Experience

Beeswax (Acquired by Comcast)

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

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Dec 2016 - Present

  New York I joined as the 8th engineer at Beeswax. I've spent the last 9 months as the software engineering lead on an ML team. Spent the previous 2.5 years working on the core serving infrastructure, which handles over 100 billion requests per day. Most of my work has been in Python and C++. I have: - Designed and built a set of ML products for our customers, starting with very simple MVPs and iterating quickly based on customer feedback. This involved working closely with our data science team… Show more I joined as the 8th engineer at Beeswax. I've spent the last 9 months as the software engineering lead on an ML team. Spent the previous 2.5 years working on the core serving infrastructure, which handles over 100 billion requests per day. Most of my work has been in Python and C++. I have: - Designed and built a set of ML products for our customers, starting with very simple MVPs and iterating quickly based on customer feedback. This involved working closely with our data science team, productionizing ML models, helping to implement jobs in PySpark, and building scalable, high performance features around our ML outputs. - Designed and implemented many very high performance features and services in our serving infrastructure. - Discovered and implemented cost savings that improved company wide margins by 5-10%. Show less



Quickbox Storage

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet

• Founder

  • Jul 2014 - Feb 2016

  San Francisco, CA Started a box based physical storage business with on-demand pickups. Built a web app backend in Rails, including customer analytics, complex pricing logic, and payment processing. Hired and managed two employees and set up storage/delivery operation in Boulder.



Crowdhub (summer project)

• Software Engineer (in lieu of summer internship)

  • Jun 2013 - Sep 2013

  Boulder, CO In the summer before my senior year, I built the backend of an eCommerce and content site using Rails. I implemented user tracking for affiliate payments, a blog, and a store, and I managed one full-time employee.



Self Employed (Contract Development)

• Software Engineer (in lieu of summer internship)

  • Jun 2012 - Sep 2012

  San Francisco, CA Did web development work as a contractor with one other developer, using Rails, jQuery, and third party libraries. I focused on the backend and systems design work. We built prototype web apps for two clients. One had us build a sports social network, and the other had us build a job hunting platform (like Hired.com) structured like a dating site.



Techstars Startup Digest

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer / Intern

  • May 2011 - Sep 2011

  Palo Alto, CA As sole engineer, designed and developed a platform for readers to apply to startup jobs with Python and Django, creating the company’s first revenue source.