Experience

Next Opportunity

• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Oct 2022 - 1 year 3 months

  San Francisco Bay Area



Artium

• Brazil
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Software Engineer

  • Jan 2022 - Oct 2022

  San Francisco Bay Area Full-time software development at a boutique software consultancy. Project work included a CQRS / event-sourced system in Typescript; an envelope encryption system; a DORA-metrics inspired web application; and a web3 payments platform. Multiple projects with Node and Ruby backends, and Typescript, React, Redux front ends.



Honeycomb.io

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • 2020 - 2021

  San Francisco Bay Area Led team of 8 fullstack engineers responsible for company’s observability product • Hired and mentored developers by developing coding and testing patterns, coaching on best practices, and fostering an environment of cooperation, learning, and accountability. • Team’s work included RESTful API development, integrations with third parties (Stripe, Avalara, Okta); and optimizations which allowed for 4x customer growth.



Self-employed

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager

  • Jan 2020 - Aug 2020

  San Francisco Bay Area Project manager for construction project on a 100+ year old building. Work included foundation repair, structural strengthening, replacement of electrical, plumbing, and HVAC systems, and down-to-the-studs interior renovation.



Lever

• United Arab Emirates
• Building Materials
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Engineering Manager

  • Feb 2019 - Nov 2019

  San Francisco Bay Area As a senior manager, I was responsible for hiring, retention, productivity, and growth of engineers on the product engineering and framework teams (2 team leads, 6 engineers). Helped hire VP Engineering as well as staff for new Toronto office. Applications written in JavaScript and Typescript on open source DerbyJS /Racer/ShareDB stack, backed by MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Redis, deployed on AWS using Docker and Kubernetes.



Fauna Inc.

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

• Director Of Engineering

  • 2017 - 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area • Reported to CEO and was responsible for Engineering (10+ engineers) plus IT and Support functions. • Managed distributed team across three continents. Created engineering ladder; co-created performance review process. • Technology: Scala deployed via ansible, docker, and Kubernetes to AWS and GCP replicas on four continents. Open-source drivers written in multiple languages (Ruby, Go, Java, Scala, Python, C#, JS).

• Engineering Manager

  • 2017 - 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area • Led team of engineers whose responsibilities were to design, develop, and operationalize a globally consistent, transactional distributed database. • Reported to CEO. Proactively developed working relationships with Product, Marketing, Support, Finance, and Sales. • Doubled size of team while reducing ramp time for new engineers by 50%. • Led development of distributed verification and fault injection system (similar to Netflix’s Chaos Monkey). • Introduced and improved on… Show more • Led team of engineers whose responsibilities were to design, develop, and operationalize a globally consistent, transactional distributed database. • Reported to CEO. Proactively developed working relationships with Product, Marketing, Support, Finance, and Sales. • Doubled size of team while reducing ramp time for new engineers by 50%. • Led development of distributed verification and fault injection system (similar to Netflix’s Chaos Monkey). • Introduced and improved on processes such as: goal setting; performance reviews; planning process. In March 2018 promoted to Director of Engineering.



Startup Genome (formerly Compass research)

• Consultant

  • Jan 2017 - Feb 2017

  San Francisco Bay Area Assisted with the creation of Startup Genome's 2017 Global Startup Ecosystem Report. Rolled up my sleeves to do whatever necessary to help the team meet their deadline, from mentoring junior members of team, to using python and pandas on data collected from partners and from 10,000+ startups from around the world.



The World

• Writing and Editing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Year of Traveling

  • 2016 - 2016

  Over the course of the year, I traveled on three continents and an assortment of islands. I bought a car and backpacked solo around New Zealand for several months; spent three weeks chaperoning an alternative-spring-break college meditation trip to India; volunteered with a rural electrification program, also in India; spent a month+ volunteering on an ashram on Bali, did many backpacking trips and a 10-day silent meditation retreat in California, and generally spent as many days as possible… Show more Over the course of the year, I traveled on three continents and an assortment of islands. I bought a car and backpacked solo around New Zealand for several months; spent three weeks chaperoning an alternative-spring-break college meditation trip to India; volunteered with a rural electrification program, also in India; spent a month+ volunteering on an ashram on Bali, did many backpacking trips and a 10-day silent meditation retreat in California, and generally spent as many days as possible stretching body, mind, and soul. Show less



Andela

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

• Technical Director

  • 2015 - 2015

  San Francisco Bay Area • Acted as EM, PM, team lead, and customer liaison for key enterprise customers in Africa and North America. • Led development teams through multiple strategic engagements, exceeding customer expectations and opening opportunities for larger placements for Andela developers. • Evaluated and improved engineers’ technical and soft skills. Supplied feedback into training program. * Technologies: Ruby, Node.js, Python, AWS, MongoDB, MEAN Stack, Rails, Django, React. • Traveled to… Show more • Acted as EM, PM, team lead, and customer liaison for key enterprise customers in Africa and North America. • Led development teams through multiple strategic engagements, exceeding customer expectations and opening opportunities for larger placements for Andela developers. • Evaluated and improved engineers’ technical and soft skills. Supplied feedback into training program. * Technologies: Ruby, Node.js, Python, AWS, MongoDB, MEAN Stack, Rails, Django, React. • Traveled to Lagos, Nigeria for six weeks to present to local staff and developers (80+) and provide training. • Worked with my boss to help locate and train my replacement, ensuring a smooth transition of responsibilities. Working 10+ hour time difference to the East was hard on my health and relationships. Show less



HashFast Technologies LLC

• VP Engineering

  • Jul 2013 - May 2014

  San Francisco Bay Area • Brought a 28nm custom ASIC to market in less than five months, vs industry standard of 12+. • Despite a superior product, HashFast eventually filed for bankruptcy. • Solved unique engineering challenges caused by the extreme high-power needs of bitcoin mining. • My responsibilities spanned engineering (technical leadership, recruiting, and outsourcing), supply chain management, sales and marketing, and setting up the production assembly line.



Engine Yard

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

• Director of Engineering

  • Jan 2011 - Jun 2013

  SF and PDX Director of Engineering (2012 to 2013) • Prioritized and significantly improved stability and performance of platform, after gathering consensus and enthusiastic support from Product, Sales, and Support. • Increased revenue 60% in one year to >$20M. • Led both San Francisco and Portland platform development teams, 10+ reports. • Directly responsible for flagship PaaS product roadmap and execution. Engineering Manager (2011 to 2012) • Opened new remote engineering office… Show more Director of Engineering (2012 to 2013) • Prioritized and significantly improved stability and performance of platform, after gathering consensus and enthusiastic support from Product, Sales, and Support. • Increased revenue 60% in one year to >$20M. • Led both San Francisco and Portland platform development teams, 10+ reports. • Directly responsible for flagship PaaS product roadmap and execution. Engineering Manager (2011 to 2012) • Opened new remote engineering office for a leading cloud PaaS. Hired and trained six new employees. • Set and led collaborative, high-performance development culture. Coordinated with other engineering teams, and with sales, marketing, and finance. • Garnered praise from HQ for team’s productivity and quality of work. • Presented in Spain at Conferencia Rails 2011: “Humpty Dumpty: When the Cloud Falls Down”. Software Engineer (2011) • Full stack Ruby developer on platform team, flagged for promotion within six months of joining company. Show less



Kismet World Wide Consulting

• Technology, Information and Internet

• Software Developer

  • Jul 2009 - Jan 2011

  One of two lead developers for WasteNot, a green, crowd-sourced, world-changing iPhone app that lets people share tips and information about how to live more lightly on this planet.



Grockit

• India
• E-Learning Providers

• Senior Software Developer

  • Dec 2008 - Aug 2009

  Ruby on Rails development as part of a small (10-person) ed-tech engineering team. Techniques used included TDD, pair programming, continuous integration, iterative development.



The Climate Corporation

• Canada
• Renewables & Environment

• Senior Software Developer

  • Jul 2008 - Dec 2008

  Full-stack developer for a complex distributed system that generated real-time online quotes for hedging weather risk. Used Java, Ruby on Rails, and agile software development practices. Improved the workflow for the company's partner channel, reducing the time to sign each new contract by more than 95% (previously 24 to 72 hours down to an average of <60 minutes): essential in the time-critical derivatives business.



Google

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Developer

  • May 2006 - Jul 2008

  Mountain View, CA • Worked with Pivotal Labs and Google developers on several internal applications, including an enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) system. Pair programmed with Google developers 35+ hours/week. • Deployed to Google’s London office to improve collaboration between Mountain View and London teams. • Improved communication and guided the team to save three weeks, and successfully meet their deadline. • Mentored programmers in extreme programming and test-driven… Show more • Worked with Pivotal Labs and Google developers on several internal applications, including an enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) system. Pair programmed with Google developers 35+ hours/week. • Deployed to Google’s London office to improve collaboration between Mountain View and London teams. • Improved communication and guided the team to save three weeks, and successfully meet their deadline. • Mentored programmers in extreme programming and test-driven development • Coded in Java, Python, and JS, using IntelliJ, Spring, Struts, Webwork, Hibernate, Prototype and JQuery, tested using JSUnit. Show less



Pivotal Labs Inc.

• Agile Software Consultant

  • Mar 2006 - Jul 2008

  Help clients develop their enterprise web applications as part of an XP team, usually consisting of both Pivotal consultant/coaches/developers and the clients' own developers. At the Pivotal Labs offices, developed three commercial Ruby on Rails websites for various clients. On-site at a large Bay Area internet search firm, worked on several internal projects including an enterprise-scale CRM web application.



Xythos Corporation

• Software Developer

  • Mar 2003 - Dec 2005

  Server-side Java development, on Xythos' WebDAV-compliant content management server. Areas of expertise stretched from the database layer and optimizing SQL queries on several databases; through file, user, and session management; to creating JSR-168 portlets and a SSO solution for their portal offering.



Dust Networks

• Wireless Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Nov 2002 - Feb 2003

  Part-time contract position. Front-end developer for Dust Networks, an early IoT startup being incubated out of UC Berkeley.



Texar Software

• United States
• Information Technology & Services

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2000 - Jul 2001

  Java and C software developer on a multi-platform enterprise application, esp. at database and network layers.