Experience

FlyCoin

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • Jun 2021 - Present



ChunkHost

• Founder

  • Oct 2008 - Jun 2019

  Conceived product and built all technical elements of a successful cloud hosting company. This involved virtualization, networking, datacenter build-out, distributed storage, monitoring, emergency hardware repairs, security management, remote backups, and many disparate technologies to service thousands of customers. The service now successfully continues without day-to-day involvement. Conceived product and built all technical elements of a successful cloud hosting company. This involved virtualization, networking, datacenter build-out, distributed storage, monitoring, emergency hardware repairs, security management, remote backups, and many disparate technologies to service thousands of customers. The service now successfully continues without day-to-day involvement.



Dagger Analytics

• Co-Founder

  • Nov 2014 - Feb 2016

  Developed systems for a legal eDiscovery startup using machine learning to dramatically reduce the time and expense of litigation discovery. These systems processed huge amounts of data very quickly at dramatically lower cost than the competition. Gained significant experience with the Go language, as well as Amazon Web Services, at times employing tens of thousands of CPU cores simultaneously at very low cost. Worked directly in sales and with client attorneys using an understanding of matters both technical and legal to deliver results. Show less



DreamHost

• United States
• Internet Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Development & System Administration Team Leader

  • Apr 2002 - Jun 2006

  From my success leading the Development Team, also assumed leadership of the System Administration team as well, directly reporting to the company founders about all technical concerns.Accommodated a massive increase in customer base, revenue, and products while lowering headcount.

• Development Team Lead

  • Jan 2002 - Apr 2002

  Was asked by the founders to lead the Development team, which successfully completed a large product expansion.

• Programmer

  • May 1998 - Dec 2001

  One of the first employees at what is now the largest independent web hosting company in the world. Recruited as a programmer while still an undergraduate, was responsible for writing core functionality of the hosting technology and innovative user interface.