Experienced Software Engineer seeking compelling teammates and projects.
Excited by the opportunity presented by technology to improve lives.
Eager to help organizations achieve excellence as a teammate and leader.
Focused on innovation: refactoring, speed, new features, developer productivity/happiness.
Worked with various business users to dramatically improve various aspects of HireArt's Rails monolith.
VP of Engineering; Consultant
Ozone AI
2020 - 2022 (Los Angeles, CA / Remote)
Personally wrote Minimum Viable Product of https://www.ozone.ai
Hired, trained, and managed team of software engineers to enhance, extend, and scale the MVP vision.
Reached 50,000+ registered users, 30+ million web-browsing records in June 2021.
Chief Technology Officer
Happy Gifts Inc. (ivoryclasp.com; earfleek.com)
2017-2018, 2019-present (Los Angeles, CA)
Owner responsible for startup's technology.
Completely rebuilt operations of small e-commerce business. Incrementally replaced inefficient fulfillment done on a shared Google Sheet with a modern web application built
on Webpack, React, Redux, and Rails 6.
Released consumer-facing "self-style" feature that fundamentally changed the business. Cloned 80% of the features of www.cratejoy.com creating $250,000 of enterprise value.
Chief Technology Officer
CTRL Collective
2018-2019 (Los Angeles, CA)
Served in an executive role in the co-working industry. Responsible for IT management and internal web applications / systems.
Software Engineer
Le Tote
2015-2017 (San Francisco, CA)
Software Engineer involved in planning, coding, and maintenance of core website features for VC-backed startup
Used the following technologies to code/implement features: Ruby on Rails,
ES6 JavaScript (React & Redux), Webpack, Yarn, Node.js, CSS & SCSS, MySQL, AWS EC2, Git, Pivotal Tracker,
Rspec, CircleCI, Github, Redis, AWS ElastiCache, Google Cloud Print, Twilio, Zendesk,
Sift Science, New Relic, etc.
Software Engineer (consultant)
Various
2014-present (Remote)
Education
App Academy (San Francisco, CA)
2014
Immersive programming boot camp, learned Ruby on Rails,
JavaScript, and general best practices of programming.
Course spanned three months with 60-70 hours of work per week.
Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
2006-2010
B. A. Economics, May 2010
McQuaid Jesuit (Rochester, NY)
2002-2006
SAT Score: 2270/2400
Technical Experience
Career: My main areas of expertise are Ruby on Rails, React, and AWS. I think after so many years now, with a little bit of a learning mindset, I **can** code anything pretty well, or help others do the same. I have pursued a number of cool side projects which I enjoy discussing at length. I enjoy talking about business generally.
Hobbies/Interests
Construction, Music, Volleyball, Podcasts such as "Business Breakdowns" and "Rework", Artificial Intelligence
Recent Side Project: wrote www.fillandflush.com - a pure frontend web application that simulates aircraft deplaning
People I Admire in Technology
David Heinemeier-Hansson, Jason Fried, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel,
Werner Vogels, Martin Fowler, Brendan Eich, David Sacks
Keith Rabois, Balaji Srinivasan, Naval Ravikant, Ray Kurzweil,
Sebastian Thrun, Elon Musk