May 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

Jun 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Sep 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

Jun 2016 – Sep 2016 · 3 mos

• Responsible for all engineering efforts related to the LivingSocial merchant platform; responsible for code review and architecture decisions on 19+ merchant-specific applications, gems, and apis; regularly mentor junior developers and pair with senior level engineers across the LivingSocial build team to enhance and improve the merchant experience

Jan 2014 – May 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Member of merchant web core services team that oversees development on the LivingSocial Merchant Center merchant web portal; primary engineer for new feature development on Merchant iOS app.
• Implemented realtime offer adjustment and cap management. Merchants can pause or set specific times when their promotions are featured throughout the LivingSocial platform and increase or reduce the quantity and type of offers visible to consumers
• Implemented impersonation feature for LivingSocial staff on merchant iOS app. LivingSocial staff can directly recreate a merchant’s experience on their own iOS device to help troubleshoot support issues, field merchant questions, and better optimize the merchant platform experience

Aug 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Junior member of the merchant web core servces team at LivingSocial. Worked to implement the merchant demo website so that LivingSocial sales staff can showcase the full web experience to prospective merchants using tailored data without needing to access the production web portal

Mar 2012 – Jul 2012 · 4 mos

• Intensive five-month ruby on rails bootcamp. Tasked with developing and deploying a ruby command line application or rails web application every 1-2 weeks in teams of 2-4 other developers in training
• Key projects included a csv-parsing ruby CLI and singleton datastore, a redesign of the donorshoose.com homepage written in spine.js, a service-backed real-time chat client, and a mastery project that displayed a realtime feed of tweets about LivingSocial deals with a user’s corresponding Klout score as a metric for social influence
• Delivered 6+ lightning talks on topics such as division in binary, Webkit, Ember.js, and Django

Dec 2011 – Mar 2012 · 3 mos

Jul 2008 – Jun 2009 · 11 mos