Experience
2019 — Now
2019 — Now
New York City Metropolitan Area
Lead of the Clearing & Settlement Operations Engineering (CSC-OpsEng) team.
2018 — 2019
Greater New York City Area
* Responsible for in-house distributed systems that manage Tower's trading platforms, including creation, configuration, scheduling, and monitoring.
* Owner of distributed metrics gathering system, responsible for capturing KPIs from various applications for trading platform teams, risk management, networking, and others.
* Contributed bug fixes and new features to open source projects used in metrics gathering.
* Maintained several software libraries in multiple languages including Go, Java, Python
* Mentored junior developers and ensured quality through careful code reviews.
Skills: Go, Protocol Buffers, Postgres, IP Multicast, Python, Java, Jenkins, Bash
2007 — 2018
New York City Metropolitan Area
* Co-founder of startup responsible for creating iOS apps generating over $1.00M in GMV.
* Created apps that were featured on the App Store and have achieved #1 grossing position.
* Twelve self-published applications each with tens of thousands of daily active users.
* Owner of backend applications, deployment automation, and server configurations.
* Worked in a team of two to develop and deliver high quality, pixel perfect user interfaces.
Skills: Swift, Objective-C, PHP, MySQL, Postgres, Memcached, Gearman, Ansible, Bash, NGINX
2017 — 2018
2017 — 2018
New York City Metropolitan Area
* Oversaw development and release of Zipari's flagship mobile product on iOS, providing secure access to claims, billing, telemedicine, and live support for 3.8M Horizon BCBSNJ customers, securing a 5-year contract between Horizon and Zipari.
* Using best practices in Swift, ensured a crash-free, well-maintainable codebase to allow ease in customization for individual clients.
* Worked closely with Android team to ensure a seamless cross-platform experience.
* Automated delivery of beta builds to clients and releases to Apple's App Store.
* Assisted multiple teams with interviewing, code reviews, and architecture reviews.
Skills: Swift, Jenkins, Bash
2014 — 2017
2014 — 2017
New York City Metropolitan Area
* Rewrote third-party developed iPhone app to provide an experience more in-line with branding, enabling over $100M GMV in bids across hundreds of auctions.
* Modernized flagship silent bidding kiosk iPad app by migrating from pre-ARC to modern Objective-C.
* Enabled large live auctions with hundreds of lots by resolving kiosk memory and performance issues.
* Migrated legacy mobile backends in PHP to newer Django monolith to unify web and mobile APIs.
* Assumed dev-ops duties including automation of deployments to AWS, Chef recipes, Fabric (python) configurations.
* Automated creation of local development environments using Ansible and Vagrant.
* Maintained frontend and backend continuous-integration pipelines.
* Regularly resolved issues relating to database corruptions and traffic spikes.
Skills: Objective-c, Python, PHP, MySQL, AWS, Chef, Ansible, Vagrant, Fabric, NGINX, Apache
Education
North Carolina State University
BS, Computer Science
2002 — 2007