Experience

Maven Clinic

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  - Engineering Pod Lead for teams of 3-15, handling agile processes, contributing to product briefs and cross-pod documentation while also acting as an individual contributor. - Most notably leading the Assessment redesign project, a project with huge impact for data collection at Maven, building Maven's first piece of client facing service-based architecture and integrating new external technologies such FHIR and Contentful. - Part of a major expansion to Maven Wallet, building a… Show more - Engineering Pod Lead for teams of 3-15, handling agile processes, contributing to product briefs and cross-pod documentation while also acting as an individual contributor. - Most notably leading the Assessment redesign project, a project with huge impact for data collection at Maven, building Maven's first piece of client facing service-based architecture and integrating new external technologies such FHIR and Contentful. - Part of a major expansion to Maven Wallet, building a payments module facing members, employers, and clinics for the Managed Benefits project. This included a new service to abstract the integration of payment processors (starting with Stripe) and collaboration across three separate engineering teams while also juggling complex product requirements as the project's scope expanded. - Six months as co-lead of the Backend Discipline Guild. Pushed code standard improvements across the company with proposal documents, tickets, and template changes. Presented on new architecture and 3rd party tools. - Founder of the Documentation and Dashboards cross-team organization, bringing leadership and engineers together regularly to talk about metrics, documentation, and decision making tools such as Maven's Request For Comments process.

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2019 - Oct 2020

  -- Designed and built the entire backend for Maven Wallet's launch, creating Maven's entire initial fertility benefit reimbursement feature. This included rewriting Maven's entire Stripe integration to add flexibility in how we give and receive payments and expanding client success tools for Care Advocates to manage uploaded reimbursement receipts. -- Optimized and expanded the appointment booking data backend to enable new features for web and mobile apps, including handling complicated… Show more -- Designed and built the entire backend for Maven Wallet's launch, creating Maven's entire initial fertility benefit reimbursement feature. This included rewriting Maven's entire Stripe integration to add flexibility in how we give and receive payments and expanding client success tools for Care Advocates to manage uploaded reimbursement receipts. -- Optimized and expanded the appointment booking data backend to enable new features for web and mobile apps, including handling complicated date/time edge cases. -- Rebuilt Dosespot integration, switching from an old SOAP api to their up-to-date RESTful api. -- Expanded documentation to help Maven scale during growth hiring as well as improving remote work communication. Helped migrate existing documents to Notion.



Shapeways

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Oct 2017 - Jun 2019

  -- All initial development of the Design with Shapeways site, including working with product and marketing to determine features and launch dates as well as building the backend to manage incoming projects. Launched the first fully functional Design with Shapeways site one week after project start, and followed it up with a custom ecommerce integration and regular feature set expansions. -- Worked to move file storage for all Shapeways code to an internally designed flexible and specialized… Show more -- All initial development of the Design with Shapeways site, including working with product and marketing to determine features and launch dates as well as building the backend to manage incoming projects. Launched the first fully functional Design with Shapeways site one week after project start, and followed it up with a custom ecommerce integration and regular feature set expansions. -- Worked to move file storage for all Shapeways code to an internally designed flexible and specialized storage platform. -- Improved PHP testing for the Shapeways codebase, including writing guides for other developers and giving regular updates to team leads. Notable Achievements: ● Created a new source of business for Shapeways through the Design with Shapeways project, which was mentioned on sites including TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and 3DPrint.com. Show less



Kognito

• United States
• E-Learning Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Web Developer

  • Mar 2014 - Oct 2017

  -- Responsible for all client portals, internal tools, and the company API. -- Modernizing a decade's worth of legacy code, including adding tests and documentation, while also developing a constant stream of new features, all the way from the request through the design, implementation, and QA process. -- Engaged in moving all internal tools to a Laravel / Vue.js based technology stack. -- Connected systems to numerous external services including Salesforce.com, AICC and Scorm-based… Show more -- Responsible for all client portals, internal tools, and the company API. -- Modernizing a decade's worth of legacy code, including adding tests and documentation, while also developing a constant stream of new features, all the way from the request through the design, implementation, and QA process. -- Engaged in moving all internal tools to a Laravel / Vue.js based technology stack. -- Connected systems to numerous external services including Salesforce.com, AICC and Scorm-based learning management systems, and business reporting tools. -- Successfully applied the Agile process in a non-standard Agile environment, including multiple shareholders across several departments. Communicated technical details to all levels of the company. Notable Achievements: ● Enabled Kognito's first cross-client users, opening up new sales opportunities. ● Designed and implemented a Salesforce APEX/SOQL project which vastly increased the data available to client services and sales, with well communicated visuals. ● Designed and built RESTful tools for multistep MySQL data migrations, enabling a profitable compromise between business needs, client needs, and moving to clean data structures. ● More than doubled the speed of internal report generation while also massively improving data consistency and speeding up turnaround time on new reports. ● Query and code optimizations that dropped hardware requirements by 50% during peak usage. Show less



Freelance

• Web Developer

  • Oct 2012 - Jan 2014

  Chicago, IL -- Created website and wordpress designs for small businesses. -- Created digital banners and print materials including an expo banner for DigitalGroundUp.com



Mcgathey Commodities

• United States
• Financial Services

• Broker's Assistant

  • Jan 2013 - Mar 2013

  -- Compiled and communicated data to brokers and clients. -- Managed communications between my broker and an outside consultant web designer. -- recommended social media strategies.



American Museum of Natural History

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 700 & Above Employee

• Developer and Curatorial Assistant

  • 2009 - 2010

  ● Created a custom content management system for the storage of spectra and mineral characterizations of the Herschel Collection. Included commenting, searching, and security features. -- Assisted with the running of the 73rd meeting of the Meteoritical Society. -- Researched an unusually large spinel from the meteorite Allende.



The End Records

• Intern in Online Sales

  • Jun 2008 - Aug 2008

  Brooklyn, NY -- Designed and maintained a new eBay front for the company, including answering customer inquiries and setting up stock emails for sales and other events. -- Set speed records for listing new items online on Amazon, upping monthly take by over $1,000.