Experience
2023 — Now
2023 — Now
New York, New York, United States
2013 — Now
2013 — Now
The Startup Leadership Program (SLP) is a highly selective, 60-hour, 6-month world-class training program and lifetime network for outstanding founders and innovators. SLP Fellows have founded 700 companies that have raised $370 million.
2021 — 2023
2021 — 2023
• Developed gamified time management tool and chatbot for agile teams and remote organizations via customizable conversational daily reports.
• Launched Discord module of chatbot, a Django Rest Framework app for slash commands, an asynchronous Python micro service for message ingestion over web socket, and Celery task service for scheduling http requests that obey third party rate limiting. Responsible for DB schema redesign and new schemas. Had ownership of backend, upkeep, and site reliability.
• Refactored Slack MVP to be scalable and modular, growing service from 1 server to 50+.
• Developed user retention feature for one click team matching and continued play.
• Simplified user onboarding to reporting to be a 2-step OAuth process, down from 8 steps.
• Worked directly with CTO, defining project direction and feature prioritization.
• Expanded Devops, established the use of Black, JsPrettier, Git templates, and Pre-commit.
2020 — 2021
2020 — 2021
• Developed Django backend around client-provided front end mock-ups with Django Rest Framework API endpoints authenticated with JWT and connected to a React front end for a property management platform. Delivered a test-driven solution with accompanying unit tests. Integrated JWT Django All Auth with the requested authentication schema. The client followed up with an additional project to expand API endpoints.
2020 — 2021
2020 — 2021
• Designed and developed a responsive cross platform React Native app for family care coordination, real time messaging, scheduling, and shared notes.
• Developed Django Rest Framework powered app to provides families with customizable privacy and sharing making it easy to share with family, friends, and paid caregivers.Founder / Full Stack Developer
Education
The Johns Hopkins University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
2010 — 2014
Ross School