As Principal Engineer at Rockets of Awesome, I helped drive eCommerce platform growth and stability, for an amazing brand of boutique, subscription-based apparel for kids.

Lots of cool things happened here: A/B test-driven feature releases; TDD and Test Automation; Thorough design exploration.

Stack: RoR, React, Redux, ES6 JavaScript, Mocha, Node JS, Git, REST, NPM, Babel, Webpack.

Highly successful financial advisor platform LearnVest, in Manhattan, NY, (acquired by Northwestern Mutual) provided exciting opportunities to further my career as Senior Software Engineer in an Agile environment.

Primary technologies used: Git, Node JS, REST, Express, NPM, ES6, React, Babel, Webpack, Gulp, Mocha, Jira

Highlights:

* Tech Lead on internal product to create a safe, stand alone, encrypted system to strengthen

B to C relationship at northwesternmutual.com

* Tech Lead coordinating internal and external teams to help integrate several new client platform products into northwesternmutual.com

* Senior Developer on various tasks for learnvest.com

2014 : Software Engineer Manager for Desktop Client Application Group. Led skilled team of front-end developers responsible for creating, updating, and maintaining desktop version of most successful Virtual Casino games app on Facebook. Worked closely with Design, QA, Production, and Marketing in an Agile environment to produce and deploy many successful aspects of the Casino. Focused heavily on leadership, management, hiring, and mentoring.

2013 : Lead Client Software Architect for Desktop Client Application. Created scalable, modular, event-driven structures to host games developed both internally and published externally. Successfully handled asynchronous, modular plug-in design challenges such as audio management, 3rd-party software integration, and managed shared resource deployment.

2011-2013 : Senior Developer for Desktop Client Application. Implemented application components for virtual Casino UI, games and mini-games, lobbies, and meta experiences.

Highlights:

• Major contributor to the Casino Client Application, both before and after acquisition. DoubleDown was successfully sold to International Game Technology (IGT) for over $500M.

• Personally developed Desktop Client portal to publish hundreds of IGT games through our virtual Casino, which resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue.

• DoubleDown Casino is now the highest grossing application on Facebook, achieving 2 million + Daily Active Users (DAU).

Flash/ActionScript 3 Developer, Web Developer for University of Phoenix www.phoenix.edu.