Experience

Bottleneck

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founding Engineer

  • Jul 2023 - 6 months

  • Extensive tech debt refactors across the full stack to significantly enhance DevX and reduce bugs. For example, eliminating props drilling by introducing Context patterns, inverting dependencies by utilizing event propagation, replacing incorrect hooks utilization, etc. • Implement generalized frontend component pattern for utilizing URL queries, and fixing sprawling debounce issues resulting in laggy renders or API flooding. • Implement backend data model for data change ledger, and… Show more • Extensive tech debt refactors across the full stack to significantly enhance DevX and reduce bugs. For example, eliminating props drilling by introducing Context patterns, inverting dependencies by utilizing event propagation, replacing incorrect hooks utilization, etc. • Implement generalized frontend component pattern for utilizing URL queries, and fixing sprawling debounce issues resulting in laggy renders or API flooding. • Implement backend data model for data change ledger, and frontend presentation of changes across time for users to views • Help team enhance workflows across the board: moved team to simple "sprint" planning system; migrated all team processes from Google Drive to Notion, creating full document processes as needed for retros and so forth; championing basic customer support ticketing system. • Lead the data migration of a large, multimillion dollar client, merging and massaging two separate, undocument data systems (large raw CSV exports; and Microsoft SQL Server) into our platform. Show less



FontPeek

• Technology, Information and Internet

• Founder

  • Jan 2020 - Dec 2023

  • Build and run FontPeek; profitable business serving ~100 customers and 10s of thousands of requests daily. • Build entire Frontend and Backend in React, Go, C++, and several microservices communicating via GraphQL, RPC, or Cron/Files. • Create entire home-office infrastructure with physical Dell R440 Servers linked to Gigabit Internet and manually configured static IP Addresses behind SonicWall. • Create entire DevOps infrastructure using combination of bare-metal Kubernetes /… Show more • Build and run FontPeek; profitable business serving ~100 customers and 10s of thousands of requests daily. • Build entire Frontend and Backend in React, Go, C++, and several microservices communicating via GraphQL, RPC, or Cron/Files. • Create entire home-office infrastructure with physical Dell R440 Servers linked to Gigabit Internet and manually configured static IP Addresses behind SonicWall. • Create entire DevOps infrastructure using combination of bare-metal Kubernetes / Minikube; Docker; and GCP for Database Management • Provide support to customers • Hire and coordinate designers for new versions and iterations of the product based on customer feedback Show less



Squadformers

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

• Director Of Engineering

  • Feb 2022 - Mar 2023

  • Weigh build vs. buy decisions based on strategic analysis of timelines and goals. • IC and Lead on multiple teams serving partners including Tesorio; Dome; Ferry; Flaviar. • Grow and promote team members to higher seniority. • Coordinate technical proposals, project architectures, estimation planning. • Establish engineering culture; technical priorities; communication standards. • Collaborate with CEO and VP of Engineering to resolve organizational growing pains. •… Show more • Weigh build vs. buy decisions based on strategic analysis of timelines and goals. • IC and Lead on multiple teams serving partners including Tesorio; Dome; Ferry; Flaviar. • Grow and promote team members to higher seniority. • Coordinate technical proposals, project architectures, estimation planning. • Establish engineering culture; technical priorities; communication standards. • Collaborate with CEO and VP of Engineering to resolve organizational growing pains. • Technologies: Numerous. Including: TypeScript; Node.js; Postgres; React; React Native; Next.js; Nest.js.

• Engineering Manager

  • Sep 2021 - Feb 2022

  • IC and Lead for team assembled to serve partner: Tesorio. • Coordinate integration with two external teams and our internal team of four people. • Primary work in React 16+, TypeScript, Python, php. • Lead technical discovery, prioritization, and estimation. • Technologies: TypeScript; React; Python; Django.



Everest

• United States
• Design
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Engineering

  • Jan 2021 - Sep 2021

  • Coordinate with client Director and VPs, providing channeling information to CEO as needed • Help orchestrate technical sunsetting of obsolete infrastructure / products in favor of entire new banking backend and frontend • Create technical proposal for entire stack including frontend (React), backend (Node.js, GraphQL, Postgres, Redis). • Coordinate with client technical committee to defend proposal and push through new technologies • Coordinate ~8 engineers across three different… Show more • Coordinate with client Director and VPs, providing channeling information to CEO as needed • Help orchestrate technical sunsetting of obsolete infrastructure / products in favor of entire new banking backend and frontend • Create technical proposal for entire stack including frontend (React), backend (Node.js, GraphQL, Postgres, Redis). • Coordinate with client technical committee to defend proposal and push through new technologies • Coordinate ~8 engineers across three different projects. Show less



Slytrunk

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • May 2019 - Jan 2021

  Specializing in the frontend, I've worked on the official NFL Fantasy mobile app which serves millions of people, and played a key role in completely relaunching both Relevent Sports Group / International Champions Cup websites (and native apps) on a custom-tailored private label CMS under an ambitious timeframe to a successful end.



Karat

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Mentor Captain

  • Apr 2019 - Jan 2021

  Helping to train, guide, and shape the community of interviews as we scale by an order of magnitude in both headcount and volume.

• Interviewer Mentor

  • Jan 2019 - Apr 2019

• Senior Interviewer

  • Feb 2018 - Jan 2019

  Remote

• Expert Interviewer

  • Nov 2017 - Feb 2018



Google

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Web Solutions Engineer, Revenue Acceleration, Google Cloud / Google Ads

  • Feb 2017 - Mar 2018

  Mountain View, CA Cloud Global Operations Engineering. My role was as the lead developer on a complex Chrome extension written in React with Redux state management which interfaced with a Python backend. I would also occasionally update the backend or write minor SQL queries as needed. This application was successfully scaled from a few test users to ~85% of cloud sales reps. I left Google on good terms to start my own business.



VYNYL

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Aug 2015 - Jan 2017

  Boise, Idaho Area VYNYL is a web development agency that takes on contracts from multiple clients. As such, I built out a variety of products, typically in a web stack of PHP Laravel or Node.js (Express or Hapi) on the backend, Postgres database, Redis caching, and Angular for the frontend, along with Gulp and Webpack build systems, along with Jenkins for build pipelines. We followed the latest code design standards and cutting edge technology of the time.