• As a founding engineer, I helped design and build core services to support the company’s flagship products from the ground up

• As project lead, served as engineering representative working with Product and Design teams from requirements gathering, to solution ideation, to implementation and release

• Refactored the core Automated Student Placement Service improving its speed by more than 10x contributing to an increase in customer retention and sales

• Defined service boundaries between Abl’s Data Science platform and core application services. Additionally, designed and built an abstracted API by leveraging dynamic Active Record models for the relevant services allowing the Frontend and Data Science teams to iterate on visualizations with minimal friction

• Built ETL services to support bidirectional data transfers between Abl and external data sources while ensuring data integrity

• Supported Data Science work by ensuring data consistency and hygiene

• Routinely performed security and performance critical library and framework upgrades

• Introduced, advocated for, and championed the team’s technical spec and documentation processes

• Contributed to the design of the company interview process for Software Engineers, Designer and

Data Scientists

• Built the Ripple enterprise (Ripple Connect) payment processing and pre-transaction messaging orchestration service in Node.js

• Designed, built and owned load simulation software for benchmarking and revealing complex bugs throughout the Connect stack

• Identified and fixed bottlenecks using Linux Perf and Flamecharts to improve Transactions Per Second

• Contributed to gatewayd, Ripple’s open-source gateway software and built a Bitcoin bridge plug-in

• Collaborated across the engineering team on code reviews to ensure work was clean, DRY and modular

• Wrote documentation, unit and integration tests

• Built deployment and configuration tools using Ansible and Bash

• Followed Agile Software Development methodologies

• Shipped 5 high-traffic localized sites supporting 12 languages, 1.5 MM monthly unique visitors

• Developed and owned Nitro’s marketing oriented client-side JavaScript library

• Integrated third-party e-commerce (Cleverbridge) and support (Zendesk) APIs

• Mentored junior team members

• Collaborated with data scientists and business analysts to flesh out specs prior to development

• Created wireframes from user stories and functional requirements

• Developed dashboards to visualize large amounts of Digital TV data to analyze audience viewing patterns using Google Charts JavaScript API

• Clients: EMC (Remote), Time Warner Cable (On-site)