Education
B.S. Computer Science, Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania, December 2007
Summary
Experienced software engineer with a strong bias to shipping. Versed in many popular technologies. Interested in continually ensuring that the teams I work with are having the highest impact possible and building the next most important feature.
Experience
Software Engineer, Google, Cambridge, MA (January 2017 – present)
- TBD
Software Engineer, Twitter, Cambridge, MA (January 2014 – 2017)
- Responsible for inviting the first 1000 customers to Fabric at Twitter's inaugural developer conference
- Launched get.fabric.io, the logged out experience for Fabric
- Launched answers.io, the marketing site for Twitter's Mobile Analytics product
- Launched get.digits.com, the logged out experience for Twitter's Mobile Identity product
- Mentored new team mates joining the Fabric Growth team
- Increased conversions from signup to confirmation by 70% for new Fabric customers
Co-Founder, ZeroPush, Philadelphia, PA (January 2013 – September 2015)
- ZeroPush was acquired by Twitter in September 2015
- Bootstrapped a successful push notification platform focused on building great tools for developers
- Became a Heroku add-on provider allowing one click ZeroPush signup for Heroku customers
Co-Founder, Symmetric Infinity LLC, Philadelphia, PA (January 2013 – September 2015)
- Symmetric Infinity was acquired by Twitter in September 2015
- Worked with clients in various industries to implement business solutions
- Sponsored local development community activities
VP Mobile Engineering, appRenaissance LLC, Philadelphia, PA (June 2011 – September 2012)
- Implemented Agile project workflows to maximize client value
- Made technology decisions to minimize cost and maximize scalability
- Developed and Deployed multiple client applications to the Apple App Store
- Built backend services to support mobile client applications
Software Engineer, Infor Global Solutions, Malvern, PA (June 2009 – June 2011)
- Designed and built a Digital Asset Management component for LOB applications in Silverlight
- Wrote an intelligent Silverlight file upload control and corresponding supportive services
- Established internal best practices design patterns, third-party framework usage, and unit testing
- Authored a proof of concept for migrating an existing financial suite to a modern UI technology
- Developed a Windows Phone 7 client application, to integrate with an existing enterprise backend
Applications Developer, Oracle Corp, Chester, PA (October 2007 – June 2009)
- Participated in the development of the Oracle Insurance Shared Rules Engine
- Implemented dynamic runtime Java source code generation, compilation, and execution
- Executed a continuous integration strategy utilizing Ant, JUnit and Hudson
- Mentored less experienced team members
- Drafted/Published documentation regarding QA technical initiatives/procedures
- Acted as manager, overseeing QA development resources, to ensure high quality quarterly releases
- Authored design and implementation of internal applications and utilities
- Managed software builds/deploys for 11 QA environments, continuously maintaining high availability
- Worked with offshore contractors to coordinate QA efforts for quarterly certification
Technology
- Application Servers, Apache, Nginx, Passenger, Unicorn
- Development Tools, Chef, Git, Rails, Vim, XCode
- Operating Systems, OS X, Linux variants, UNIX
- Programming Languages, Bash, C, C#, Java, Objective-C, Python, Ruby
- RDBMS, MySQL, Postgresql
- Foreign Languages, Spanish