Experience

Titan Advanced Energy Solutions

• United States
• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Software Engineering

  • Nov 2021 - 2 years 2 months

  Salem, Massachusetts, United States Currently building high performance software teams in an effort to accelerate the transition to electrification and decarbonization of the world's energy systems. Core Responsibilities: - Build autonomous highly aligned software teams. - Ensure the systems used to create and deliver our intellectual property, do so reliably, accurately, and affordably. - Mentor junior developers and aspiring leaders. - Design and implement the entire SDLC. - Define software development… Show more Currently building high performance software teams in an effort to accelerate the transition to electrification and decarbonization of the world's energy systems. Core Responsibilities: - Build autonomous highly aligned software teams. - Ensure the systems used to create and deliver our intellectual property, do so reliably, accurately, and affordably. - Mentor junior developers and aspiring leaders. - Design and implement the entire SDLC. - Define software development best practices and provide examples to others - Conduct technical spikes to de-risk impactful decisions - Reduce technical debt across all relevant software systems Specific Achievements: - Led a transition from bespoke application architecture to highly standardized tools and frameworks - Implemented AWS Architectural best practices throughout the entire data and software stack - Led the successful rollout of company wide package and dependency management solutions - Improved test coverage and advocated for the liberal use of mocks across all major software system allowing teams to evolve software without being blocked by one another. - Codified all infrastructure using AWS CDK and enabled its deployment via github actions - Currently leading an effort to improve the way we create and deliver our algorithms to our customers Show less



Music Xray

• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • Apr 2014 - 9 years 9 months

  Greater Boston Area Deeply involved in every aspect of delivering a working SaaS product and platform to our customers in the music industry. Design, discuss, implement, repeat. Core Responsibilities: - Designed and implement CI / CD pipeline. - Coached and drove outcomes from multiple direct reports. - Developed domain model for complex Ruby on Rails application. - Scaled AWS resources as necessary to meet increasing traffic demands. - Responded to operational issues in a timely… Show more Deeply involved in every aspect of delivering a working SaaS product and platform to our customers in the music industry. Design, discuss, implement, repeat. Core Responsibilities: - Designed and implement CI / CD pipeline. - Coached and drove outcomes from multiple direct reports. - Developed domain model for complex Ruby on Rails application. - Scaled AWS resources as necessary to meet increasing traffic demands. - Responded to operational issues in a timely manner. - Aligned product roadmap with technical capabilities. - Built re-usable frontend components. - Deliver sonic similarity algorithms via highly tuned neural network - Monitored and optimized a highly concurrent background job processing infrastructure along with backing data storage systems. Specific Achievements: - Converted research university Audio processing application to a highly scalable restful API - Implemented commerce features to drive revenue goals. - Executed a successful pivot from the original business model - Implemented CRM features that allowed multi-channel two way communication between providers and consumers. - Led platform driven marketing initiatives leading to increases in revenue - Created gamified fan listening experience - Scaled infrastructure using elastically scalable services provided by AWS Show less



Agero, Inc.

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr Manager of software Architecture

  • Sep 2019 - Oct 2021

  Medford, Massachusetts Continuously improved the productivity and knowledge base of Agero’s talented IT organization. My team set a new standard for excellence and drove improvements across key metrics including, application uptime, mean time to recovery, and team developer productivity. Core Responsibilities: - Led, mentored, and coached a team of highly capable Software, Application, and Cloud Architects. - Provided candid feedback to team members and demanded a high standard of everyone on the… Show more Continuously improved the productivity and knowledge base of Agero’s talented IT organization. My team set a new standard for excellence and drove improvements across key metrics including, application uptime, mean time to recovery, and team developer productivity. Core Responsibilities: - Led, mentored, and coached a team of highly capable Software, Application, and Cloud Architects. - Provided candid feedback to team members and demanded a high standard of everyone on the team. - Led initiatives to create standard templates for the most commonly used Architectural patterns company wide - Drove adoption and provided tooling to allow for secure resource isolation on AWS. - Wrote technical articles and provided technical thought leadership to the entire organization. - Incubated new software teams - Drove alignment between technical and nontechnical teams to more rapidly achieve desired product outcomes. - Provide technical training opportunities to the entire software organization. Specific Achievements: - Led the creation, implementation, and adoption of standardized authentication and authorization flows. - Implemented and drove adoption of event based Architectures written on top of AWS Event Bridge - Led the design and implementation of a full-stack server-less framework built on top of AWS lambda, DynamoDb, and Gatsby, which was used by product teams to accelerate delivery times. - Delivered a P1 Alexa skill for Roadside in under 3 months - Implemented and drove adoption of company wide web hook handling system - Drove adoption of standardized logging, metric, and reporting to enable company wide systems monitoring - Led an initiative to deliver a developer portal that allowed easy onboarding and delivered centralized documentation to software teams. - Delivered a working Recall management software tool

• Machine Learning Architect

  • Nov 2018 - Oct 2020

  Medford, Ma Worked as part of the Architecture team to help define, implement, and support scalable cloud native solutions to a variety of machine learning and data operations problems. Core responsibilities: - Develop, maintain key pieces infrastructure related to machine learning and scalable API's - Conduct technical evaluations via design spikes - Produce coherent, useful documentation for a range of technical users - Implement DevSecOps best practices at all levels of the… Show more Worked as part of the Architecture team to help define, implement, and support scalable cloud native solutions to a variety of machine learning and data operations problems. Core responsibilities: - Develop, maintain key pieces infrastructure related to machine learning and scalable API's - Conduct technical evaluations via design spikes - Produce coherent, useful documentation for a range of technical users - Implement DevSecOps best practices at all levels of the software stack Specific Achievements: - Enabled a transition from Databricks to Apache spark running on AWS EMR resulting in $100,000/year savings. - Led the evaluation of several cloud native data warehouse solutions as alternatives to a highly customized in-house and expensive to operate Sql Server. - Led a shared tooling initiative responsible for standardizing several commonly used tools and practices and drove their adoption company wide resulting in economies of scale and improved standardization across software teams. - Built and oversaw the adoption of the first Multi-Region Active-Active Restful API in the company's history, setting a new standard for always on service delivery. - Mentored and guided my fellow teammates and supported several cross functional product teams.



FirehoseOnline

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet

• Mentor

  • Apr 2015 - Oct 2019

  1-2 hours a week I help aspiring students learn the ins and outs of Ruby, Rails and how to navigate the software engineering employment market. The bootcamp style course focuses on getting students up and running as quickly as possible with web programming.



ecoATM Gazelle

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Software Engineer Team Lead

  • Apr 2017 - Oct 2018

  Greater Boston Area Led a team of engineers to deliver highly scalable e-commerce solutions for the cell phone recycling industry. Core Responsibilities: - Working with management to build technical requirements for various software projects. - Increasing overall team productivity through re-tooling efforts - Writing core software components and demonstrating new software architecture paradigms for junior developers Specific achievements: - Improved caching expiration system such that… Show more Led a team of engineers to deliver highly scalable e-commerce solutions for the cell phone recycling industry. Core Responsibilities: - Working with management to build technical requirements for various software projects. - Increasing overall team productivity through re-tooling efforts - Writing core software components and demonstrating new software architecture paradigms for junior developers Specific achievements: - Improved caching expiration system such that content would be purged from cache within seconds rather than days while simultaneously increasing average time content remained in the cache. - Gradually converted separate consumer-facing mobile and desktop website to a modern responsive alternative. - Lead initiative to use GraphQL for federating back-end services and contributed to front end React based re-tooling. - Integrated custom content management system. - Lead serverless initiative for handling event data as it relates to e-commerce systems. - Created numerous architecture diagrams, project specs, and supporting documentation, across a wide array of projects. - Enforce code quality and test coverage standard with automated tooling as well as thorough code review process. Show less



Exoprise Systems

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Software Architect

  • Dec 2013 - Mar 2014

  Waltham, ma Worked tirelessly to deliver a highly scalable, SaaS based, monitoring and alerting solution used to monitor other SaaS platforms. Core responsibilities include: - Codifying operations using chef. - Code quality and test coverage improvements. - Modernization of front-end architecture. - Defining and implementing time series data storage architecture and best practices. - General product improvements.

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Apr 2013 - Dec 2013

  waltham, ma Wrote software for cloud monitoring. Web / Consumer facing product development.



Binocular Inc

• CTO / partner

  • Sep 2006 - Dec 2013

  Binocular Inc is a web development company I helped found in 2006. Core responsibilities include: - Technical project management. - Developing custom software solutions for clients with a wide range of needs. - Create and support internal projects and tooling. - Hire and mentor junior developers.



Music Xray

• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • Sep 2008 - Jun 2013

  Core responsibilities include: - Propose and implement CI / CD pipeline. - Coach multiple remote software developers. - Develop domain model for complex Ruby on Rails application. - Scale AWS resources as necessary to meet increasing traffic demands. - Respond to operational issues in a timely manner. - Align product roadmap with technical capabilities.



Mimoco, Inc.

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jun 2007 - Dec 2009

  Core responsibilities include: - Build and maintain custom order management software in C# using the .net framework. - Deployed a custom integrated site using drupal and magento using amazon ec2 with elastic load balancing and autoscaling. - Created custom ruby program for loading 32 flash drives simultaneously.



CDDM UMass

• Research assistant

  • 2004 - 2006

  Conducted research on distributed sensor networks while managing a 90 node server farm consisting of both Intel and Sparc architectures and worked to make them useable as a Grid (think "cloud" before the term was coined)