Experience

The New York Times

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Staff Software Engineer

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  New York, United States

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Sep 2019 - Mar 2023

• Software Engineer

  • Sep 2017 - Sep 2019

  Greater New York City Area Developing and scaling custom services to manage and modernize the entire digital history of the New York Times. Leveraging advanced Python 2 and 3 libraries and Google Cloud compute resources to extract, refine and convert millions of legacy articles to contemporary formats. Also responsible for the stewardship of the Google Protobuf based data schema used to transfer events and data elements throughout the backend ecosystem. Providing unique Library Science and Information Architecture… Show more Developing and scaling custom services to manage and modernize the entire digital history of the New York Times. Leveraging advanced Python 2 and 3 libraries and Google Cloud compute resources to extract, refine and convert millions of legacy articles to contemporary formats. Also responsible for the stewardship of the Google Protobuf based data schema used to transfer events and data elements throughout the backend ecosystem. Providing unique Library Science and Information Architecture principles as well as cutting edge JVM-based tools to provide a standardized and developer-friendly data environment. Personally migrating legacy data center local and early-stage cloud systems to a Google Kubernetes Engine environment.



Sprout Social, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Site Reliability Engineer

  • Jan 2016 - Sep 2017

  Chicago Building and operating distributed services and systems to maintain a secure, reliable and high performing infrastructure to run the components of the Sprout Social data ecosystem. Administer a fleet of hundreds of virtual and physical servers and services in multiple data centers using chef, terraform and custom-built tools.



Elevate

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Application Developer

  • Sep 2013 - Jan 2016

  Greater Chicago Area Developed, deployed and maintained custom ETL tools to facilitate critical data exchanges between customers and organization’s SalesForce CMS database using Python, Flask, PostgreSQL and Amazon EC2 instances. Developed responsive HTML5 front end and REST-based back end for efficient and secure mobile data collection application using Python, Flask, PostgreSQL and Twitter Bootstrap. Designed and lead the implementation of prototype data warehouse for organization data storage and analysis

• Data Analyst

  • Jul 2010 - Sep 2013

  Greater Chicago Area Management and analysis of building energy efficiency data for large urban sustainability-focused non-profit organization. Design and implementation of software tools to improve organizational efficiency.



University of Michigan Hatcher Graduate Library

• Reference Staff

  • Aug 2008 - May 2010

  Ann Arbor, MI Staff central information desk at university’s largest research library, assist 10-15 patrons with in-person, phone and IM queries. Interact with library users to determine specific information needs and quickly match needs to relevant resources. Trained on library catalog platform, third-party research databases and library professional practices



American Planning Association

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Library Intern

  • May 2009 - Aug 2009

  Greater Chicago Area Cataloged and abstracted 3 years of professional and research periodicals from 4000+ volume specialized library of urban planning-related materials. Worked with a team of librarians and planners to develop a framework and gather foundation content for the Planner's Bibliography, a long-term project to supply essential materials to planners, officials and citizens. Created software to analyze the text of APA advisory service documents to discover frequently used web resources, used by supervisor… Show more Cataloged and abstracted 3 years of professional and research periodicals from 4000+ volume specialized library of urban planning-related materials. Worked with a team of librarians and planners to develop a framework and gather foundation content for the Planner's Bibliography, a long-term project to supply essential materials to planners, officials and citizens. Created software to analyze the text of APA advisory service documents to discover frequently used web resources, used by supervisor to justify continued subscription to municipal code databases. Show less



National Community Tax Coalition

• National Survey Intern

  • May 2009 - Jul 2009

  Chicago Planned and executed 3-month nationwide survey of tax preparing organizations that serve low-income communities. Identified and engaged 400 key non-profit staff members through phone and email to present survey. Reached 160% of survey response goal, gathering data to be used in research and state and federal lobbying efforts. Managed and improved process for sanitization, reconciliation, input, reporting and archiving of survey data. Designed and documented data tracking systems in Excel… Show more Planned and executed 3-month nationwide survey of tax preparing organizations that serve low-income communities. Identified and engaged 400 key non-profit staff members through phone and email to present survey. Reached 160% of survey response goal, gathering data to be used in research and state and federal lobbying efforts. Managed and improved process for sanitization, reconciliation, input, reporting and archiving of survey data. Designed and documented data tracking systems in Excel, Access and online for future survey interns. Show less



Fastweb

• Research Associate

  • Feb 2006 - Aug 2008

  Chicago Identified and presented financial aid awards to an audience of two million members. Worked closely with a team of five to add and update 2,550 scholarship entries per week. Initiated and oversaw the development of department-wide evaluation criteria to ensure consistency and quality of postings. Appointed as lead contact for customer service inquiries and communications with financial aid sponsors.