Resume

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I’m a software engineer with over 8 years of experience solving complex business problems that save time and money through leadership, collaboration and software automation at scale.

Experience

Sigma Squared

Senior Software Engineer (August 2023 - Current)

Skills: React, Node.js, AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, Fargate), Docker, Data visualization

Bitcoin Depot

Lead Engineer (May 2023 - August 2023)

Impact: lead the delivery of a custom ticket management system for reducing the time to resolve Bitcoin ATM alerts and have a strong audit trail for tracking compliance. Note: there were strong security and compliance requirements that prevented us from using third-party tools like Jira or Zendesk for this.

Skills: React, Node.js, Docker, Cryptocurrency

Amazon

Frontend Engineer (May 2022 - May 2023)

Impact: saved Amazon millions of dollars and months of developer effort each year by ensuring all North American and European Amazon retail marketplaces, Prime Video, and Fire TV were legally-compliant with the GDPR and new CCBA privacy laws.

Skills: React, JSP, Java Spring, NoSQL, AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, S3)

Amazon Web Services

Frontend Engineer/Lead consultant (May 2020 - May 2022)

Impact: saved a pharmaceutical company over 10 million dollars and 25 million hours of labor each year with an automated translation solution. Automated complex accruals and “chargebacks” for 3 enterprise customers that owned thousands of AWS accounts and spent over 10 million dollars each month.

Skills: React, Node, NoSQL, AWS (Lambda, Textract, Translate, Lambda, S3, SQS, DynamoDB, Cognito, CloudFront, Athena)

Certifications: Professional DevOps Engineer, Professional Solutions Architect, Associate Developer, Associate SysOps Administrator, Associate Solutions Architect, Cloud Practitioner

Revel Gatherings

QA Engineer - Part-time (May 2022 - Jan 2023)

Impact: setup a stable integration testing suite to save hours of developer time each week debugging unstable tests

Skills: React, TypeScript, Cypress

Make School

Frontend Engineer (Oct 2018 - May 2020)

Impact: ensured over 400 students learned software engineering and received jobs with a six- figure salary by building education software for students and staff, including applications for managing attendance, online courses, grades and financial aid.

Skills: React, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, SQL, PostgreSQL

Beastgrip

SVP of Business Development and Engineering (Jan 2015 - Oct 2018)

Impact: raised over $250,000 through crowd-funding by writing all product, website and marketing content. Built relationships with Apple, Moment, Lumecube and Academy award- winning directors that resulted in several feature-length films and music videos. Led engineering team of 5 on the Beastcam iOS application and a custom e-commerce platform.

Skills: React, Node, jQuery, AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, CodePipeline, RDS, CloudFront)

Open source

Accomplishments: created an official Amazon Location Service code sample, built a documentation site for Mail For Good, released 4 NPM packages and am currently building an open source event management platform called Cobra Events.

Skills: Hugo, TypeScript, JavaScript, Svelte, Node, NoSQL, AWS (Amplify, S3, API Gateway, CloudFront, DynamoDB, Lambda)