Radford University

Software Engineer at Rejoiner

Hired and trained developers. Optimized backend services to improve throughput on various services by 10-1,000X. Reduced AWS bill by 20% by tracking down unused resources and suboptimal queries. Improved engineering team throughput by implementing code review process, deployment protocols, zero-downtime deploys, and post-deploy audits. Consolidated all administrative tasks to a single, common interface. Added automated testing pipeline. Solved long-standing problems related to background task scheduling and disaster recovery.

Rejoiner

Software Engineer

I've been scaling software, systems and development pipelines for over 10 years.  Now I'm doing that as a consultant for my new endeavor, Framework Labs.

Framework Labs

Software and Systems Engineer

Achieved reduction in test suite execution time by 25%.  Added memory profiling capabilities to background execution tasks.  Added A/B testing based on google analytics for emails and landing pages.  Configured Docker-based CircleCI automated testing.  Achieved 100x reduction in execution times for several background tasks to remedy queue congestion issues.

ZeroCater

Automated the deployment of company software systems.

Designed and developed a number of distributed systems, including Content Tracker, developed using Python, Django, and Tornado, deployed in AWS and Google Cloud environments, backed by Postgres and Redis.

Developed multi-level cache to prevent stale data and mitigate downtime risk during disaster recovery.

Designed a monitoring environment for key systems.

Priceonomics Inc

Added tests and automated deployment of Ruby-on-Rails application.

Optimized application code and architecture to enable to application to run on commodity virtual servers.

Developed XSLT pipeline for print-to-web processing of medical journals.

LightCastle Technical Consulting

Developed distributed pipeline for processing real estate data using Ruby, Perl and Postgres

Automated system deployment and testing

Released open-source projects, Corrigible,
which DRYs up Ansible worksheets for collections of related server automation tasks, and Sadie, which minimizes work performed during multi-pass data processing.

LandMetrics

Founder

Configured a network monitoring service using Zabbix.

Maintained multiple systems for the Virginia Department of Forestry and several municipal governments.

Middle River Hosting Technologies, LLC

Member, Administrator

Developed several web-based geographic information systems using ESRI ArcIMS, Coldfusion,
Javascript, and MS SQL Server.

Designed and implemented web-based emergency operations application for real-time overview
of statewide hospital resources using Coldfusion, Javascript, and MS SQL Server.

Developed prototype applications using ArcSDE and PostGIS.

Terralogic

Lead Developer, Systems Engineer and Administrator

Developed a system which allowed parents to watch their children in daycare centers via the web using PHP, Javascript, and MySQL.

Added web-spidering feature to a ship-to-shore communications service.

Helped Harvard and Woods Hole design a data warehouse for a large fish population study.