did some maintenance on the site. Fully documented the  setup of their sites and servers.
In charge of day-to-day technical work that Go August does. Taking care of servers and can do PHP programming and database work.
Installed and setup lighttpd, MySQL, Nagios, Drupal 7, and custom  PHP5 scripts on a Linode VPS server. Setup Drupal 7 as a multi-site  installation and used it multiple domain names and configured the users  and modules available to each installation.
Installed and setup postfix, dovecot, and spamassassin. Maintained  email servers using Nagios monitoring, custom shell scripts, and custom  Python scripts for user account management.
Handled tech. support when necessary and communicated technical changes to clients.
Monitored Google analytics for the websites hosted by GoAugust and suggested improvements to clients.
Installed and set up GNUSocial/Status.net and ThinkUpApp for demonstration purposes.
Created a Wordpress theme based on the default theme according to a  Photoshop given to me by a graphic designer. Installed and configured  Wordpress.
Created a prototype web application using Django/Python for a client.  Created a more featureful and performance-enhanced version of the web  application using the Common Lisp programming language, the Hunchentoot  web server and AJAX/jQuery.

Software Engineering Consultant/Co-Founder

Designed website layouts using the 960 Grid System CSS framework, the Compass framework and the GIMP image editor.
This was a contract position
Wrote custom Python scripts for generating websites. To create  invoices, I used the Emacs text editor as a simple time-tracking tool. I  also used HTML and the Jinja/Django templating system. Used Tcl/expect,  some BASH scripting to automate updating of websites.
Set up Google AdWords account for the website. Monitored and analzyed  the statistics of the ads that were run on the Google search engine.  Based on this data, adjustments were made to the advertising budget and  to the keywords assigned.
Used the C programming language to integrate and replace a library within a a Mac OS X-based application

Software Developer/Co-founder

Web apps at scale for fintech.

I've worked in marketing agencies that have used Django for marketing and advertisement campaigns that incorporated Facebook tabs, REST APIs, PostgreSQL and jQuery.

Worked on large-scale REST API Rails websites for an event ticketing site and for Zynga, one of the largest mobile/social games companies on the planet.

I recorded an hour long video course for PacktPub on how to use the AngularJS framework with unit tests and integration/acceptance tests. As a contractor I worked on an AngularJS site for managing pharmacy appointments and on another web app for WebRTC video chat rooms. For a personal project I integrated AngularJS with Firebase and Google Calendar to be able to generate invoices.

In the last year I have worked with Ember.js and React to develop an event ticketing website.

In previous jobs I have worked extensively with jQuery and jQuery plugins. On one site I developed a QA-assistance tool for checking the results of a product survey web app.

I have worked on multiple plugins and modes for Emacs such as emacs-sos for searching StackOverflow and angularjs-mode. The project I'm most proud of is org-doing which lets users quickly record the tasks that they are working on during the day, and also includes Emacs-Cucumber unit tests.

For every single job I have had, I always write custom emacs-lisp functions to help me do my work faster. The functions are usually for automating or for searching through code.

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