Chief Technology Officer

• May 2021 - Present

Software Developer

• Nov 2015 - May 2021

VP Engineering

• Jun 2015 - Oct 2015

• Joined an early stage startup on a mission to help solve the pains of manufacturing hardware.• Readied a new web application for a pilot geared towards validating the market reaction to our solution.• Structured the product development by building a roadmap and a backlog. • Defined the processes used by the team.• Introduced tools to allow for efficient customer communications.• As with most startups, took many roles like software developer, architect, designer and product manager.Technologies: Backbone, React, Less, Bootstrap, Gulp, jQuery, RequireJS, Browserify, Heroku, Redis, PostgreSQL, AWS (S3, SQS, CloudFront), PHP, Doctrine, Jira, BitBucket, Codeship

Software Development Team Lead

• Jul 2013 - May 2015

• Learned how to build a new software product from scratch.• Lifted a new big data product with search engine, web application and browser extension.• Managed a complex architecture built on Node.js, Backbone.js, ElasticSearch and Hadoop.• Built and led a new development team, along with supporting processes and methodologies.• Successfully scaled an agile team using Scrum up to 15 developers.• Responsible for the hire of new team members.• Owned the deployment, operations and support of the product.• Automated testing of the stack across multiple browsers in both unit tests and BDDs.• Automated the building of the product through the use of continuous integration (CI) in TeamCity.• Automated the deployment of the product by using Salt in conjunction with the CI tool.• Engaged directly with customers to refine the product vision and backlog, as well as to provide support.Technologies: Backbone, Node.js, Express, Hadoop, HBase, Less, Bootstrap, Salt, AWS (S3, EC2), TeamCity, Grunt, Karma, Mocha, Git Stash, Jira

Development Team Lead

• Feb 2012 - Jul 2013

• Modernized an ASP.net web application.• Managed a small team of developers on a mature product.• Transitioned the team from iterative waterfall to Scrum.• Went from having a recurring 5 weeks system test period to almost nothing, by using test automation. • Implemented continuous integration on the product by introducing TeamCity, which then was used company-wide.• Championed the move from SVN to Git.Technologies: C#, ASP.net MVC, NHibernate, SQL Server, TeamCity, Bootstrap, Less, JavascriptMVC, Jira, Git Stash, StructureMap, Python, Nunit, BDD

Senior Software Developper

• Jul 2011 - Feb 2012

• Led the in-housing of development on an acquired web application built with asp.net and C#.• Delivered several important customer projects, including key projects for the largest customer of the company.• Modernized the application by introducing dependency injection (via structuremap) and an ORM (NHibernate).• Refactored large portions of the code base to improve maintainability and readability.• Modularized the web application by extracting components and refactoring the structure of the code.• Simplified the architecture of the web application by deprecating multiple components.Technologies: C#, ASP.net MVC, NHibernate, SQL Server, Bootstrap, Less, JavascriptMVC, Jira, Subversion, StructureMap, Python, ReSharper, Nunit, BDD

Software Developper

• Dec 2008 - Jul 2011

• Ramped up on three distinct technology stacks (Objective-C, Python, C#) to become a leading contributor.• Learned web development by working on two distinct products, in C# and Python.• Learned desktop application programming by working on a Mac antivirus using Objective-C and Cocoa. • Volunteered to work in improving acquired products with legacy code and no documentation.Technologies: Objective-C, Cocoa, OS X, Python, SQLAlchemy, Bash, C#, ASP.net, SQL Server, Jira, Subversion, CVS

Software Developer

• May 2005 - Nov 2008

As a first real developer job after graduating, I learned a lot at Tektronix. Starting as an intern and then a full time developer, I became proficient in C++ by coding VoIP test equipment that would gather and report call quality metrics. It was also an amazing opportunity to put my math skills to good use, as I did a lot of audio signal processing. For example, I was able to optimize performance of part of the pipeline by 100x, switching from naive convolutions to optimized filters.In terms of coding, I learned asynchronous programming, multiple protocols (MGCP, RTP, RTCP, H.323,etc), but most important of all, I learned to develop on a real product, with real users, in a context where there is a large legacy code base. From this, I learned the value and benefit of refactoring. Finally, this is where for the first time I truly lived in a full Linux environment. I learned bash, gcc, vim, etc. This has followed me to this day, and I still feel at home in front of a bash prompt.

Programmer-Analyst Intern

• Jan 2004 - Aug 2004