Experience

Hoop

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineer

  • 2023 - Present

  San Francisco, California, United States



Wefunder

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP Engineering

  • 2020 - 2022

  San Francisco, California, United States Wefunder enables anyone—not just accredited investors—to invest as little as $100 in pre-IPO startups and small businesses. Alongside the CTO, I helped improve the team’s practices, quality, and velocity. - Grew the engineering team from 5 to 25 engineers - Reimagined the company’s hiring process to more effectively recruit, screen, and close candidates - Improved the team’s software development practices - Mentored engineers and team leads - Occasional hands-on work: built… Show more Wefunder enables anyone—not just accredited investors—to invest as little as $100 in pre-IPO startups and small businesses. Alongside the CTO, I helped improve the team’s practices, quality, and velocity. - Grew the engineering team from 5 to 25 engineers - Reimagined the company’s hiring process to more effectively recruit, screen, and close candidates - Improved the team’s software development practices - Mentored engineers and team leads - Occasional hands-on work: built the platform’s stored-value wallet (with ACH transfers) and fraud detection and prevention systems Show less



Casetext

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP Engineering

  • 2016 - 2019

  San Francisco, CA Casetext (YC S13, USV) makes innovative legal research tools for lawyers that make research faster and more accurate using advanced artificial intelligence ("CARA AI"). As the VP of Engineering, I led our user-facing software engineering team though company pivots and major technology changes — with 100% engineer retention. - Helped grow company from zero to millions of revenue - Hired and mentored the engineering team, enabling remarkable individual growth at all levels - Worked… Show more Casetext (YC S13, USV) makes innovative legal research tools for lawyers that make research faster and more accurate using advanced artificial intelligence ("CARA AI"). As the VP of Engineering, I led our user-facing software engineering team though company pivots and major technology changes — with 100% engineer retention. - Helped grow company from zero to millions of revenue - Hired and mentored the engineering team, enabling remarkable individual growth at all levels - Worked closely with executive leadership, product, design, and engineering to set product direction and goals - Helped the team to set architectural and technology strategy - Delivered a complete product rewrite on-time and under budget with zero deployment and transition issues

• Senior Software Engineer

  • 2014 - 2016

  Palo Alto, CA As Senior Full Stack Software Engineer and employee #5, I played a key role in building the company's early product and finding product-market fit. - Full-stack developer: implemented features across the node.js backend and Angular frontend app - Contributed to open source projects and released internally developed libraries as open source - Assisted other team members to help solve challenging problems - Participated in frequent PR code review Promoted to VPE in early… Show more As Senior Full Stack Software Engineer and employee #5, I played a key role in building the company's early product and finding product-market fit. - Full-stack developer: implemented features across the node.js backend and Angular frontend app - Contributed to open source projects and released internally developed libraries as open source - Assisted other team members to help solve challenging problems - Participated in frequent PR code review Promoted to VPE in early 2016; company moved to SF.



Zipscene

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • 2011 - 2014

  Zipscene (acquired by NCR) provided integrated marketing solutions for restaurant brands that brings their POS, online ordering, payment, and loyalty data together to understand, predict, and trigger consumer dining behavior. As an early engineer, I designed and built the platform that enabled the company to deliver brands' customized web presence and ordering experience. - Architected a platform that allowed fast white-label customization for restaurants: branding, web homepage… Show more Zipscene (acquired by NCR) provided integrated marketing solutions for restaurant brands that brings their POS, online ordering, payment, and loyalty data together to understand, predict, and trigger consumer dining behavior. As an early engineer, I designed and built the platform that enabled the company to deliver brands' customized web presence and ordering experience. - Architected a platform that allowed fast white-label customization for restaurants: branding, web homepage, location finder, online ordering, and more for desktop, mobile web, and app. - Built a framework for high-performance SPA web apps with server-side rendering in node.js — years before React, Angular, and webpack existed. - Created hardware solution for online order ticket delivery in kitchens Show less



Vitrue, Inc.

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• User Interface Engineer

  • 2011 - 2011

  Vitrue (acquired by Oracle) built tools that enabled marketers to centrally create, publish, moderate, manage, measure, and report on their social marketing campaigns. As a User Interface Engineer, I built custom apps that integrated with Facebook for major brands.



Admissible

• Founder

  • 2009 - 2011

  Admissible was a bootstrapped startup providing marketing, prospect CRM, and student recruitment event management SaaS to collegiate admissions offices. As the founder of a solo operation, I performed nearly every possible function: - Engineering - built the entire product, front & back - Devops - managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, ELB) - Product/design - defined features & requirements and the UI's visual design - Customer success/support - including leading on-site… Show more Admissible was a bootstrapped startup providing marketing, prospect CRM, and student recruitment event management SaaS to collegiate admissions offices. As the founder of a solo operation, I performed nearly every possible function: - Engineering - built the entire product, front & back - Devops - managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, ELB) - Product/design - defined features & requirements and the UI's visual design - Customer success/support - including leading on-site trainings and addressing inquiries - Sales - prepared materials, pitched, and closed five-figure ARR deals - Accounting - prepared the company's tax returns - Legal - submitted required filings Show less



University of Cincinnati

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Developer

  • 2005 - 2010

  Cincinnati, Ohio, United States The University of Cincinnati is a premiere public research institution that invented co-op education. As a developer in the Office of Admissions, I designed and built software that streamlined the office's operations and provided an improved experience for prospective students. - Led the development of an integrated prospect CRM - Built event management system that allowed prospects to find relevant sessions and tours, register in advance, and check-in onsite - Reduced event… Show more The University of Cincinnati is a premiere public research institution that invented co-op education. As a developer in the Office of Admissions, I designed and built software that streamlined the office's operations and provided an improved experience for prospective students. - Led the development of an integrated prospect CRM - Built event management system that allowed prospects to find relevant sessions and tours, register in advance, and check-in onsite - Reduced event arrival wait time from "line around the building" to 30 seconds - Integrated with disparate and legacy systems to enable accurate data sync Show less