Experience

Merchbar

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

• CTO

  • Nov 2017 - Present

• Engineer

  • Sep 2015 - Nov 2017



CrossFit, LLC

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Sep 2014 - Sep 2015

  • Led a team of engineers from junior to senior level. • Built an internal recruitment/hiring process. Grew team from 4 to 7 engineers in first 3 months. • Cultivated engineering culture and processes, such as proposing and getting team buy-in on code reviews, branching and release strategy. Negotiated with others in Org for time for monthly team hackathons. • Acted as project manager/tech lead for groups of 1-4 engineers on projects including: a CrossFit team competition website… Show more • Led a team of engineers from junior to senior level. • Built an internal recruitment/hiring process. Grew team from 4 to 7 engineers in first 3 months. • Cultivated engineering culture and processes, such as proposing and getting team buy-in on code reviews, branching and release strategy. Negotiated with others in Org for time for monthly team hackathons. • Acted as project manager/tech lead for groups of 1-4 engineers on projects including: a CrossFit team competition website, creation of internal CMS and new front-page for crossfit.com, an iOS app to score tests given during seminars held weekly around the world, a map with locations of 13,000 CrossFit gyms and upcoming events. • Worked with department heads/executives as engineering representative during product development. Listened to their ideas, goals, and desired timelines, and from that input, created and proposed projects our team could develop to meet those needs.

• Lead Software Engineer

  • Oct 2011 - Sep 2014

  • Designed and implemented the CrossFit Games competition website. In 2012, 3 weeks after launch, 70,000 users created accounts and paid an entry fee. In the 2015 season, 270,000 competed through website. • Scaled system to support over 100 million page views during the month-long 2015 season. At peak, system supported over 5,000 requests per second. • Worked with the customer support team to create backend tools, allowing a small team to support 270,000 users making payments and… Show more • Designed and implemented the CrossFit Games competition website. In 2012, 3 weeks after launch, 70,000 users created accounts and paid an entry fee. In the 2015 season, 270,000 competed through website. • Scaled system to support over 100 million page views during the month-long 2015 season. At peak, system supported over 5,000 requests per second. • Worked with the customer support team to create backend tools, allowing a small team to support 270,000 users making payments and recording weekly scores during our 5-week competition season. • Developed a system for CrossFit’s charitable foundation to run worldwide fundraisers. • Converted the CrossFit Games and charitable systems into a framework to support 20+ new sites/applications in a 3 year period • Built an API to allow use of CrossFit’s login for 3rd party event management system • Architected AWS cloud infrastructure, worked with DevOps to implement



Tripadvisor

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jun 2008 - Oct 2011

  • Full-stack engineer, worked on logged-in/member systems. Created implementation plans, gathered feedback and ideas from coworkers, and presented plans for review. Coded, performed QA and wrote automated tests. • Helped rewrite login system. Replaced dozens of different implementations and allowed all logins to use one shared framework and code path. • Wrote scripts to work on live database of 20+ million members. • Rewrote member profile area of the site from our old… Show more • Full-stack engineer, worked on logged-in/member systems. Created implementation plans, gathered feedback and ideas from coworkers, and presented plans for review. Coded, performed QA and wrote automated tests. • Helped rewrite login system. Replaced dozens of different implementations and allowed all logins to use one shared framework and code path. • Wrote scripts to work on live database of 20+ million members. • Rewrote member profile area of the site from our old codebase/technologies to our current code-base. Reimplemented backend code, replaced a proprietary JavaScript library with open source. • Overhauled TripAdvisor’s first iPhone app. Developed the server-side logic to provide a data feed of restaurants for app Show less • Full-stack engineer, worked on logged-in/member systems. Created implementation plans, gathered feedback and ideas from coworkers, and presented plans for review. Coded, performed QA and wrote automated tests. • Helped rewrite login system. Replaced dozens of different implementations and allowed all logins to use one shared framework and code path. • Wrote scripts to work on live database of 20+ million members. • Rewrote member profile area of the site from our old… Show more • Full-stack engineer, worked on logged-in/member systems. Created implementation plans, gathered feedback and ideas from coworkers, and presented plans for review. Coded, performed QA and wrote automated tests. • Helped rewrite login system. Replaced dozens of different implementations and allowed all logins to use one shared framework and code path. • Wrote scripts to work on live database of 20+ million members. • Rewrote member profile area of the site from our old codebase/technologies to our current code-base. Reimplemented backend code, replaced a proprietary JavaScript library with open source. • Overhauled TripAdvisor’s first iPhone app. Developed the server-side logic to provide a data feed of restaurants for app Show less