Experience
Saatva Mattress - Software Engineering Support Manager
January 2021 - Present
- Lead the support team which was available 24x7 that handles all technical issues with their front-end web application, their production logistics platform and all apps in between.
- Took part in all hiring, mentoring and career development of all new engineering employees both domestic or international.
- Worked directly with the architecture team as a contributing member on proof-of-concept development to solution planning.
- Played a key role in optimizing the engineering departments development cycle and develop and enforce coding standards among all contributing developers.
- Evaluated all 3rd party application integrations from a support perspective in order to be able to manage the appliation post installation.
- Worked closely with all integrations from 3rd party logistics providers internal applications.
- Administered all applications and their access across the entire organization including Google Cloud, JetBrains Suite, GitHub, GA/GAE/GTM, Atlassian Suite and more.
Saatva Mattress - Senior Software Developer
March 2018 - December 2020
- Lead architecture design of large scale custom logistics and manufacturing system supporting 150+ independent furniture manufacturing to order submission and process tracking all the way to product delivery.
- Developed hyper-fast front-end order aggregation application to give “unified, single-point visibility” to orders across 4 different systems.
- Worked directly with DevOps to develop, manage and scale Docker-based development and production deployment tasks.
- Spearheaded testing and review policies to ensure code quality and full-team engagement.
- Acted as team lead across all 3 teams at different times to bring specialized viewpoints and experience to those teams including SaaS and MicroService design.
- Assisted in interviewing and hiring of all new employees including that of senior management positions.
- Managed ecommerce store architecture for product catalog unification and overall process simplification.
NetSpend Corp - Senior Web & Mobile Architect
May 2016 - June 2017
- Lead conceptualization and proof-of-concept development of highly streamlined micro-hybrid application to decrease user friction based on application size and application update adoption.
- Member of SDLC, who advised senior management and team members on development process, PCI Compliance concerns and remediation steps.
- Directed the architectural direction of Netspend and client branded mobile apps. Planned and developed processes and infrastructure to move development and production services to a cloud based architecture.
- Spearhead initiatives to increase development velocity. Worked directly with multiple departments to bridge communication gaps and encourage teams to work together that weren’t previously.
- Managed architecture changes and process for 5 local and 2 remote teams using Agile process. Teams consisted of 2-3 developers, 1-2 QA techs a Scrum Master and a PM. Directed Front-end Solutions Architects to implement Architecture changes for all projects in development.
- Interviewed, hired and mentored all front-end developers which both increased productivity and morale while decreasing developer turn-over dramatically.
Key Ingredient - Senior Application Developer
June 2014 - May 2016
- Developed custom modules for a multi-national Magento E-Commerce solution, with over 2,000 items, Django App to manage 2+million recipes for machine-based automatic categorization.
- Developed and launched mobile apps on IOS and Android to integrate with custom developed hardware products.
- Set-up and maintained a Jenkins CI for automated deployments, along with a cloud-based storage solution.
- Managed multiple AWS/GCP servers and infrastructure for web app handling 500,000 unique visitors monthly, along with Google Analytics reporting.
Intellagent Benefit Solutions - Founder, CEO
November 2010 - August 2022
- Architected, designed and developed native cross-platform Android and iOS apps for secure document retrieval using PhoneGap.
- Planned and Executed a secure, personalized insurance documents distribution strategy for Insurance Professionals as an SaaS application.
- Developed a Docker deployment process to run and deploy websites from secure Docker containers.
- Design, develop and maintain custom PHP-based WordPress Web Service for sharing sensitive data, and integrated custom API for WordPress.
- Designed and developed ecommerce solutions for clients who requested the functionality.
State of Ohio - DODD - Senior Mobile Architect
2012 - 2014
- Design, develop, Implement and publish native cross-platform Android and iOS app PhoneGap / Cordova API
- Utilize single-page-app architecture to deliver native experience using JavaScript MVC framework backbone.js, html5, css3, underscore.js, zepto.js
- Developed multiple PHP Test Cases for prototype service development using AJAX, JSON, XML connected to a DODD mobile app. MySQL test databases for test XML/JSON content pull for DODD mobile app tests.
