Dec 2017 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led Parabola's engineering team from the Seed round through the successful raise of the Series A. This involved hiring, managing, and growing a team of software engineers working full stack. Helped to re-architect our core systems relying on AWS tooling with Node/Typescript, Redis, and various data stores to improve reliability (measured by success of flows) and performance (measured by execution time and memory usage).

Jun 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Raised a seed round to create a new scalable, technology based property management solution. Opened operations in one location growing up to 100 properties under management, while translating manual property management operations to technology-driven replacements. This included development of an Uber for property viewing app, which facilitated on demand workers enabling prospective tenants to see properties as well as financial and property health reporting in an owner dashboard.

Sep 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Lead engineer for the web team at Primer: directly managing three engineers. Our team focused on building the dashboard and API on AWS (Elasticbeanstalk, Aurora, Kinesis, Lambda, and more) using AngularJS and Ruby on Rails to build a WYSIWYG interface which translated a visual screen into native mobile app code via an SDK.

Apr 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Developed core systems and game features for the Ninja Clans Zynga game. Started on the team from the beginning of the game all the way to launch. Worked closely with fellow software engineers, game designers, PMs, and producers to deliver fun and stable game features. Wrote server side code using PHP and client side code in ActionScript.

Aug 2012 – Apr 2013 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Full stack engineer utilizing ActionScript and PHP to develop core game mechanics and features for the CityVille game, as well as for an upcoming unreleased game title.

Mar 2012 – Aug 2012 · 5 mos

• Developed the underlying backend to the video tagging software in Python, Django, and MongoDB.
• Assisted in the development of a real time HTML5 video tagging software with jQuery/Javascript.
• Helped network and market the product to potential investors, incubator programs, and other entrepreneurs.

Jun 2011 – Aug 2011 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Software Engineering Intern at Zynga San Francisco, worked on feature development (jQuery/PHP/Memcache) with the Mafia Wars team.

Jun 2010 – Sep 2010 · 3 mos

• Summer intern at the Entertainment Technology Center @ USC, focused on web programming for the ETC.

Jan 2005 – May 2011 · 6 yrs 4 mos

• TeckFusion, LLC was a web development and design company. We specialized in the creation of our own web projects as well as in the design of high quality web sites for our clients. The most notable venture of TeckFusion was TeriPets.com, an online virtual gaming site with over 100,000 registered users.