Engineering Manager

• Apr 2021 - Present

Senior Software Engineer

• Jun 2020 - Apr 2021

Lead Member Of Technical Staff

• Sep 2018 - Jun 2020

Technical lead and scrum master for a number of engineering teams focused on customer facing features.Spearheaded the adoption of scrum that led to more predictable, higher quality releases and overall developer happiness.The primary application is Ruby on Rails with a MySQL datastore and downstream services use Kinesis, ElasticSearch, Graylog, Redis and Redshift.Product Manager and Engineer for the 2015 Desk.com Hackathon winning team.

Senior Member Of Technical Staff

• Mar 2016 - Sep 2018

Member Of Technical Staff

• Jun 2012 - Mar 2016

CTO and Co-Founder

• Nov 2011 - Jul 2018

Family First Media is an interactive, online media company. The flagship property gives thousands of children the opportunity to break into the entertainment industry every month. While chatprints.com introduces a novel way to purchase photo prints from within Instagram. Family First Media grew to 940k members with $1m annual revenue before acquisition. Led the execution of the company's technology strategies. Family First Media is an interactive, online media company. The flagship property gives thousands of children the opportunity to break into the entertainment industry every month. While chatprints.com introduces a novel way to purchase photo prints from within Instagram. Family First Media grew to 940k members with $1m annual revenue before acquisition. Led the execution of the company's technology strategies.

Technology Director

• May 2011 - Oct 2011

Responsible for technology strategy and recruiting for new R&D initiatives. Migrated legacy production environments to a more efficient data center reducing costs and maintenance. Led the teams that built out web properties to facilitate lead generation and delivery. Acquired by Impact Digital Group Technologies used: Ruby, Rails, MSSQL, and MySQL. Responsible for technology strategy and recruiting for new R&D initiatives. Migrated legacy production environments to a more efficient data center reducing costs and maintenance. Led the teams that built out web properties to facilitate lead generation and delivery. Acquired by Impact Digital Group Technologies used: Ruby, Rails, MSSQL, and MySQL.

Director of Technology

• Apr 2008 - May 2011

Parent Media Group is a network of family-focused sites offering contests, promotions, deals, photos, articles, blogs, and forums. Responsible for technology strategy and architecture. Virtualized the existing data center which reduced costs and introduced redundancy and scalable flexibility. Transitioned new development from PHP to Ruby on Rails. Introduced agile development concepts and design patterns that reduced overall development time. Developed a custom lightweight development framework to allow new websites to be created quickly and easily maintained. Web properties were built with PHP or Ruby on Rails with MySQL datastores. Show less

Software Engineer / Database Administrator

• Oct 2003 - Apr 2008

Lead development and architecture for max.volchok.com, an IT service management package, sold as a service and as licensed, installable software. The software service runs on Apache on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using PHP and MySQL. Lead development and architecture for max.volchok.com, an IT service management package, sold as a service and as licensed, installable software. The software service runs on Apache on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using PHP and MySQL.

Consultant

• Dec 2000 - Dec 2002

Provided technical consultation and troubleshooting for clients ranging from workflow optimization to hardware and software purchases. Provided technical consultation and troubleshooting for clients ranging from workflow optimization to hardware and software purchases.

Assistant Systems Administrator

• Jul 1998 - Nov 2000

Assisted in the administration of over 2,000 client accounts, and 500 hosted websites utilizing Apache, Sendmail, Real Media, and Darwin Streaming Server. Providing high-level technical support. Taught introductory HTML, JavaScript and Flash classes to small groups of clients. Assisted in the administration of over 2,000 client accounts, and 500 hosted websites utilizing Apache, Sendmail, Real Media, and Darwin Streaming Server. Providing high-level technical support. Taught introductory HTML, JavaScript and Flash classes to small groups of clients.