Experience

TaxBit

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Aug 2022 - Present



Design Miami/

• United States
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Platform Engineering

  • Apr 2021 - Jul 2022

  Responsible for end-to-end development of a multivendor marketplace (Web & iOS), including infrastructure, dev tooling, observability, and 3rd party integrations for Design Miami, an event company specializing in high end design and fine art objects. Created and maintained custom integrations with traditional and fine art shippers, traditional and crypto payment providers, tax compliance platforms, and accounting software. Supervised a team of 6 full stack engineers, reviewed code, ensured best practices using NextJS, React, NodeJS, PHP, MySQL and Docker. Supervised operations team members on all aspects of operating the business including seller onboarding, customer support, tax compliance, shipping/fulfillment, and payment processing. Worked with executive team to develop the digital strategy and roadmap planning. Show less



Hearsay Systems

• United States
• Financial Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Sep 2020 - Apr 2021

  Technical lead and manager of 4 engineers on Hearsay Relate, the flagship telephony product for voice and SMS compliance with government and financial industry regulations. Responsible for maintaining API and webhook integrations with multiple VoIP platforms and building new voice and SMS capabilities.Designed post-contact survey feature to increase quality of data in customers' Salesforce, Dynamics and other CRM instances, utilizing AWS DynamoDB, Postgres, Django, and React.Supported the migration of activity record storage from MySQL to AWS DynamoDB to scale services from thousands to millions of records generated daily as we enabled additional messaging channels and signed more customers. Show less

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jan 2018 - Aug 2020

  Led a team of UI engineers on Hearsay’s Advisor Sites product, generating personal websites for thousands of customers based on custom templates. Worked with customers' product and design teams to develop custom themes. Improved use of React+Redux best practices company-wide and ensured quality by creating the Hearsay's first browser testing framework.



Hearst Autos

• United States
• Internet Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer - Consultant

  • Aug 2017 - Dec 2017

  Advised on migration of Car And Driver site from React to Vue/Nuxt static site generation. Removed a major blocker to improving CDN hit ratios of historic content by creating a reusable top navigation Web Component used across several Car and Drivers subdomains. Dynamically integrated the top navigation component through Fastly CDN using custom Varnish and edge-side-includes. Simplified management of content in the top level navigation, saving 1 day of engineering effort weekly. Managed ad content and placements via Google Publisher Tag APIs. Improved SEO and content monetization by increasing the use of semantic HTML5 elements rendered by the CMS. Show less



InRhythm

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Apr 2016 - Dec 2017

  Full stack engineer at InRhythm, an Agile-focused technology consulting and advisory firm based in Midtown Manhattan. Member of the Practice Leadership Team, a group of senior engineers and thought leaders dedicated to fostering the engineering culture. Recruited and interviewed Front End Engineers. Full stack engineer at InRhythm, an Agile-focused technology consulting and advisory firm based in Midtown Manhattan. Member of the Practice Leadership Team, a group of senior engineers and thought leaders dedicated to fostering the engineering culture. Recruited and interviewed Front End Engineers.



Mastercard

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Front End Architect - Consultant

  • Jun 2016 - May 2017

  Led a team of 4 developers to refactor the UI code of Masterpass, an Angular 1 multi-tenant digital payments platform used by millions of users, thousands of merchants and dozens of banks, to prepare for a migration to React.Developed a code generator used internally and by external partners to scaffold web and Android native Masterpass client applications.Reviewed code for 4 development teams across multiple time zones and served as the first point of contact to architecture team for UI features.Investigated, designed and implemented performance improvements: reduced blocking server calls; reduced coupling between state management and presentation layers; improved progressive rendering of the UI; decreased bundle size by 30%. Show less

• Front End Engineer - Consultant

  • Apr 2016 - Jun 2016

  Implemented a Gulp-based build process for a third-party JavaScript library used by merchants in the MasterPass payments ecosystem. Developed and maintained features, implemented performance improvements on a large Angular 1.X application.Liaised between product, development and engineering services teams accelerate deployment of key functionality.



Upraised Learning, PBC

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Full Stack Developer

  • Nov 2015 - Jan 2016

  Implemented the API to manage site content and metadata using JavaScript, SQL, Node, and MySQL/MariaDB. Implemented natural language search using ElasticSearch and full text columns in MySQL/MariaDB. Developed the K-nearest neighbors recommendation algorithm which suggests relevant educational content to users. Automated the collection and curation of 3rd party content using Object-Oriented Python and Beautiful Soup. Implemented the API to manage site content and metadata using JavaScript, SQL, Node, and MySQL/MariaDB. Implemented natural language search using ElasticSearch and full text columns in MySQL/MariaDB. Developed the K-nearest neighbors recommendation algorithm which suggests relevant educational content to users. Automated the collection and curation of 3rd party content using Object-Oriented Python and Beautiful Soup.



New York City Mayor's Office of Management and Budget

• United States
• Government Administration
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Budget Analyst

  • Jul 2013 - Jun 2015

  Provided oversight for the Department of Recreation's $300M personnel budget and multi-billion dollar capital budget. Analyzed new budget requests from the Department, modeled cost-saving measures, and processed requests for bond-financed funding for capital projects in Brooklyn. Introduced automation of common analyses with Python and Excel. Provided oversight for the Department of Recreation's $300M personnel budget and multi-billion dollar capital budget. Analyzed new budget requests from the Department, modeled cost-saving measures, and processed requests for bond-financed funding for capital projects in Brooklyn. Introduced automation of common analyses with Python and Excel.



Breakrs

• Brooklyn, NY

• Developer

  • Jan 2013 - Jul 2013

  UI development including Django partials and custom JavaScript for a music technology startup building a stock market-like experience for music discovery. Automated setup of the local development environment based on Python, Django, and Virtualenv Reviewed financials and business documents for investor consumption. UI development including Django partials and custom JavaScript for a music technology startup building a stock market-like experience for music discovery. Automated setup of the local development environment based on Python, Django, and Virtualenv Reviewed financials and business documents for investor consumption.



Wake Forest University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Dean Of Admissions

  • Jul 2010 - Jan 2013

  Managed merit-based scholarship programs and diversity recruitment. Analyzed recruitment data covering 40,000 annual visitors/applicants with SPSS, Python and Excel. Tested and improved our algorithm for estimating student rank based on real and synthetic data sets. Performed the first analysis of AP vs IB (international baccalaureate) student performance to refine our admissions guidelines and merit scholarship criteria. Analyzed student yield data to optimize our financial aid spending and improve equity in admissions decisions. Read 1,100 applications annually; interviewed 500+ applicants annually; delivered 50-minute information sessions to 250 visitors weekly. Show less