Sep 2020 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

• As the 5th hire, was the single owner of fullstack apps, which consisted of an SPA React web app, electron app, chrome plugin, excel plugin, & remote-desktop connector, all connected into a desktop automation app backed by an AI engine.
• Owned app store & release lifecycle for electron app, chrome plugin, & excel plugin.
• Handled a lot of complexity in getting all of those apps to communicate seamlessly
• Built a React.js app that allows users to remotely view/control a windows machine running in the cloud (think browserstack)
• Used Z3 and Program Synthesis to contribute to the building of an auditable AI engine trained from minimal (and private) example sets as opposed to training inauditable ML models from large datasets.

Apr 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Remote - St Louis

Jan 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Lead the backend and fullstack apps engineering org consisting of three teams that owned everything minus web content publishing.
• The company was a success and had a $600M exit.
• Owned the talent acquisition processes from req writing/posting to interview structure and hiring decisions
• Owned & continuously improved application visibility/monitoring/uptime
• Oversaw multiple architecture migrations that improved developer experience and maintained low technical debt (continuous deployments were 2-9 mins depending on the service)
• Oversaw migration from a monolithic service to multiple, discrete services, improving team's ability to own more and iterate & deploy faster.
• Migrated from disposable-containers on long-lived servers to fully-disposable AWS Fargate containers.
• Improved performance of critical systems by 1,000%, resulting in significant conversion increases
• Made sure every user-facing issue had actionable alerting and useful metrics for troubleshooting

Nov 2013 – Sep 2020 · 6 yrs 10 mos

• Built and owned a new containerized infrastructure to replace a persistent-server infrastructure (Docker was very bleeding edge at the time)
• Built a continuous deployment pipeline to replace manual, cli-driven deployment
• Core contributor on fullstack applications
• Infrastructure/DevOps: AWS, Docker, Terraform, Rancher, DevOps, ChatOps, Nginx, HAProxy
• Backend: Node.js with Express, Next.js, Koa, Hapi, SSR React apps, microservices
• Frontend: React with MobX, Redux, Flux, maintaining Angular 1 legacy apps

Oct 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 5 mos · YouTube

• Built a 750,000+ subscriber/45M view YouTube channel centered around developer training.

May 2013 – Nov 2013 · 6 mos · Remote

• 6mo contract for a large-scale single-page application used by public schools in 33 states. Technology stack included Grails and Node.js services, Backbone.js, Coffeescript, Jenkins CI, Karma w/Jasmine unit tests, Geb/Selenium functional tests.

Jul 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Atlanta, GA

• Built, tested & deployed backbone.js apps including:
• WebMD Interaction Checker App http://www.webmd.com/interaction-checker/
• WebMD "My Medicine" App http://www.webmd.com/my-medicine/
• And other fun things

Aug 2010 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · St. Louis, MO

• Built MVP realtime real estate valuation software (think Zillow before Zillow) that generated pricing analysis reports directly from data streamed from the MLS database. My focus here was mostly SPA frontend work and dynamic PDF generation, but I also worked on the PHP backend in some capacity.

Jan 2008 – Aug 2013 · 5 yrs 7 mos

• Organized and lead team web development projects and handled client relations.
• Focus was mostly LAMP stack apps or web content/graphic/branding development & for small businesses.

Jan 2001 – Mar 2010 · 9 yrs 2 mos

• Single contributor owning 3 websites centered around online registrations and CMS-style management for 50+ groups - almost like a mini in-house version of Meetup. Platform was mostly Wordpress.