Experience

VECKTA

• United States
• Services for Renewable Energy
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Engineering at VECKTA

  • Nov 2021 - Present

  San Diego, California, United States VECKTA helps commercial and industrial businesses reduce energy costs, increase energy reliability, and achieve sustainability goals with an integrated marketplace for onsite energy development. VECKTA reduces to the time and resources needed to assess, design, optimize and engineer your energy system, both technically and financially, to precisely match your needs. Our platform does the heavy lifting of engineering and capital planning, to find the least-cost, best-fit solutions… Show more VECKTA helps commercial and industrial businesses reduce energy costs, increase energy reliability, and achieve sustainability goals with an integrated marketplace for onsite energy development. VECKTA reduces to the time and resources needed to assess, design, optimize and engineer your energy system, both technically and financially, to precisely match your needs. Our platform does the heavy lifting of engineering and capital planning, to find the least-cost, best-fit solutions tailored to your facility, location, business needs, and investment criteria. I love product development and wearing many hats in the organization. My mandate is to do what it takes to get the software out the door with activities including leading/supporting the engineering team, working closely with the business team to evolve product requirements, project management, UX design, coaching and mentorship. I am passionate about building the right product for Veckta's users. Activities - Lead company engineering function that develops world class software - Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to build features that solve the right problems - Manage software operations, including triage, documentation and response - Develop software roadmap, plan epics, design user experiences and break work down into feature stories - Review, perform quality assurance and maintain a high level of software quality - Develop and maintain cloud and application deployment infrastructure - Researches and evaluates new technology, 3rd party data sources and other innovations which could improve application performance

• Principal Software Engineer

  • Feb 2020 - Present

  San Diego, California, United States



Cambia Health Solutions

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Development Engineer / Team Lead

  • Apr 2016 - Nov 2019

  Portland, Oregon Area I developed a payment application for medical claims that provides insights for how users can save money. Instead of going to multiple provider portals, we allowed all these claims/bills to flow into the app. This allowed users to pay all of their medical bills in one place. The app was supported by our talented billing specialists, who help to understand medical bills and advocate for the user. Predominantly, I focused on the back-end part of the app running multiple microservices. -… Show more I developed a payment application for medical claims that provides insights for how users can save money. Instead of going to multiple provider portals, we allowed all these claims/bills to flow into the app. This allowed users to pay all of their medical bills in one place. The app was supported by our talented billing specialists, who help to understand medical bills and advocate for the user. Predominantly, I focused on the back-end part of the app running multiple microservices. - Developed insights for bills employing medical expert knowledge and data science techniques - Engineered RESTful APIs using Node.js on the back-end (express, sequelize, Cognito/JWT-based auth, jest) - Developed React-Native front-end app to support iOS and Android devices - Constructed Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) pipelines using AWS technologies: S3, Lambda, SQS, ECS and RDS (Postgres/MySQL) - Employed AWS technologies: EC2, IAM, load balancers, Route53, ACM and CloudWatch Logs/Events - Assisted with CI/CD pipeline development with GitLab CI and Jenkins - Processed HL7 FHIR-based explanation of benefit resources - Developed and led agile rituals including scrum, sprint planning, demo and grooming - Practiced Test Driven Development (TDD) - Developed API documentation and enabled four front-end teams integrate with our back-end - Set up monitoring and alerting both via email and Slack using New Relic, Datadog and custom code - Debugged, reproduced locally and fixed multiple production issues Show less



HP

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

• Software Development Engineer

  • Jan 2014 - Apr 2016

  Vancouver, WA Instant Ink Subscription Service (https://instantink.hpconnected.com) - Ruby on Rails - Deliver back-end fulfillment and point-of-sale activation (card redemption) services for Instant Ink - Develop multiple bill payment systems including US and overseas - Increased customer base by over 50X to support 1M active customers - Communicate with over 1M printer embedded systems (authorization, encryption, monitoring, fulfillment, data for user dashboards) - Create rails engines… Show more Instant Ink Subscription Service (https://instantink.hpconnected.com) - Ruby on Rails - Deliver back-end fulfillment and point-of-sale activation (card redemption) services for Instant Ink - Develop multiple bill payment systems including US and overseas - Increased customer base by over 50X to support 1M active customers - Communicate with over 1M printer embedded systems (authorization, encryption, monitoring, fulfillment, data for user dashboards) - Create rails engines for tax calculation and prepaid cards - Investigate and fix production issues using New Relic and Splunk - Analyze and improve application performance and scalability by generating statistics and graphing trends in Splunk - Big data investigation using Vertica - Use agile methodologies including test driven development and pair programming - Prototype applications using Rails and Sinatra Show less



PDX Fab

• Owner

  • Feb 2012 - Jul 2014

  Portland, Oregon Area CNC fabrication of wood, plastics and light metals http://www.facebook.com/pdxfab/ http://pdxfab.com



Mentor Graphics

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Development Engineer

  • Jun 2012 - Jan 2014

  Wilsonville, OR • Developed web based VHDL-AMS simulation platform backed by Windows Azure cloud services • Implemented REST web API using ASP .NET MVC to support customers and development team • Trained client developers and prototyped javascript / HTML5 tools • Employed Agile development practices including test-driven development and pair programming • Exercised code with unit tests using RestSharp, Fiddler and POSTman



Portland State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Software Development and Testing Scholar

  • Dec 2012 - Mar 2013

  Portland, Oregon Area Instructor for Software Engineering and Testing class. This is a project class focusing on the following areas: -Java User Interfaces -Web Scripting (Javascript / PHP) -Android / mobile -Drivers / virtual devices -Arduino / C programming



Portland State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 2011 - Jun 2012

  Portland, Oregon Area TA for for multiple classes including: Elements of Software Engineering (CS300) Practical techniques of program development for medium-scale software produced by individuals. Software development from problem specification through design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. The fundamental design techniques of step-wise refinement and data abstraction. A software project will be carried through the development cycle. Software Engineering (CS454/554) Current… Show more TA for for multiple classes including: Elements of Software Engineering (CS300) Practical techniques of program development for medium-scale software produced by individuals. Software development from problem specification through design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. The fundamental design techniques of step-wise refinement and data abstraction. A software project will be carried through the development cycle. Software Engineering (CS454/554) Current methodologies for the development of large, industrial strength software systems. Topics include requirements, specification, design, implementation, testing, project management and cost estimation, formal methods, and software process improvement Operating Systems (CS333) Software Engineering with Components (CS552) Introduction to Programming and Problem-solving (CS161) Introduction to Computer Science (CS162) Data Structures (CS163)

• PAVE Lab Manager

  • Mar 2011 - Jun 2012

  Portland, Oregon Area PAVE stands for physical artifact, virtual experience. At PAVE Lab we strive to promote learning about the physical world using virtual technology. We employ embedded systems to connect existing hardware with an interface that leverages the power of the Internet. This enables individuals anywhere in the world to interact with hardware systems in a meaningful way. We believe that hands on access with real (as opposed to purely virtual systems) is vital educational component. In a time of… Show more PAVE stands for physical artifact, virtual experience. At PAVE Lab we strive to promote learning about the physical world using virtual technology. We employ embedded systems to connect existing hardware with an interface that leverages the power of the Internet. This enables individuals anywhere in the world to interact with hardware systems in a meaningful way. We believe that hands on access with real (as opposed to purely virtual systems) is vital educational component. In a time of budget shortfalls and rising fuel costs, our approach allows anyone with a high speed internet connection to interact with our system. Students that might not otherwise be able to go to a museum can interact with exhibits right from the classroom. Similarly, businesses who cannot afford to fly employees out to one location can host virtual training seminars with multiple employees spread throughout the world.

• Graduate Student in Computer Science

  • Sep 2010 - Jun 2012

  Portland, Oregon Area Software Engineering, Systems and Networking



Thetus Corporation

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Development Intern

  • Jun 2011 - Sep 2011

  Portland, Oregon Area Java / Actionscript development Development and profiling efficient data structures Code generation technology



Plastic Supply

• General Manager

  • May 2004 - Aug 2010

  Orchestrated sales and marketing activities resulting in 2M in revenue. Oversaw 10 employees in sales and warehouse positions. Supervised A/R, A/P, inventory, fabrication and delivery operations. Produced AutoCAD shop drawings and assisted in engineering projects. Managed company file, e-mail and web servers



Ultra Poly

• Product Development

  • 2002 - 2004

  Developed ADA compliant anti-slip products and applications. Created a CRM database with a PHP front end and MySQL back end. Implemented production scheduling and inventory management systems. Managed company file, e-mail and web servers



Physiome Sciences

• Modeling Associate

  • 2001 - 2002

  We constructed mathematical models biochemical pathways and T-lymphocyte differentiation. Developed parameter estimation methods. Implemented code to generate websites from software models



UCLA

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Associate

  • 2000 - 2001

  Simulated and analyzed models using uncertainty and sensitivity methods. Programmed infectious disease models as interactive applets. Designed site dedicated to Sally Blower’s research. Worked on several research projects including papers that were published in Nature Medicine and The Lancet Infectious Diseases.