Resume
Experience
April 2021 - Present
DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING
Building a better world for dogs and their people

New York, NY
2019 - 2021
ENGINEERING MANAGER

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

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
Digital Analytics