Experienced Software Engineer and AI evangelist—using and advocating for AI to ship faster and solve harder problems.
Seeking teammates and projects where innovation and craft matter.
Git, Cursor, VS Code, OpenAI, Prompt Engineering, Playwright, Terraform
Employment
Software Engineer
Subscribe Platform
2023 - Present (New York, NY/ Remote)
Individual Contributor on Subscribe's Product Team
Wrote major features for products such as: Data Room, Due Diligence, Marketing. Best practices in DB Architecture, Code Quality, Testing.
Software Engineer
HireArt
2022 - 2023 (New York, NY/ Remote)
Individual Contributor on HireArt's Platform Team
Focused on innovation: refactoring, speed, new features, developer productivity/happiness.
Worked with various business users to dramatically improve various aspects of HireArt's Rails monolith.
VP of Engineering; Consultant
Ozone AI
2020 - 2022 (Los Angeles, CA / Remote)
Personally wrote Minimum Viable Product of https://www.ozone.ai
Hired, trained, and managed team of software engineers to enhance, extend, and scale the MVP vision.
Reached 50,000+ registered users, 30+ million web-browsing records in June 2021.
Chief Technology Officer
E-Commerce Startups (various)
2017-2024 [Intermittent]
Owner responsible for startup's technology.
Completely rebuilt operations of small e-commerce business. Incrementally replaced inefficient fulfillment done on a shared Google Sheet with a modern web application built
on Webpack, React, Redux, and Rails 6.
Released consumer-facing "self-style" feature that fundamentally changed the business. Cloned 80% of the features of www.cratejoy.com creating $250,000 of enterprise value.
Software Engineer
Le Tote
2015-2017 (San Francisco, CA)
Software Engineer involved in planning, coding, and maintenance of core website features for VC-backed startup
Used the following technologies to code/implement features: Ruby on Rails,
ES6 JavaScript (React & Redux), Webpack, Yarn, Node.js, CSS & SCSS, MySQL, AWS EC2, Git, Pivotal Tracker,
Rspec, CircleCI, Github, Redis, AWS ElastiCache, Google Cloud Print, Twilio, Zendesk,
Sift Science, New Relic, etc.
Education
App Academy (San Francisco, CA)
2014
Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
2006-2010
B. A. Economics, May 2010
McQuaid Jesuit (Rochester, NY)
2002-2006
SAT Score: 2270/2400
Technical Experience
Career: My main areas of expertise are Ruby on Rails, React, and AWS. I think after so many years now, with a little bit of a learning mindset, I **can** code anything pretty well, or help others do the same. I enjoy discussing side projects and business.
Hobbies/Interests/Side Projects
Construction, Music, Volleyball, Podcasts such as "Business Breakdowns" and "Rework", Artificial Intelligence
Wrote www.fillandflush.com - a pure frontend web application that simulates aircraft deplaning
Wrote www.platechase.com - a React web game using Cloudflare Durable Objects
Wrote www.turngenius.com - a small Rails 8 app for hosts and cleaners
Wrote www.parkinglotsimulator.com - a parking lot simulator to measure welfare impact of "handicapped" parking
People I Admire in Technology
David Heinemeier-Hansson, Jason Fried, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel,
Werner Vogels, Brendan Eich, David Sacks, Joe Lonsdale,
Keith Rabois, Balaji Srinivasan, Naval Ravikant, Ray Kurzweil,
Sebastian Thrun, Elon Musk