Jun 2023 – Oct 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Remote

Nov 2021 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Develop, write, review, and publish software development tutorials for the Twilio blog, with a focus on C# and .NET. In my first year, the traffic to .NET content grew by 77%.
• Contribute to and maintain open-source projects for Twilio and Twilio related products.
• Answer technical questions about Twilio products on StackOverflow.
• Give coding talks about Twilio and .NET at virtual and in-person conferences and meetups.

Apr 2021 – Nov 2021 · 7 mos · Virginia, United States

• Develop and lead MetroStar’s internship program with a focus on Power Platform
• Prepare training material and teach the fundamentals of Power Platform
• Develop React + USDS based applications for tech challenges put forth for Government proposals.

Jan 2018 – Mar 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Virginia, United States

• Develop and administrate SharePoint and Dynamics CRM custom solutions for multiple government and private sector clients
• Build websites and applications using ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET MVC, MSSQL, modern frontend tooling (NodeJS, Gulp, ES6, SASS), and CMS’s
• Fix accessibility issues and achieve 508/WCAG compliance
• Tech lead on agile projects with teams consisting of multiple developers, designers, business analysts, and quality engineers
• Automate administrative tasks using PowerShell
• Write technical documentation and educate team members with in-house presentations

Sep 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Ghent

• Develop, maintain, and deploy Sitecore CMS websites using C#, ASP.NET MVC, MSSQL, jQuery, AngularJS, and LESS
• Create Automated UI tests using Selenium integrated into monitoring and alerting systems
• Setup Bamboo Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines
• Tech lead on a project with a team consisting of multiple developers, a designer, a functional analyst, a business analyst, and a quality engineer

May 2016 – Present · 10 yrs

• Write technical articles on C#, .NET, web development, Azure Cloud, Azure DevOps, Umbraco, PowerShell, Twilio, etc.
• Grow personal blog to an audience of 11k unique users (GA), 23k page views (GA), and 2.8M HTTP requests (Cloudflare) monthly
• Content featured in newsletters, blogs, and video’s/streams including by Microsoft
• Articles appear on the first page/featured snippet on Google about Azure, Cloudflare, DevOps, Selenium, .NET, etc.
• Develop SEO optimized website backend for blogging using Umbraco CMS and ASP.NET MVC, and frontend using NodeJS, Webpack, and Sass
• Setup continuous integration and deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps
• Host website on the Azure Cloud platform using Azure App Service, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, and Azure Application Insights
• Monitor website metrics using Azure Application Insights, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Bing Webmasters, Yandex Webmasters, SEMrush, etc.

Sep 2015 – Aug 2016 · 11 mos · Ghent

• Develop an application for companies to hire students and manage vacancies using PHP Laravel, MySQL, Bootstrap, Angular, and jQuery
• Build a dashboard using VueJS to perform administrative tasks and get insights into the application usage
• Setup, deploy, and maintain a LAMP server

Jan 2015 – May 2015 · 4 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Develop and maintain administrative application using Ruby on Rails
• Perform requirements analysis and provide technical advice on projects
• Document deployment and maintenance tasks for the Ruby on Rails server

Jul 2014 – Sep 2014 · 2 mos · Bruges Metropolitan Area

• Develop multilingual sites with PHP MVC frameworks CodeIgniter and Symfony, an in-house CMS, and MySQL
• Develop and design the beta version for the new Stardekk website