Experience

Reactive Streaming

• Founder, CEO

  • Nov 2019 - Present

  Greater New York City Area Reactive allows merchants to sell more, faster, with our onsite live selling tools. Designed to create successful launches, drops, and promotions; Reactive's interactive features allow merchants to create engaging, shoppable, customer experiences that dramatically increase sales.



HQ Trivia

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineering Lead

  • May 2018 - Nov 2019

  Greater New York City Area I managed and developed HQ's systems for running our live game shows. • Led engineering efforts to build and maintain systems that run interactive game shows for millions of concurrent users. • Led the product and project management of foundational systems, ensuring the needs of stakeholders and end-users were exceeded. • Was 1 of a 2 member platform team that focused on scaling HQ's infrastructure. • Core contributor to HQ's data infrastructure and business intelligence tools.… Show more I managed and developed HQ's systems for running our live game shows. • Led engineering efforts to build and maintain systems that run interactive game shows for millions of concurrent users. • Led the product and project management of foundational systems, ensuring the needs of stakeholders and end-users were exceeded. • Was 1 of a 2 member platform team that focused on scaling HQ's infrastructure. • Core contributor to HQ's data infrastructure and business intelligence tools. • Established team standards and processes. Show less



Giphy

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Project Lead

  • Aug 2016 - May 2018

  Greater New York City Area I worked on giphy.com, GIPHY's backend infrastructure, and GIPHY's data pipelines. I built data centric products from scratch, cornerstone infrastructure services, and the UI for their flagship products. • Led engineering efforts to build the brains behind GIPHY's advertising platform. • Led engineering efforts to build a viral content service that identified organically trending content by location across GIPHY's entire network in real-time. • Mentored engineers in creating… Show more I worked on giphy.com, GIPHY's backend infrastructure, and GIPHY's data pipelines. I built data centric products from scratch, cornerstone infrastructure services, and the UI for their flagship products. • Led engineering efforts to build the brains behind GIPHY's advertising platform. • Led engineering efforts to build a viral content service that identified organically trending content by location across GIPHY's entire network in real-time. • Mentored engineers in creating scalable systems, processes, and working in Django and React. • Established best practice engineering standards, processes, and technical architecture. Python, JavaScript, Scala Django, React, Spark Kubernetes, gRPC, REST, Postgres, Redis, VCL, Docker, EMR, RedShift, Luigi, Kinesis, Terraform Show less



ustwo

• United Kingdom
• Design
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Engineering Lead

  • Jun 2015 - Aug 2016

  Greater New York City Area Focusing on web development and virtual reality, I led engineering efforts to make impactful digital products with startups, internal ventures, and companies like Google.



Fueled

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Aug 2014 - May 2015

  Greater New York City Area Worked with founders to create new startups. Concepted products from scratch. Led engineering efforts, carefully scoped each product's MVP, chose its technical architecture, and developed the application from 0 to 1. • Managed a team of 4 developers. • Established best practice engineering standards, processes, and technical architecture. • Built 15+ cutting edge mobile and web applications.

• Full Stack Engineer

  • Sep 2013 - Jul 2014

  Greater New York City Area • Developed the front and backends of beautiful and and intuitive web and iOS applications. • Consulted with clients and transformed, managed, and enhanced their ideas into lean and cutting edge agile development projects. html, CSS, Sass, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Angular.js, Backbone.js Python, Django, Node.js, Express, Grunt.js, Heroku



The Initiative for Public Choice and Market Process

• Researcher, Chinese IPOs on US Exchanges

  • Sep 2011 - Sep 2013

  Charleston, South Carolina Area • Used Python as a data analysis platform to create a quantitative IPO pricing model, collected data through programming autonomous data mining programs, and performed the econometric analysis for the basis of the study. • Researched the quantitative differences between domestic and Chinese IPOs offered in the US and the link between those Chinese firms and financial



AGCONTI Consulting

• Full Stack Developer, Consultant

  • Sep 2011 - Sep 2013

  Greater New York City Area • Clients from the Finance, Health Care, and Technology Industries. • Projects focus on data analytics, creating pricing models, and visualizing analysis results into easy to understand and intuitive user experiences. html, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Python, Django, and Git.



Polaris Investment Partners

• United States
• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Financial Analyst

  • Jan 2012 - Dec 2012

  • Created a quantitative commodity trader investing strategy backtester, an automated hurdle rate checker, and the programs and procedures to automate due diligence fillings in Excel VBA. • Conducted fund analysis and individual investment analysis of potential hedge funds and commodity traders for review by senior staff and performed back office functions.



Martial Arts Club at the College of Charleston

• Founder, President

  • Sep 2010 - May 2012

  Founded and secured funding for the club, equipment donations, taught members, and grew club membership from 3 members to 35.