Experience

Kinship

• United States
• Pet Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Director of Engineering

  • Oct 2022 - Present

  New York, United States Leading Engineering for Adopt-A-Pet.com



Muze

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP Engineering

  • Feb 2021 - May 2022

  New York, United States Hands-on role leading backend development for Muze, a Gen-Z-focused creative messaging app.



Apiari

• United States
• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder and CTO

  • Sep 2018 - Feb 2021

  New York, New York Built entire website and chatbot interface for on demand childcare platform. Worked closely with CEO and COO to fundraise and iterate on product/market fit. The scalable backend was built using 100% Serverless technologies.



Roomi

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Of Engineering

  • May 2017 - Oct 2018

  Greater New York City Area Oversaw engineering for a shared housing platform, including a website and iOS and Android apps. Scaled the team from 12 to 20 engineers. Reorganized team structure to take advantage of its distributed nature to align engineers along functional lines. Hands on contributions with technologies including React, Node.js, and MongoDB.



Coffee Meets Bagel

• United States
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Nov 2012 - Jul 2016

  San Francisco Bay Area First technical employee. Built the website and mobile apps and scaled it to handle millions of active users. Grew engineering team from just myself to a team of 15 engineers. Architected backend systems to handle thousands of requests per second and kept it up while we were featured on Shark Tank. Built the initial iOS app when we decided to pivot to mobile. Was the primary liaison between Engineering and the other parts of the business, including Product, Customer Service, Marketing, and our… Show more First technical employee. Built the website and mobile apps and scaled it to handle millions of active users. Grew engineering team from just myself to a team of 15 engineers. Architected backend systems to handle thousands of requests per second and kept it up while we were featured on Shark Tank. Built the initial iOS app when we decided to pivot to mobile. Was the primary liaison between Engineering and the other parts of the business, including Product, Customer Service, Marketing, and our CEO. Show less



Pheast

• Founder and CEO

  • May 2011 - Oct 2012

  San Francisco Bay Area Started my own startup, a website envisioned as a "Github for recipes" where users could easily take an existing recipe, add their own twist, and publish their own variant. The long term goal was to create collections of similar recipes and learn readers' preferences to suggest the variant that was right for them.



Yelp

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Development Engineer

  • Mar 2010 - Apr 2011

  Built the first version of Yelp Deals, a daily deals platform that was a major revenue initiative for the company. Led the early stages of a rearchitecture of the backend billing software that was designed to position the company to transition to a service oriented architecture.



Amazon

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Development Manager

  • Oct 2008 - Jan 2010

  Greater Seattle Area Promoted to manager of the team for which I had been a software developer for the previous three years. Grew the team from six to twelve engineers. Oversaw a complete rearchitecture that increased the software's throughput by 10X and positioned the software as a generic workflow solution to be used by many teams throughout the company. Worked closely with other leaders within the company to architect solutions to company initiatives and to debug complex, cross-functional problems.

• Software Development Engineer

  • Aug 2005 - Sep 2008

  Greater Seattle Area Developed software workflow engine that managed post-order processing for $10 billion in orders annually. Designed and implement changes for scaling and architectural improvements, as well as requirements for large merchants, such as Target and Marks and Spencer, to process orders on Amazon’s platform. Represented the team in many high profile new business initiatives such as convenience store payment in Japan, Jersey Island shipping to mainland Great Britain, improvements to the shipment… Show more Developed software workflow engine that managed post-order processing for $10 billion in orders annually. Designed and implement changes for scaling and architectural improvements, as well as requirements for large merchants, such as Target and Marks and Spencer, to process orders on Amazon’s platform. Represented the team in many high profile new business initiatives such as convenience store payment in Japan, Jersey Island shipping to mainland Great Britain, improvements to the shipment confirmation email that is sent to millions of customers per day, and ensuring release-day promised delivery of Harry Potter 7.



Intel Corporation

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Validation Engineer

  • Aug 2003 - Jul 2004

  Hudson, MA On the validation team testing the instruction fetch and issue queue of the core of an Itanium® processor. Projects included writing and executing assembly tests for a pre-silicon simulation, debugging RTL code, writing testing software, and designing coverage monitors. Reported 37 bugs to architecture team. (Two 3-4 month internships).