Sep 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos · United States

• Helping fintechs get products to market.

Jul 2019 – Oct 2019 · 3 mos

Feb 2019 – Jul 2019 · 5 mos

• Working to end the paycheck to paycheck cycle.
• golang, postgres, k8s, terraform, aws

Nov 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · United States

• A member of a small team that launched Open Platform, a white label Banking as a Service platform powered by BBVA.
• Designed & Implemented serverless architecture closely aligned with AWS via AWS SAM, goformation and bazel for Open Platform product.
• Contributor to AWS Labs goformation project.
• Contributor to BBVA technical due diligence on clients.
• golang, java, bazel, aws, lambda, dynamo, cognito, cloudformation, goformation

Mar 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

• Migrated Simple's partner bank to BBVA, which increased revenues and decreased costs while unlocking new possibilities for the incumbent leader in Challenger banks.
• Lead migration of Simple customers from Bancorp backed processor, to Open Platform Compass backed processor.
• Contributor to Simple's pgkafka change data capture system. First application use via migration project.
• Contributor to new features in Simple's core accounting system which powers their safe to spend feature.
• scala, java, clojure, postgres, kafka, aws, dynamo

Jul 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

• Helped bring card processing in-house and integrate with BBVA after acquisition.
• Lead integration of First Data and Simple.
• Lead design/implementation of card APIs with First Data.
• Contributed design & implementation of "two bank" architecture with Compass.
• Contributed to ACH processing system.
• scala, java, aws, dropwizard, bash, distributed systems, postgres, rabbitmq, kafka

Sep 2015 – Mar 2016 · 6 mos · New York City

• Brought an engineering team in-house while setting up technical and cultural ability to deliver new features on a product that had been inactively maintained.
• Lead integration with Stripe for payments of won auctions.
• Lead migration of terabyte+ Mysql databases from hosted infra to AWS Aurora.
• Recruited key hires for support of product teams.
• Defined initial engineering culture and approach.
• golang, aws, php, rabbitmq, mysql, aurora

May 2012 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · Portland, Oregon

• Built new products for the pioneering web analytics company.
• Lead design/implementation of Action Center product
• Contributor to DX product, including sql based filtering feature
• scala, c#, antlr, hbase, cassandra, sql server, chef

Jan 2010 – Jun 2012 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Designed/Implemented fleet management of encrypted hard drive SaaS
• Contributed to scrambls.com encryption communications platform
• javascript, jquery, c#, java, cassandra, java

Nov 2006 – Oct 2011 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Pioneered real time apis and commerce via mobile devices.
• Designed & Implemented APIs that powered iphone, android and blackberry applications
• Designed & Implemented front end architecture for Seamless consumer web application, including building new routing features in MVC framework Maverick.NET
• Designed & Implemented loyalty/reward system for gamification efforts on seamless. Powered the "Pickup Paydays" product.
• Participated in drafting technology vision and roadmap
• c#, sql server

Jan 2004 – Aug 2005 · 1 yr 7 mos · Iowa City-Cedar Rapids Area

• Contributor fuel reporting and geo location software for the ERAD product for CSX Rail.
• Contributor for switch & signal manager BNSF and CBTM Positive Train Control systems.
• Put linux on a xbox!
• c, qnx, linux