Experienced Software Engineer seeking compelling teammates and projects.
Excited by the opportunity presented by technology to improve lives.
Eager to help organizations achieve excellence as a teammate and leader.
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)
2017-2018, 2019-2024 (Los Angeles, CA)
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.
Chief Technology Officer
CTRL Collective
2018-2019 (Los Angeles, CA)
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.
Software Engineer (consultant)
Various
(Various Dates)
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 have pursued a number of cool side projects which I enjoy discussing at length. I enjoy talking about business generally.
Hobbies/Interests
Construction, Music, Volleyball, Podcasts such as "Business Breakdowns" and "Rework", Artificial Intelligence
Recent Side Project: wrote www.fillandflush.com - a pure frontend web application that simulates aircraft deplaning
People I Admire in Technology
David Heinemeier-Hansson, Jason Fried, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel,
Werner Vogels, Martin Fowler, Brendan Eich, David Sacks
Keith Rabois, Balaji Srinivasan, Naval Ravikant, Ray Kurzweil,
Sebastian Thrun, Elon Musk