Senior Web Engineer and Technology Leader with a proven track record of delivering high-impact, scalable products and fostering cross-functional team success. Known for breaking down complex challenges into manageable, strategic solutions, with a process-driven approach that emphasizes quality and efficiency.
A dedicated advocate for agile development, effective team collaboration, and mentorship, I’m passionate about guiding teams to adopt industry-leading practices that drive innovation. Eager to contribute to and lead teams that embrace agile principles and continuously push the boundaries of modern software development.
Support the development of a new mobile first application for sales representatives in the field. Created a culture of industry best practices for software delivery including test-driven development with JavaScript, pair programming and user-story focused development.
Responsible for architecting and building a web application from a behavior model that generates KPIs from multiple data sources for individuals and teams. Other functions included
Responsible for an e-commerce store grossing $10M in annual sales. Implemented a custom build and deployment process for rapid, low-touch releases. Leveraged both REST and GraphQL APIs to build a custom data warehouse as well as a variety of back-end tools. Rolled out new initiatives and processes to improve team performance centered around agile development best practices. Mentored other team members on both career and skill development.
Contract full-stack web developer specializing in Ruby/Rails frameworks. Designed and developed API for multiple web apps (front and back-end). Implemented agile principals for dev teams. Mentored junior developers and established Scrum workflows. Facilitated design sprints to address challenging team roadblocks. Spearheaded initiatives through use of quarterly OKRs. Implemented the release management process for several repositories. Led development team to improved release cycles which resulted in better releases at more regular intervals.
Computer science major. Business minor.
Built an implementation of a behavior model that generated KPIs for users based on message data from social services like Slack and Google and AI sentiment analysis.
Designed and built custom data warehouse of Shopify sales data to interface with business intelligence tools, providing greater flexibility and cost savings compared to vendor offerings.
Update and modernize reporting functionality of a Rails application using BDD best practices with RSpec and Cucumber for a non-profit that works to eradicate slave labor in the modern world by tracking and reporting on UK companies and their supply chains.
Built and maintained licensing server for major WordPress membership plugin using Padrino and Heroku pipelines. Managed product development and release management.
Designed and built Angular/Express.js web app integrating Stripe Connect for buy button payments. Maintained backend Node/Mongo stack. Setup Heroku pipelines for testing, staging and production deployment.
5+ years leading and mentoring developers. Building teams from the ground up and implementing industry best practices. Optimizing processes and workflows to ship high-quality code consistently and efficiently.
11+ years developing web applications with a focus on Rails for statups. Skills and knowledge to design, architect and build well tested, modern web applications.
Experience with a large variety of web stack technologies including Ruby, Rails, Node.js, Go (Golang), JavaScript, React, Angular, Ionic, Mapbox, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Microservices, git, Vim, RSpec, Cucumber, TDD and BDD.
Experience also building and integrating applications with REST APIs for social and payment services.
Experience building and managing deployment platforms and technologies including Heroku, AWS, Chef, Vagrant and Docker.
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