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Resume

Experience

April 2021 - Present

DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING

Building a better world for dogs and their people

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New York, NY

2019 - 2021

ENGINEERING MANAGER

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New York, NY

I've managed several teams of 5-7 engineers as we work to introduce new customer and business facing functionality to the web and mobile eCommerce experience of this direct-to-consumer menswear brand.

Certified Leader and practitioner of the Scalable Agile Framework (SAFe). Product Owner and technical lead of several key business initiatives including a high risk migration of 3rd Party Logistics (distribution center) partners. Champion of service and event oriented architecture, as we work to decompose a large Rails monolith into individually deployable & scalable microservices and serverless applications, integrated via Kafka messaging bus and provisioned with infrastructure as code. Leader of DevOps best practices and culture, revamped on-call schedule and incident response plan, introduced the MALT stack (Metrics, Alerting, Logging, Tracing), as well as monthly Lunch & Learns and tech book club. I work closely with our recruiting team to optimize our hiring pipeline, formalize our candidate criteria and assessment, and attract & retain brilliant engineers.

2013 - 2018

DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING

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San Francisco

Led the entire engineering side of the organization, including DevOps, Backend/Frontend web development, native iOS/Android app development, and QA. Led a complete rewrite, migration and release of our 17MM-user site/infrastructure in 2015. Brought monthly hosting spend from $150k+/month to $30k/month, oversaw revenue initiatives that turned an $8MM burn rate into $10MM of annual net revenue. Built remote low-cost high-output engineering team and established physical office space in Kiev, Ukraine. Responsible for all hiring, code review, daily standups, sprint planning, development/infrastructure/partner decisions, and budget planning/oversight for 20 person team. Designed, documented, and implemented countless API endpoints, backend services, and user-facing features.

Education

2003 - 2007

Central CT State University

BS - Computer Science Honors

New Britain, Connecticut

President, Computer Science Club

Founder, Music Appreciation Club

Member, UPE Computer Science Honors Society

Web Editor/Staff Writer, The Recorder Student Newspaper

Student Member, IEEE and ACM

Professional skillset

Entrepreneurial Mindset

Go-to-Market Planning

Teamwork & Collaboration

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