Experience
2025 — Now
2023 — 2025
• Led a cross-discipline team of 5 developers, a designer, and project manager to architect, build, and maintain cross-platform React Native applications for over 10 distinct company intellectual properties.
• I architected and currently maintain a GraphQL proxy API in AWS that optimizes network requests to reduce data transfer and usage by 90% for mobile users.
• Implemented automated build/deploy/release strategies using CI/CD tools like Fastlane and Github Actions to reduce time-to-market after feature completion.
• Developed and deployed a microservice written in Go (Golang) for real-time event updates using AWS SQS message queues, allowing ALL users (mobile and web) the ability to see live score updates without needing to manually or programmatically refresh.
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
• Co-led the initiative to bring the Grindr mobile app experience to the web as a browser-based version of the popular LGBTQ+ dating app. This served as a secondary source of revenue for the company, as well as providing a more discrete way for our customers to use the platform/service in places where simply having the app on your device is unsafe and possibly illegal.
• I personally built/implemented features such as Incognito Mode, onboarding and authentication fl ow, subscription paywall, and paywalled Advanced Filtering features.
• Led the initiative to implement Playwright end-to-end testing to reduce potential release bugs, increase test coverage, as well as to reduce time-to-market through the QA process by assisting the QA team with test results and artifacts.
React, Typescript, HTML, CSS, Jest, Playwright, Styled Components, Mobx, Material UI, Node APIs, Web Workers, REST, Websockets, Authentication gateways, Docker, Traefik gateways, Terraform, AWS S3/Lambda, Github, Github Actions, code reviews, PR reviews, planning poker, Jira, web development best practices, Web APIs, SPA, DynamoDB, MySQL, Kubernetes
2020 — 2022
• Led a team of 8 engineers in developing Bushel Wallet™, a revolutionary electronic payment method for the Ag industry. This team was full stack, including one UI designer and one BA. Managed bi-weekly 1:1's, set OKRs, and ensured feature reqs were complete for SOC2 compliance and integrations with Plaid and Dwolla.
• Architected the React Native mobile app for iOS and Android, leveraging Figma for UI/UX design and CI/CD pipeline in Azure Devops.
• Briefly worked with the SSO/Authentication team to implement security features we required for our Bushel Wallet ™ go-to-market strategy such as 2FA and out-of-band contact method verifi cation. We accomplished this by authoring plugins for Keycloak, our SSO server application, all written in Java and Kotlin.
Typescript, React, React Native, Figma, CSS animations, micro-interactions, iOS, Swift, Android, Kotlin,
Java, Spring Boot, Ktor, Keycloak, microservices, Azure Devops, Azure Pipelines, Jira
2020 — 2020
2020 — 2020
Dallas, Texas
This position had multiple roles:
• Development: supported multiple client websites built in Drupal, Wordpress, Craft CMS, React, Gatsby, NextJS, Vue, and other frameworks / CMS' for all agency project-based and retainer-based web and interactive projects
• New business: scoped and estimated new work for new and existing clients, productizing certain web services such as SEO / ADA audits (with remediation) and CRM integrations with Hubspot and Zoho.
• Project / People Management: tracking issues and worked hours in the Atlassian ecosystem (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence), meetings with dedicated project manager to set timelines and expectations of our developers, daily standups, weekly bandwidth and resource allocation, and personnel issues. Led an Agile SCRUM-based team of 4 developers, one UX/UI Designer, one project manager, as well as various numbers of independent contractors to accomplish daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
Despite the "director" title, this was a very hands-on role that wore many hats:
• Development: supported multiple client websites built in various backend and frontend frameworks / CMS' for all agency project-based and retainer-based web and interactive projects.
• New business: scoped and estimated new work for new and existing clients, productizing certain web services such as SEO / ADA audits (with remediation) and CRM integrations with Hubspot and Zoho.
• Project / People Management: tracked issues and reported hours of my direct reports, meetings with dedicated project managers to set timelines and expectations of our developers, daily standups, weekly bandwidth and resource allocation, and personnel issues with confl ict resolution.
Education
University of Southern California
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
2013 — 2016
Texas Christian University
Bachelor of Art
2008 — 2011