Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Mar 2025 – Jan 2026 · 10 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · On-site

Oct 2023 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Remote

Feb 2023 – Aug 2023 · 6 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

• Led the frontend, backend, and native development of all apps and websites within the “Clubs” organization across a team of six engineers using Python / Django, React / Typescript, and Swift (iOS).
• Collaborated with our datascience and internal tool teams to design and implement a system for personalized book recommendations based on customer feedback and demographic information.
• Scaled our subscription products to support the rapid iteration, experimentation, and execution of over seven different business models, with minimal impact to fulfillment and other business operations.
• Reduced the lead time for launching new features and experimental variants by 10-20% by working with our DevOps team to improve our continuous deployment process and enable preview environments that unblocked stakeholders from validating different initiatives (Kubernetes / NextJS).

Feb 2022 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr · Austin, Texas, United States

Sep 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

Jul 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• Worked on the active development of new features, architecture, and system infrastructure across three products written in Python and Javascript, using React on the frontend and Tornado in the backend.
• Developed the architecture and initial implementation of the desktop podcasting product while leveraging shared code between the browser based application and our mobile (React Native) app on iOS / Android.
• Helped develop and maintain product deployment, infrastructure, and system reliability using Kubernetes, Docker, and a suite of cloud services through AWS, Google Cloud Platform and other vendors.

Jan 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Austin, Texas Area

Oct 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked on the design, architecture, and implementation of new features for a customer service productivity and remote connection tool written in Javascript using using Node and AngularJS.
• Enhanced the user experience and frontend interaction capabilities of existing products by adding real time collaboration features through websockets, html5 canvas, and extending existing UI components.
• Developed the architecture and initial implementation for a system that allowed an organization to view a customer's screen and provided guidance on a website through an embed Javascript browser SDK.
• Assisted in the planning and delegation of features and bug fixes between development cycles by providing sizing estimates and breaking down components into smaller and more manageable tasks.

Jan 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Plays a primary role in providing training, writing documentation, and initiating new software development in new innovation projects
• Acted as a primary developer for a new security product that made use of client side javascript in AngularJS in order to consume, process, and render templates based on encrypted data from a custom REST api written in Node using the restify / express frameworks.
• Helped modernized a SaaS frontend by transitioning from a flash interface to a more responsive design using HTML5, AngularJS, and a RESTful API.
• Developed new features while performing optimizations and other maintenance for a legacy PHP platform in order to ease the transition to Django and a client side javascript reporting system.
• Led the integration of several key partners into the AVG ad exchange platform by coordinating efforts from the sales, engineering, and design teams.

Nov 2002 – Dec 2012 · 10 yrs 1 mo · Greater Atlanta Area

• Founded and successfully sold an online video and gaming website that generated six figure revenues while still in high school.
• Developed and maintained content management solutions for high traffic websites (daily traffic in millions) using PHP, MySQL / PostgreSQL, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Achieved a 70% reduction in technical support costs and overhead by leveraging the FogBugz and ZenDesk APIs to develop a system that determined validity, proposed solutions, and automatically resolved support tickets using Python and Java.
• Developed a system that performed automated provisioning of server resources by using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) API to spawn new EC2 Linux virtual machine instances and utilize S3 cloud storage backends.
• Converted existing website templates to make use of HTML5, CS33, and responsive design patterns that retained the same level of functionality, usability, and shared codebase.
• Automated the process of content production and deployment by developing a distributed system that automatically downloaded new content, performed additional processing, and uploaded the resulting file to the appropriate server using Python and Django.