Resume
Skills - DevOps
- Amazon Web Services
- Ansible
- Consul
- Docker
- Vagrant
- Bash
- Continuous integration
- Continuous deployment
- High traffic sites
- Caching strategies
- Development at scale
Skills - Development
- MySQL
- PHP5
- LAMP stack
- Ruby and Ruby on Rails
- Laravel
- Symfony
- Node.js
- Express.js
- Javascript
- KnockoutJS
- HTML5/CSS
- Wordpress
- Python
- MongoDB
- Build tools (Gulp, Grunt)
Experience
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- Build, maintain, and upgrade infrastructure for Splash
- Implement continuous integration and continuous development using a variety of tools
- Create tools to automate workflows and project management in JIRA
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- Build, maintain, and upgrade infrastructure for all of Vestorly
- Create build scripts and deployment strategies in AWS
- Coordinate with business development and client success to build reports, access data, and ease flows with development
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- Lead server-side team of four developers
- Oversee and guide developers through projects and challenges
- Coordinate with business development and project managers on estimation and initial planning of prospective and approved projects
- Compose functional specifications, wireframes, and other artifacts to aid in development
- Head initiative to perform retrospectives on projects to continually improve internal processes
- Promoted twice within two years: to Senior Developer, and then to Lead Server-Side Developer
Selected projects
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Rolling Stone, 2013 - 2015
- Oversaw and successfully executed the development of the new Rolling Stone website
- Led team of three developers in building a API backend, CMS, and frontend
- Collaborated with client on improving specifications and documents, optimizing CMS workflows for editors, and solving problems in implementation
- Coordinated with third party provider on AWS server setup and configuration
- Implemented continuous deployment strategy across platform
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- Implemented two campaigns for Jim Beam, including one that used Facebook data to calculate a score, and alter a user-submitted image based on that score
- Collaborated with Ogilvy team on designs, solutions, and user testing
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- Built platform to process and analyze millions of lines of data on podcast listenership
- Created interface to see aggregate results and to search and drill down for detailed data
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- Developed frontend interfaces and backend implementation for modules in a custom-built management system for Verizon Core
- Created and implemented a new content management system and modules, using PHP, MySQL, Javascript and HTML, to be used for team-based marketing campaigns for Drillteam Marketing
- Worked at various clients’ sites to build and maintain internal systems and external websites
Open source development
- Recaptcha - A reCAPTCHA Validator for Laravel 4/5
- Redoubt - A resource-level ACL for Laravel 4
Education
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, Bachelor of Arts, May 2007
Majors: Computer Science and Japanese
GPA: 3.63 (Computer Science), 3.74 (Japanese); cumulative GPA: 3.60, magna cum laude