Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · Remote

• A resource rich weekly podcast and newsletter for local business owners.

Nov 2021 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States · Remote

• NOTE: Bounty was acquired in August 2024 by gen.video
• Helped raise over 6 million in multiple rounds from top VCs to capture the long tail of social media influencers.
• I led and managed the development team of the Bounty platform and network (a Shopify App & experience for social media influencers).
• Built in 100% Typescript, nx monorepo, Lambdas on the backend and React on the frontend in AWS.

Jul 2021 – Nov 2021 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• At Dharma I focused on applying my Typesscript experience to the backend where I converted the existing code base to use the Typescript compiler & migrated parts of the code base to Typescript. I worked on the Polygon rollout helping to turn Dharma into multichain application. Sadly, I left earlier than I would have liked to in order to help found Bounty. Dharma was acquired by OpenSea in Jan 2022.

Apr 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Remote

• Built UI & API for new machine learning powered financial crime research system.
• Created a dynamically populated data visualization tool for generic tabular data
• React, Node, TypeScript, GraphQL, Apollo, ArangoDB (it's a noSQL document / graph DB).

Jan 2020 – Apr 2020 · 3 mos · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Architected & stood up new POC for employee search profile tool implemented as a graph database
• Used React, TypeScript, Node, Apollo & Neo4j.
• Built out a relational --> graph structure ETL pipeline

Sep 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr

• Used Node.js, React, GraphQL, Apollo, Express.js, ArangoDB, AWS, Fargate, Docker, Jenkins.
• Led a small team as the backend architect

Jul 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Worked on in-store mapping services and sales floor routing optimization services
• Media mentions: https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/20/target-app-will-guide-you-to-items/
• Deployed dozens of microservices at massive scale on Kubernetes clusters
• Analyzed product position data using machine learning techniques
• Tech used: React, React-Native, Groovy, Kubernetes, Spring, Python, Sci-kit Learn

Aug 2016 – Jun 2017 · 10 mos · Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

• Teaching Java Programming I - IT-161 class. (Part time)

Apr 2016 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Cincinnati, OH

• Consulted at Kroger in Kroger Digital on various customer loyalty programs, including online recipes and an online receipt history system.
• Designed and built a large-scale fault-tolerant system that will process millions of transactions daily.
• Tech used: Java 8, Spring, Netflix OSS like Hystrix, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Node, React + Redux, ES2015 and Docker.

Mar 2015 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Cincinnati, OH

• Maintained policy admin system for Alternative Markets division.
• Worked on rules based next generation policy admin system.
• Some technologies used: Java, Spring, Hibernate, AngularJS, Groovy, JavaScript, Oracle.

Jun 2014 – Mar 2015 · 9 mos · Cincinnati, OH

• Implemented new features and fixed bugs on major client facing apps in both Google Play and iOS App Store using Phonegap and Ember.
• Maintained large Node.js systems in the restaurant marketing space.
• Integrated with third party systems to provide key new features in existing in-house systems.

Jan 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 2 mos · United States

• Typescript, AWS, React, Postgres, Twilio, LLM context management.
• I sometimes do short-term consulting gigs for various clients if time allows. Shoot me a message if you think I can help.

Jun 2012 – Jun 2014 · 2 yrs · Cincinnati, OH

• Used Java, Struts 2, Tomcat, MySQL, XSLT, Flex, Django, PHP, HTML5, Phonegap.
• Developed B2B cross platform apps (iPad, iPhone, web based) for use in the construction industry.
• Deployed and maintained linux and windows servers on a fully virtualized and clustered VMWare environment.
• Managed MS AD services, Exchange, DHCP, DNS and Cisco ASAs.