Senior product-focused backend engineer on a Ruby on Rails monolith supporting enterprise insurance brokers and carriers. Worked primarily on carrier integrations, ingestion pipelines, and authentication.

• Led technical design and implementation of enterprise SSO using WorkOS, serving as primary owner for the integration.

• Integrated SAML-based IdPs via WorkOS, building the Rails-side authentication flow, user provisioning, and role/permission mapping.

• Worked on the smart proposal quote ingestion flow, which uses AWS Lambda and Textract to extract data from carrier PDFs, transform it, and persist it into Postgres (AWS RDS).

• Mentored a junior engineer, providing guidance on Rails patterns, system design, and production debugging.

• Core contributor to Threeflow’s first carrier API integration with Guardian, one of the company’s largest and most strategic carriers.

• Built bidirectional REST API integrations to send RFPs to Guardian and ingest proposals and bids back into Threeflow.

• Implemented data mapping and normalization layers to translate external carrier data into internal domain models.

• Used Sidekiq for background processing, including retries and error handling for long-running and failure-prone workflows.

• Helped replace manual, multi-day data entry with automated processing that completes in seconds.

Responsibilities:

• Build features, update, upgrade, and maintain the cart and checkout experience at Tuft & Needle, Serta, and Beautyrest. This included working with Stripe and PayPal API integration.

• Key player in helping T&N launch monthly promotions. Key player in upgrading and maintaining promotion's admin tool. Helped with migration to GraphQL endpoints. Monthly promotions are one of the main drivers of revenue for T&N. Helps keep T&N stay competitive with Purple and Casper.

• Implemented product bundle promotions. Bundle promotions are different as they calculate discounts at the cart level versus the item level. These promotions help the business to always have a running promotion as bundle promotions are not subject to the same legal restrictions as order or item promotions.

• Key player in backend implementation of Express PayPal for Tuft & Needle, Serta, and Beautyrest. This helps drive conversion rate.

• Key player in backend implementation of AfterPay payment method, and Clyde mattress insurance offering for T&N. This helps drive conversion rate.

• Optimization work on checkout experience to increase conversion rate.

• Work with product/project managers and stakeholders to make recommendations about what can help drive business objectives.

Responsibilities include:

• Upgrading and maintaining Itron's consumer portal. Portal is a front end Backbone.js application.

• Upgrading and maintaining Ruby on Rails API endpoints.

• Creating, upgrading, and maintaining native iOS Hybrid Application. Native hybrid app is built using Swift 2+ and iOS 9.3.+.

• Help optimize and maintain elephantine client management and energy data analytics (Ruby on Rails) enterprise software suite.

Responsibilities include:

• Upgrading and maintaining Comverge's consumer portal. Portal is a front end Backbone.js application.

• Upgrading and maintaining Ruby on Rails API endpoint

• Creating, upgrading, and maintaining native iOS Hybrid Application. Native hybrid app is built using Swift 2+ and iOS 9.3.+.

Sparkrelief.org (aka Sparkable) is a nonprofit company that makes software for other nonprofits in the disaster relief industry to use.

• Developed the Sparktime.org application utilizing Ruby on Rails in a Heroku/PostgreSQL environment.

• Sparktime is a Ruby on Rails volunteer tracking application that helps nonprofits sign up and keep track of their volunteer hours through phone texts.

• Sparktime will help nonprofits and state officials provide proof of volunteer work to the federal government when disaster aid is needed.