Apr 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · Vermont, United States

• Jumped from web development to game development, learning C# and the Unity game engine from the ground up.
• Turned my first few months of learning into a small, fully-playable game with full 3D graphics, physics, music, and sound.
• Built and shipped two "Game Jam" games (one in two weeks and the other in two days), both of which were played by hundreds of people on itch.io.

May 2018 – Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Remote

• Worked directly with management to deliver a variety of high-quality and quickly-shipped React Native prototypes to prospective investors.
• Hired on as the first fully-remote employee, tasked with creating processes around the company to encourage remote culture.
• Mentored junior and mid-level engineers about full-stack web application practices.

Feb 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Remote

• Key member of the team that built the widely used Pull Request Reviews feature, the largest improvement to pull requests since their introduction.
• Revamped the Markdown Task Lists feature to allow for dynamic drag-and-drop reordering.
• Early contributor to the Package Management feature, which brought GitHub into a whole new area of development infrastructure.
• Interviewed a wide variety of candidates on both technical skills and collaborative ability.

Mar 2013 – Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Built a feature-rich dashboard for exception monitoring, including highly-performant d3 graphs and comprehensive exception filtering.
• Rewrote legacy Rails app into a well-tested React frontend backed by a robust Rails API.
• Implemented an intelligent exception spike detection algorithm, utilizing mathematical formulas to catch every exception spike while limiting the amount of noise from false positives.
• Built and maintained open source integration libraries and API wrappers for over 40 languages, frameworks, and services.
• Provided customer support for Bugsnag and its open source integration libraries.
• Second engineer in the company. Made key architectural decisions and developed hiring strategies and technical interviews that allowed us to build out a solid engineering team.

Nov 2009 – Apr 2013 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Boulder, CO

• Implemented front-end components from client designs for integration with various application frameworks. Supported, refactored, and developed features on existing application stacks.
• Led client projects by providing strategic direction, technical consulting and high-level support to both startup and established companies. Consulted with project owners to define project scope, objectives, and timeline.
• Participated in the curriculum design of the Apprenticeship Program. Mentored apprentices in software development best practices.
• Evangelized and spoke at technical conferences and community groups.