May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · United States

• Helping developer-focused companies create developer tools that developers love to use.

Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · New York, United States

• Creating Technical Content: I will craft high-quality technical tutorials, guides, workshops, and open-source repositories that facilitate a better understanding of your technology for developers. One of my strengths is breaking down complex concepts into simple, easy-to-understand materials, which helps developers use your technology more easily.
• Developer Experience Audit: I will conduct a thorough audit of your platforms, APIs, SDKs, documentation, and GitHub repositories. I'll identify areas that need improvement and provide actionable recommendations. Plus, I'm more than happy to work alongside your team to help address these points, all with the ultimate aim of making life easier for developers.

Nov 2022 – Jun 2023 · 7 mos · New York, United States

Aug 2022 – Nov 2022 · 3 mos · New York, United States

Apr 2021 – Mar 2022 · 11 mos

• Alexa Skills Kit SDK, Alexa CLI

Feb 2016 – Jun 2021 · 5 yrs 4 mos

• Educating and inspiring developers all around the world to help build new voice experiences using Alexa.
• ▶︎ Educated developers Alexa Skill building through technical workshops and Hackathons.
• ▶︎ Engage with developers by speaking at developer conferences, and meetups, and online.
• ▶︎ Create technical content (sample code, blogs, tutorials, videos) for developers.
• ▶︎ Created the first Codecademy course on Alexa Skill development in 2017, with an updated version in 2018.
• ▶︎ Led the Alexa content track to help the team plan and deliver high quality content over 100 developer focused sessions at AWS re:Invent 2018.
• ▶︎ Authored technical content on the official Amazon Alexa Developer blog.
• ▶︎ Alexa's launch in India and Germany.

Jan 2015 – Jun 2015 · 5 mos

• ▶︎ Manage the product requirements behind the first UI and product feature refresh of Hacker League with a team of 3 engineers.
• ▶︎ Managed the key partner relationships with Hackathon organizers and key users of Hacker League platform that helped us identify the product features and UI refresh we pushed out in September 2014.
• ▶︎ Led the Hacker League knowledge transfer for Intel by writing and maintaining the development and operations Runbook for the platform.
• ▶︎ Rolled up the sleeves and contributed to Hacker League codebase (Heroku, Ruby, Mongo). Also helped spin up Hacker League instances for our Enterprise customers.
• ▶︎ Wrote and and maintained the development and operations Runbook for Hacker League

May 2013 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Aug 2011 – May 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Help developers build amazing things by organizing, volunteering and speaking at user groups and conferences across North America & Europe.
• Educate and empower developers by organizing and participating in local, national, and international developer events (hackathons, meetups, technical workshops, conferences) across North America & Europe.
• Create technical content for publication on Mashery/Intel blog to showcase the apps built using the Mashery APIs/Intel technologies.
• Support and answer developer questions wherever they are - Stack Overflow, Quora, Twitter, and everywhere in between.
• Build and maintain apps/libraries that help developers adopt Mashery APIs.
• Gather feedback about customer APIs and relay them back to the customers to help improve the respective platforms and the developer experience.
• All things developer.mashery.com

Jul 2009 – Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• A small design studio, specializing in User Interface Design of Websites, iPhone & iPad apps. Creating wireframes, mock-ups, artwork & Front-end web development (HTML/CSS) for clients looking for simple yet elegant designs.

Jun 2009 – Sep 2011 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• A Ruby on Rails app that lets you build and track habits on an everyday basis.
• I was responsible for the Front-end design, Ruby on Rails templates, creating a mobile optimized version of the app and custom HTML templates for notification emails.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2011 · 6 yrs · Virginia

• Typical freelance projects consisted of complete website development from concept and design to programming, testing, hosting and maintenance. CMS’ like Wordpress formed a large part of the solutions, giving low-tech business owners & em- ployees the ability to update their own website.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2010 · 5 yrs

• Served as the primary web developer. Planned, designed and developed the company’s corpo- rate website. Undertook various initiatives to redesign the intranet to provide better usability, increased speed, and a friendlier design.