Experience

BARKBOX, INC.

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Software Engineer

  • Apr 2020 - Present

  Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area



Sweeten

• Advertising Services

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Sep 2016 - Apr 2020

  Greater New York City Area I planned and built the back end architecture for large scale features on Sweeten, including scheduling systems, budget estimating formulas and caching to improve page load times by 3X. I also frequently fixed bugs in complex legacy code that affected everything from page load times to data synchronicity.



ShadowTV

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

• Research Director

  • Oct 2015 - Jan 2016

  Greater New York City Area • Expanded the company’s data collection network by configuring 15 Windows servers with Windows media encoders to process raw video streams. • Produced dozens of branded data visualizations using JavaScript and D3.js for the marketing team by processing thousands of hours of TV data from the company’s API.



Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Adjunct Assistant Professor

  • Jun 2015 - Sep 2015

  Greater New York City Area • Helped teach Python, data analysis, web scraping and machine learning to 20 journalists in 3 months.



Facebook

• India
• Banking

• Content Curator

  • Feb 2015 - Jul 2015

  Greater New York City Area • Curated Facebook’s trending section with high quality content by quickly and efficiently describing, editing, and verifying at least 50 stories a day from around the world.



The New York World

• United States
• Investment Management

• Data Reporting Fellow

  • Sep 2014 - Feb 2015

  Columbia University • Built Python web scrapers to pull and analyze data from New York government sources.



Gouverneur Tribune Press

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing

• Freelance Reporter

  • Oct 2012 - Jun 2013

  Gouverneur, NY • Wrote 10 articles for this weekly print publication about the town of Edwards, NY. • Reported stories about structure fires, new businesses, school and town budgets, and one parent organization bent on firing the school superintendent.



The Malone Telegram

• News Reporter

  • Sep 2012 - Oct 2012

  • Wrote 26 articles for this six-day-a-week newspaper based in the old, North Country mill-town of Malone. • Covered the school and town boards of six small towns around Malone and photographed fires, sports, and construction for the front page.



North Country Public Radio

• United States
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Web Intern

  • Sep 2011 - May 2012

  Canton, NY • Edited and transcribed audio stories posted to the website, cut audio files for production, and produced two radio stories for broadcast.



Rahr Malting Company

• Quality Control Laboratory Intern

  • Jun 2010 - Aug 2010

  Shakopee Minnesota • Conducted toxin, and moisture-content tests on grains from Budweiser, Miller, and smaller regional suppliers, and aided in other more complicated protein analyses of the grains.