Experience

Getwork

• India
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP of Engineering

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States o First hire at Getwork, hired team o Led separation of LinkUp/Getwork software - Modeled business process; collaborated with stakeholders, identified key metrics, and weak spots. ▪ Developed high level architecture plan to guide new team and external resources (Loosely coupled, testable features, system agnostic) ▪ Designed, planned, and executed migration of Getwork applications from onprem data center to AWS infrastructure ▪ Simplified microservice architecture to reflect… Show more o First hire at Getwork, hired team o Led separation of LinkUp/Getwork software - Modeled business process; collaborated with stakeholders, identified key metrics, and weak spots. ▪ Developed high level architecture plan to guide new team and external resources (Loosely coupled, testable features, system agnostic) ▪ Designed, planned, and executed migration of Getwork applications from onprem data center to AWS infrastructure ▪ Simplified microservice architecture to reflect business domains ▪ Updated docker environment for local development and images to modern system/versions ▪ Designed K8 infrastructure running on Openshift cluster with Devops engineers ▪ Automated deployment pipelines using best practices with Devops engineer o Created Code health scores and SLAs per applications - MTTR (Meantime to Recover), Lead time for changes, Testability metrics o Managed hardware resources/spend with 3rd party o Managed external resources with three vendors (At one point about 10 contractors; Developers / Devops / Designer / Project Manager) o Job feed ingestion - Architected, cross-functional collaboration to design and build critical new software to replace legacy system o Consumes jobs from APIs and XML feeds, ingests data pipeline adding geolocation, company, and other meta data per job o Built custom XML Parser that could decompress and read a 200GB XML feed in less than 5 seconds for internal UI o ETL service - Created data pipelines using K8 cronjobs / AWS Glue/Athena / Tableau /ElasticSearch . Feeds real time insights for delivery / sales / client teams. Enabled alerting on key metrics anomalies. o Cost reduction - reduce AWS and Elasticsearch spend by 50% o Led team onboarding and knowledge sharing sessions o Served on DEI Board at Adzuna o Bot Detection Service ▪ Replace asynchronous detection with real time solution in Go ▪ Blocks bots / spam from reaching client site ▪ Performs concurrent API calls to 3rd party bot checkers Show less



LinkUp Job Search Engine

• VP of Engineering

  • Feb 2021 - Jun 2021

  Transitional role as LinkUp created new company Getwork



InboxDollars

• Senior Web Development Manager

  • Sep 2014 - Feb 2021

  Major accomplishments o Managing/hiring/coaching team of senior developers o Maturing coding standards and optimizations of 15 year codebase that supports 3 million members o Cross functional collaboration with external clients, business information, user acquisition, and product teams o Architected and developed Producer / Consumer infrastructure ▪ Using RabbitMQ / Redis / ELK ▪ Improved member’s experience by offloading queries/heavy lifting ▪ Led to much faster… Show more Major accomplishments o Managing/hiring/coaching team of senior developers o Maturing coding standards and optimizations of 15 year codebase that supports 3 million members o Cross functional collaboration with external clients, business information, user acquisition, and product teams o Architected and developed Producer / Consumer infrastructure ▪ Using RabbitMQ / Redis / ELK ▪ Improved member’s experience by offloading queries/heavy lifting ▪ Led to much faster data analysis for Business Information team (real time) o Led ELK stack integration and adoption. Began populating business critical data to elastic, setup dashboards for different business areas, created multiple Machine Learning jobs to watch for fraud. o Technology Evangelist ▪ Conference presenter at DDDExplore 2019 and 2018, MinneBar 2016, OpenWest - Salt Lake City 2016, MadisonPHP 2016, WordCamp 2013 ▪ Involved with broader MN tech community (MinneDemo, Beta.MN) o DevOps integrations (Automated testing, setup build tool, code reviews, continuous integration) o Implemented technical debt reduction and continuous learning programs for developers o R&D for new technologies/products ▪ Prototyping of Single Purpose Apps using ReactJS/React Native ▪ Scaled Market Research channel using Elastic Search, RabbitMQ, Redis ▪ Implementing Domain Driven Design principles o Diagramming critical workflows and business rules o Led eight new client integrations which increased revenue $2million/month o Designing algorithms to increase retention and revenue o Member of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Board Show less



The Dolan Company

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Web Development Manager

  • Feb 2013 - Sep 2014

• Product Development Manager

  • 2011 - Sep 2014

• Lead Web Developer

  • Feb 2009 - Sep 2011

  ColdFusion, Tech Lead/Expert, MSSQL, Proj Mgmt, Flex, Flash, Perl, PHP, mySQL, team of 8.

• Senior Web Applications Developer

  • Feb 2008 - Feb 2009

• Web Applications Developer

  • Feb 2006 - Feb 2008

  ColdFusion, Flash, MS-SQL



Weber Shandwick

• United States
• Public Relations and Communications Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Web Relations Specialist

  • 2003 - 2006

  Flash Developer, Actionscript, ColdFusion, MSSQL



ImageTrend

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Flash Developer

  • 2001 - 2003

  Flash, Actionscript, ColdFusion, MSSQL, XML, Graphic Designer