Résumé

Director, Software Engineering

• Directed all aspects of a cross-functional engineering department and oversaw development of projects for the flagship consumer web aplication.
• Responsible for 7 direct reports and managed a team of 30 software engineers, test engineers, product managers, UX and data scientists we rebuilt the core components of the infrastructure and client applications on a new tech stack in Ruby/Rails, React, NodeJS all in AWS.
• Worked with security to ensure SOX compliance.
• Established development processes and technical infrastructure to support continuous deployment.

Technical Lead - Dealer Products

• Led multiple teams including mobile, front-end, API, and legacy support across the country to build new features and support existing ones for analysis and management of dealership data within the TrueCar architecture.
• Led effort to create a new engineering team in Austin, TX hiring 10 software engineers of varied experience levels, training and guiding them to be efficient and productive contributors at TrueCar.
• Architected a rebuild of multiple core technology components on a new software stack using Ruby, Rails, React, NodeJS, AWS and Docker as well as orchestrating the switch to the new technology stack.
• Mentored team members on effective software development practices including Agile, Gitflow, TDD, and proper code hygiene.
• Developed and maintained a Flask web application dependent on multiple RESTful web services.
• Led development on multiple projects creating advanced front end interfaces using Backbone, Coffeescript and Bootstrap. Integrated with data pipelines involving Elasticsearch, Hadoop, HDFS, MySQL, MSSQL and Redis.
• Worked with multiple teams to refactor projects to support continuous integration including integrating with New Relic, Jira, and internal Devops applications, updating Jenkins build jobs and working out development processes to ease the transition to CI.
• Worked closely with product management to plan feature releases and business requirements.

Senior Software Developer

• Led development on multiple projects creating advanced front end interfaces using Backbone, Coffeescript and Bootstrap. Integrated with data pipelines involving Elasticsearch, Hadoop, HDFS, MySQL, MSSQL and Redis.
• Worked with multiple teams to refactor projects to support continuous integration including integrating with New Relic, Jira, and internal Devops applications, updating Jenkins build jobs and working out development processes to ease the transition to CI.
• Worked closely with product management to plan feature releases and business requirements.

Senior Web Developer

• Managed three direct reports.
• Worked closely with a client to define and architect a regulatory management web application to streamline the work flow for a medical device manufacturer and the FDA. Followed strict corporate guidelines, which involved encrypting PDF files using secure certificates and adhering to best practices as defined by OWASP. The site passed a third party security audit and was approved for public use.
• Architected and led a development team for a web-based EPUB 3 application using Zend 2, React, HTML5 technologies and a Grunt build process for a large educational publisher to distribute their books on mobile and desktop platforms. Developed a RESTful API for the client's other web properties to integrate for SSO, data propagation and using books outside the core system.
• Led the development of an e-commerce / CMS site using PHP and Drupal for a national award-winning publisher. Wrote custom PHP Drupal plugin to consume a real-time XML feed for integration with backend accounting system.
• Designed a distributed web hosting architecture on AWS using the EC2 API and Python boto/Fabric scripts automatic deployment and configuration of application servers with plans for fully automatic infrastructure rebuilds.
• Analyzed historical traffic data and business intelligence for a client to estimate future requirements for core-product production server environments. Modeled site usage profiles to generate and run realistic load tests using the SOASTA Cloud test environment. Made recommendations based on performance data for optimizations (fast-cgi, XCache, Percona MySQL).

Web Developer

• Acted as lead developer of a marketplace website and service used by 24 major U.S. newspapers. Using a clear and consistent PHP architecture, created a profitable product that was easily scalable and adaptable.
• Designed and programmed a Samsung Internet@TV Newspaper app for La Repubblica, Italy's second largest newspaper. Found innovative solutions to overcome constraints such as limited memory, CPU, bandwidth and a non-standard browser.
• Planned and implemented a tracking infrastructure for collecting, storing and post-processing reader behaviors. By using database normalization and PHP optimization, I designed a system capable of handling 10 million+ records per day.
• Developed a data parser framework in PHP to accept non-standard newspaper page data provided by many different customers' editorial systems.

Information Technology Manager

• Redesigned and programmed the company website using HTML/CSS/Javascript. Wrote software (Javascript and Python) for tracking, reporting and analyzing of site traffic and Google Ad conversions.
• Designed, implemented and supported a MySQL database with millions of records using a Javascript front-end framework and developed Python desktop applications for database integration with web-based data sources.
• Consolidated and automated marketing data acquisition using custom software written in Python and developed new data analysis techniques.

Information Technology Internship