Experience

HealthEx

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founding Principal Engineer

  • Aug 2022 - Present



Clipboard Health

• United States
• Software Development
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Consultant Architect

  • Feb 2022 - Jul 2022

  Providing advice and coaching to a rapidly growing startup in a number of areas, including microservices, unit testing, JavaScript backend technologies, deployment patterns, and Agile processes. Driving architectural consensus across a highly distributed remote team. Personally involved in building code templates for backend microservices that embody best practices and patterns. Providing advice and coaching to a rapidly growing startup in a number of areas, including microservices, unit testing, JavaScript backend technologies, deployment patterns, and Agile processes. Driving architectural consensus across a highly distributed remote team. Personally involved in building code templates for backend microservices that embody best practices and patterns.



BlueJeans by Verizon

• United States
• Software Development
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Distinguished Engineer/Architect

  • Apr 2020 - Feb 2022

  Company acquired by Verizon in May 2020.Continued majority of previous responsibilities across entire Client Team in addition to new responsibilities.Became a key reviewer of all major projects across the entire company, including chairing company-wide Architecture Review Board.Designed client-side adoption of an SFU video architecture. Heavily involved in the design of the next-generation middleware architecture. Strong voice in pushing for transition to microservices, including writing several example services personally.Lead architect for BlueJeans Telehealth, including adoption of healthcare standards such as SMART on FHIR. Show less

• Principal Engineer, Client Team

  • Dec 2017 - Apr 2020

  Broad responsibilities as the senior technical leader and architect across entire Client Team, encompassing Mac, Windows, Linux, Browser, iOS, Android, and other clients.Created shared client code frameworks for both Swift and TypeScript, following a consistent design, enabling most BlueJeans clients to be built on a common base. Established a company-wide standard for web application development, utilizing React, MobX, Jest, Webpack, TypeScript, and MVVM. Designed and led rewrite of both the BlueJeans Browser client and BlueJeans iOS client, using shared code and new architecture standards. Designed and led the creation of BlueJeans Linux Native Client, utilizing Electron, shared code, and web app standards.Provided technical leadership and/or project management for a large number of smaller efforts across the entire organization. Represented client team architectural requirements to other groups in the company. Served on company-wide Architecture Review Board. Show less

• Tech Lead, Mac Native Client

  • Jul 2016 - Dec 2017

  Led a 3-person team to build a new native MacOS client for BlueJeans. Rewrote majority of BlueJeans functionality in just 6 months of work. New client resulted in significantly higher customer satisfaction scores.Learned and became a strong Swift developer in just a few months.Applied MVVM and reactive programming to create a homegrown framework that served as the foundation of the application’s architecture.Established high technical bar for code reviews and unit testing, with 95% coverage achieved. Show less

• Tech Lead/Manager, Web Meetings

  • Jun 2015 - Jul 2016

  Promoted to Technical Lead with specific responsibility for BlueJeans’ in-meeting experience, the company’s most visible piece of software, with hundreds of thousands of users per day.Directed 4-person team’s day-to-day efforts, including working with stakeholders to prioritize.Developed a consistent application architecture based on MVVM and reactive programming.Oversaw repeated iterations to improve application UX and measured results with Mixpanel analytics.Took on additional responsibility as the team’s people manager in January 2016. Show less

• Senior Software Engineer, Web Applications

  • Mar 2013 - Jun 2015

  Worked across all BlueJeans web applications, utilizing a mix of server-side Django Python and client-side JQuery/Backbone JavaScript.Conceived of and led a transition to a completely client-side JavaScript based site, resulting in the almost complete elimination of Django and Python.Led numerous refactoring efforts to correct “startup code” which was pervasive across company.Helped the company grow up by providing a strong voice for consistent process in software engineering, testing, and project management. Show less



Cisco

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Engineer, SP TelePresence

  • Mar 2012 - Mar 2013

  Leadership role formalized as member of Software Architecture team, overseeing code design across the entire product. Direct ownership of multiple critical modules in the product.Worked mostly in the backend, redesigning much of the code into clean, modular subsystems that can be maintained and tested in isolation. Included efforts to move to a message-driven architecture.Helped launch an initiative to create the next-generation version of the product which combined multiple Cisco technologies and supported a wide range of scale from a single small box to many high-powered servers. Show less

• Software Engineer, SP TelePresence

  • Sep 2009 - Mar 2012

  Leader on a large team developing a service provider-oriented platform for providing a Cisco TelePresence based video conferencing service. Worked at all layers of the application, includingUI, API, data persistence, and call routing, utilizing Java and open-source Java frameworks.Used Agile/Scrum development methodologies and helped define the Agile process.Evangelist for clean code and good design through unit testing, creating reusable frameworks,maximizing existing framework usage, creating extensible architectures, and static analysis.Helped design and implement both the web UI and the SOAP APIs available to external clients. Show less



Adobe

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineering Intern

  • Jun 2007 - Aug 2007

  Worked on prototyping a new product for Adobe's hosted office tools platform, Acrobat.com. Worked as a member of a three-person team to investigate the right feature set. Product eventually became Acrobat.com Tables. Worked on prototyping a new product for Adobe's hosted office tools platform, Acrobat.com. Worked as a member of a three-person team to investigate the right feature set. Product eventually became Acrobat.com Tables.