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Full stack developer with 20 years in the game.

Work Experience

West Monroe

Senior Principal Software Engineer

February 2023 - Present

B2B Patron Loyalty App: Tech lead on a large (10-15) team building a patron loyalty program from scratch: infrastructure, admin tools, and loyalty app. React Native, Vite/React, .NET backend, Azure cloud hosting.

Legacy Rails Rehabilitation: Tech lead on a team of 6 developers on an infrastructure rehabilitation for an outdated Rails backend. Story writing, backlog grooming, code reviews, lots of pairing. Rails version upgrades, AWS infrastructure management via Terraform, load testing via Grafana k6.

In addition to contract work, I’ve been conducting tech skill assessment interviews, and acting as career advisor to four advisees.

West Monroe

Principal Software Engineer

March 2022 - February 2023

Home Automation App Prototype: Engagement lead for a team of 3 developers in building a mobile app to demo the HEMS smarthome engine. Worked with stakeholders to define and implement the MVP feature set. Mentored a relative newbie to functional React Native developer. React Native and Flask (Python HTTP server).

eCommerce Mobile App: IC on a team of 5 developers working on a React Native eCommerce app. In addition to feature work, I got to give many PR reviews, schemed + implemented some effective refactors. Released to app store in 2023. React Native, Algolia, occasional Rails API work.

Carbon Five

Senior Developer

March 2018 - February 2022

Investment Website: Sole developer to build a marketing site for potential investors. Worked directly with product owner and in-house designer to implement an ambitious design spec. Essentially, we built a Powerpoint presentation in HTML. HTML / CSS / JS, and some clever SVG work.

Rails Monolith Rehabilitation: IC on a team tasked with modernizing a Rails monolith to Vue frontend and microservices. Onboarded two offshore legacy devs to the “new paradigm”, implemented Auth0 login / logout, and plenty of various features. VueJS, GraphQL/Apollo, some Rails work.

Greenfield Mobile App: Tech lead on team of 3 Carbon Five engineers. Together, we created an MVP React Native app intended to replace the existing PWA. React Native, GraphQL, some NodeJS.

Smart Oven Mobile App: IC iterating on an existing Carbon Five project. Implemented some tricky hardware provisioning code with a prototype smart oven. In order to ensure functioning hardware, I had to sous vide some of the best ribeyes of my life. React Native.

iOS Team Member: IC on the Stitchfix iOS app team. Implemented a bunch of Mixpanel events. Classic ViewController iOS app, built in Swift.

Greenfield fintech iOS App: IC on Covalto, an aspirationally prestigious Mexican business card. SwiftUI and Swift Composable Architecture (a flavor of Swift-based FRP).

Telehealth iOS App IC on a UK-based telehealth app, tasked with localizing the app for the US market. Worked with many brilliant people, notably the inimitable Brian Riley. FRP-flavored Swift, Rails, a light amount of Kafka.

Totokaelo

Tech Lead

October 2012 - October 2018

Inherited a basic Rails eCommerce site and added many features: Authorize.net checkout, point-of-sale dashboard, order fulfillment screens, per-screen drag-n-drop merchandiser, wholesale receiving screen, multi-location inventory (affecting order picking, in-store POS availability, etc). Regular Rails maintenance via Capistrano. Eventually migrated to Magento. Rails, Prototype.js, jQuery, Magento, Vue.js.

Beet Inc / DIY Music

Intern, Junior Programmer, Senior Programmer

August 2006 - February 2011

Digital downloads site for electronic dance music, including in-browser library streaming. ASP.NET, Javascript, Flash, Flex 3.

Arctic Region Supercomputing Center

Student Assistant

September 2004 - August 2006

Created synthetic instruments in a early virtual reality environment. ChucK, Max/MSP, C++.

Education

University of Alaska, Fairbanks

BS, Computer Science

2006

University of Washington

Certificate in iOS Development

2014