Experience

Panvala

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • Apr 2018 - Jun 2023

  Built the team and designed the architecture for Panvala, a cash-back offers platform for communities to connect with businesses that want to spend their marketing dollars on supporting communities. Used Ethereum smart contracts to build a “DAO” governance system for participating communities to directly control the network and the token that powered the network. Recruited new communities to join the network, and sold marketing campaigns to businesses. Built the team and designed the architecture for Panvala, a cash-back offers platform for communities to connect with businesses that want to spend their marketing dollars on supporting communities. Used Ethereum smart contracts to build a “DAO” governance system for participating communities to directly control the network and the token that powered the network. Recruited new communities to join the network, and sold marketing campaigns to businesses.



ConsenSys

• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Engineer

  • Sep 2015 - Jan 2020

  Built some of the first Ethereum-based blockchain applications right after the launch of Ethereum. Used Node.js and React for the web applications we built on top of smart contracts. Worked on prediction markets and crowdfunding applications. Performed security audits of clients’ smart contracts. Incubated the start-up that later spun out of ConsenSys as Panvala. Built some of the first Ethereum-based blockchain applications right after the launch of Ethereum. Used Node.js and React for the web applications we built on top of smart contracts. Worked on prediction markets and crowdfunding applications. Performed security audits of clients’ smart contracts. Incubated the start-up that later spun out of ConsenSys as Panvala.



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• United States
• Hospitality

• Product Manager and Senior Software Engineer

  • Sep 2013 - Sep 2015

  Web: Used Django and Tornado in Python as well as Scala to build web services for our apps. Included a mobile app, a CRM web application to give merchants actionable data, a secure message router to get payment info from phones to point-of-sale systems, and point-of sale integrations to build a single consistent API for our apps to call that worked the several point-of-sale systems we supported. Mobile: Re-architected our Java-based Android app to make it testable, and designed the… Show more Web: Used Django and Tornado in Python as well as Scala to build web services for our apps. Included a mobile app, a CRM web application to give merchants actionable data, a secure message router to get payment info from phones to point-of-sale systems, and point-of sale integrations to build a single consistent API for our apps to call that worked the several point-of-sale systems we supported. Mobile: Re-architected our Java-based Android app to make it testable, and designed the mechanisms we use to maintain a persistent websocket connection at appropriate times during the Android process lifecycle. I built the cultural buy-in for software development practices that brought an end to recurrent bugs as a normal way of life, like automated testing and code review. In my product manager role, I designed a user experience that eliminated the need for waiter training, interviewed merchants to gather their needs and build products around them, gathered details about the development team's needs so we could flesh them out into actual projects, and maintained the roadmap and progress reports for our team to keep the rest of the business in the loop. The first project I took on had been going on for a year with no end in sight, and I developed a viable plan for getting it out the door. Show less Web: Used Django and Tornado in Python as well as Scala to build web services for our apps. Included a mobile app, a CRM web application to give merchants actionable data, a secure message router to get payment info from phones to point-of-sale systems, and point-of sale integrations to build a single consistent API for our apps to call that worked the several point-of-sale systems we supported. Mobile: Re-architected our Java-based Android app to make it testable, and designed the… Show more Web: Used Django and Tornado in Python as well as Scala to build web services for our apps. Included a mobile app, a CRM web application to give merchants actionable data, a secure message router to get payment info from phones to point-of-sale systems, and point-of sale integrations to build a single consistent API for our apps to call that worked the several point-of-sale systems we supported. Mobile: Re-architected our Java-based Android app to make it testable, and designed the mechanisms we use to maintain a persistent websocket connection at appropriate times during the Android process lifecycle. I built the cultural buy-in for software development practices that brought an end to recurrent bugs as a normal way of life, like automated testing and code review. In my product manager role, I designed a user experience that eliminated the need for waiter training, interviewed merchants to gather their needs and build products around them, gathered details about the development team's needs so we could flesh them out into actual projects, and maintained the roadmap and progress reports for our team to keep the rest of the business in the loop. The first project I took on had been going on for a year with no end in sight, and I developed a viable plan for getting it out the door. Show less



Texas Tribune

• United States
• Internet News
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Director of Technology

  • Jul 2010 - Jun 2012

  I built and ran the engineering team that kept the Tribune’s Django-powered journalism on its award-winning trajectory, and ensured that our reputation as one of the most innovative newsrooms in the country had staying power.

• Software Engineer

  • Oct 2009 - Jul 2010

  I was part of a two-man development team that built the technology that ran The Texas Tribune nearly from scratch.


Austin American-Statesman
• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Web Development Specialist

  • Jul 2009 - Nov 2009