Principal Software Engineer at Slice

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Acted as technical lead for fulfillment operations, which was responsible for all tools ensuring order fulfillment and restaurant compensation. Helped define scope and provided technical guidance to the engineers on the team. Led various projects to ensure the reliability of the application. Performed cross-team code reviews, defined standards and aided in the hiring of engineers.

Slice

Principal Software Engineer

Acted as technical lead for hub operations, a role that includes system design, visual design and implementation of the order fulfillment applications. Built the <a href="http://maple.com">maple.com</a> website, mobile web and Android applications. Built a server provisioning system and integrated a continuous integration server. Defined application requirements and involved in UX design. Performed code reviews. Aided fellow engineers in application design. Assisted in hiring engineers.

Maple

Meetup

Senior Software Engineer

Introduced dev ops processes to engineering team. Built a provisioning system to ensure that software and configurations are consistent across all development environments, to aid in software rollouts and to ease team growth. Integrated Jenkins into the development workflow to allow push button deploys to staging and production, and continuous integration into the development environment. Rebuilt the messaging platform to resolve performance failures. Defined technical interviewing process.

Maker's Row

Acted as lead engineer on the site conversion team, which was primarily responsible for redesigning and optimizing the checkout flow. Wrote credit card processing application to interact with Merchant e-Solutions. Automated setup of developer workstations and environments, including database migration and deployment. Performed code reviews and conducted interviews.

Warby Parker

Lead Software Engineer

Identified and corrected inefficiencies in development processes. Developed a copy editing application, which provides non-developers with the ability to modify a website's copy without requiring developer support. Built tools for easily generating site screenshots for stakeholder review. Acted as technical lead on all web-based projects.

McCann New York

Implemented the OpenSocial container specification within the Interactive One social networking sites. Developed an ORM library for mapping objects to queries while still maintaining control of the queries. Developed search application using Elasticsearch and Disco, a MapReduce framework. Applied Google's SEO best practices to various areas of the sites: sitemaps, rss feeds, relevant and descriptive titles, canonical urls, etc... Identified and fixed several XSS vulnerabilities.

Interactive One

Developed search-related applications for <a href="http://nytimes.com">nytimes.com</a>. Implemented the New York Times site search and vertical searches using Google's Custom Search Engine. Created conceptualization and categorization services for extracting semantic information.

The New York Times

Software Engineer

Acted as the technical lead on dating products, which generated several million in revenue per year. Mentored junior engineers. Developed a transaction (billing) application to interface with various payment gateways. Developed the <a href="http://Blackplanet.com">Blackplanet.com</a> music site.

Community Connect Inc

Senior Developer

Managed a team of five engineers responsible for maintaining <a href="http://JobDirect.com">JobDirect.com</a>. Responsible for all development rollouts. Built the recruiter and e-commerce portions of the website.

Adam Gschwender

Adam Gschwender