Experience

KOHO

• Canada
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Staff Software Developer

  • Aug 2023 - Present

  - Senior Staff Developer on the back-end platform team - Cloud infrastructure design and implementation using Terraform - Distributed, containerized application design + implementation on AWS - Mentor, educate engineers across the organization in order to ensure best practices are followed and scalable software is built in a maintainable way - Review and participate in all high level engineering initiatives - Formulate and help plan department level OKRs in order to drive… Show more - Senior Staff Developer on the back-end platform team - Cloud infrastructure design and implementation using Terraform - Distributed, containerized application design + implementation on AWS - Mentor, educate engineers across the organization in order to ensure best practices are followed and scalable software is built in a maintainable way - Review and participate in all high level engineering initiatives - Formulate and help plan department level OKRs in order to drive engineering and business initiatives - Review and commit Go application code, Python application code, Terraform IaC for AWS cloud infrastructure - PoC and document new technologies before wider adoption by the greater engineering organization - Assist all teams within the platform organization in order to drive velocity for projects - Led multiple projects, including: 1. Migration of the entire company’s messaging system, which involved a zero downtime migration to internal RabbitMQ infrastructure while processing hundreds of messages per second across multiple systems 2. Architected and implemented a distributed AI/ML application which enabled internal users to process data in a vector database and utilize while querying multiple different LLM models using Langchain, OpenAI, and AWS Bedrock 3. Architected and implemented initial proof of concept for PACT tests within CI/CD pipelines between client and service packages written in Go

• Staff Software Developer

  • Oct 2022 - Aug 2023

  Staff Developer on the back-end platform team



Highlight

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founding Software Engineer

  • Nov 2021 - Apr 2022

  San Francisco Bay Area Infrastructure, Web2, Web3 (MATIC) Including: - Designing and implementing AWS infrastructure across the stack using Terraform - Creating new micro services from scratch to support product features - Writing application logic in Typescript which interacts with both traditional infrastructure and blockchain - CI/CD pipeline setup, front end bundle deployment, and app Docker image generation - Participating in design and implementation of web2 and web3 logic as we scale



Factor

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Mar 2021 - Nov 2021

  Lead software engineering organization, engineering process, engineering organization growth strategy, application design, database design, technology tooling strategy, infrastructure ecosystem design, and technical implementation

• Software Architect

  • Feb 2019 - Mar 2021

  Lead high level technology decision making and implementation. Create and implement engineering organization process and strategy in order to address business and engineering needs in an efficient and scalable manner. Some examples are: - Sprint structure - Code review and deployment patterns - Feature development from idea inception to implementation, including research and POCs - Automated testing strategy and implementation Design and implement all back end infrastructure and… Show more Lead high level technology decision making and implementation. Create and implement engineering organization process and strategy in order to address business and engineering needs in an efficient and scalable manner. Some examples are: - Sprint structure - Code review and deployment patterns - Feature development from idea inception to implementation, including research and POCs - Automated testing strategy and implementation Design and implement all back end infrastructure and code for the product and all of its dependencies including: - Asset building and CDN setup - DNS management - Database modeling and implementation - Code architecture and implementation on the client side and server side - Architecture and Implementation of cache (Redis), database (RDS), queue (SQS), S3, email (SES), Lambda, ElasticBeanstalk, EC2, push notifications, Docker container clusters and registries (ECS), filesystems, and other resources - Continuous Deployment pipelines using AWS CodePipeline to build containerized applications

• Contractor

  • Jul 2018 - Jan 2019

  Architect and implement back end infrastructure and code for software app MVP



Dictionary.com

• United States
• Online Audio and Video Media
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Nov 2017 - Jan 2019

  Oakland, CA Technical lead on the back end platform team Owner of data ingestion pipelines written in Ruby and Node.js Owner of CI/CD pipelines within Gitlab which handle changes to application and infrastructure Design and implement all APIs written in Node.js using a microservice architecture Responsible for all CDN configurations set up in Akamai, Fastly, and CloudFront Design and implement MongoDB databases hosted on AWS (MongoDB Cloud Atlas) Design and implement infrastructure on AWS… Show more Technical lead on the back end platform team Owner of data ingestion pipelines written in Ruby and Node.js Owner of CI/CD pipelines within Gitlab which handle changes to application and infrastructure Design and implement all APIs written in Node.js using a microservice architecture Responsible for all CDN configurations set up in Akamai, Fastly, and CloudFront Design and implement MongoDB databases hosted on AWS (MongoDB Cloud Atlas) Design and implement infrastructure on AWS (ElasticSearch, Elastic Beanstalk applications, Docker container registries, Lambdas, etc.) Show less



Chewse

• United States
• Food & Beverages
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • May 2017 - Nov 2017

  San Francisco, CA Full-stack engineer working with Django, PostgreSQL, Vue.js, and more.



Wayfair

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer III

  • Mar 2017 - Apr 2017

  Boston, MA Technical lead on Storefront's Visual Search team Programmed front and back end for MVP of Wayfair Visual Search Worked with PHP, MSSQL, JavaScript, and many other technologies

• Software Engineer II

  • Aug 2015 - Mar 2017

  Boston, MA

• Software Engineer I

  • Nov 2014 - Aug 2015

  Boston, MA



Colgate University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Computer Science Tutor

  • Sep 2011 - May 2014

  Hamilton, NY Tutor Labs for students learning Python and Java Tutor during open lab sessions for higher level classes



ITG

• United States
• Financial Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Trade Desk Admin Intern

  • Jun 2013 - Aug 2013

  New York, NY



AmerisourceBergen

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Solutions Architecture Intern

  • Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  Chesterbrook, PA