Shaker Heights High School

Bowdoin College

Experienced full stack web developer & product consultant.

I help companies hit their key metrics through high-quality web development, product guidance, and growth tactics.

 - Worked with clients to flesh out their ideas into product specs and a backlog of development tasks
 - Built the backend and frontend of various web applications for clients (mostly using Python, Flask, Angular and Postgres)
 - Setup the database, load balancers, web servers, cache servers and static file hosting, as necessary (mostly on Amazon Web Services or Heroku)
 - Integrated the web applications with private, in-house APIs, as necessary (some client-side, some server-side)
 - Also built several web scrapers for clients, including sports betting websites and several 1MM+ product scrapes of amazon.com

Self-Employed

Independent Full Stack Product Developer

Teaching nights and weekends classes at General Assembly, helping students break into web development.

General Assembly

Instructor

First employee at an ad-tech startup, focusing on monetization, user acquisition and product design. 

 - Employee #1 at an ad-tech startup founded by two MIT grads, focused on designing and building high-performance system
 - Systems that I built processed 1000 requests/second in the ad server (nginx), handled dozens of API integrations simultaneously and managed several GB of daily logfiles
 - Worked with Apache Kafka, Apache Hive, Amazon Redshift and Cloudera as "Big Data" tools for our log files
 - Wrote Python scripts to manage the data pipeline and other administrative tasks
 - Built Chrome extensions (JS) and backing web applications (PHP, Ruby on Rails) to support user growth objectives
 - Wrote product and technical specifications for overseas developers and worked with them to ensure delievered code was up to standards
 - Mentored junior developers as the team grew
 - Introduced and led a weekly "Tech Talk" series to encourage knowledge sharing across the dev team

Hartley Brody