Engineer
2019 - PRESENTPerpay- Designed and built a collections portal which resulted in over $290,000 in payments in the first year.
- Managed agile process changes during reorganization from one team into two engineering teams.
- Led the team that developed full-stack features using Python/Django and React. Responsible for organizing team members to deliver on time.
- Conducted technical and behavioral interviews and onboarded new engineers.
- Assisted recruiters in developing a hiring pipeline.
- Drove cultural change to embrace a functioning test suite and created an automated test pipeline in Travis CI.
- Introduced A/B testing to the feature development workflow.
- Collaborated with the product manager to design new UI components, appropriately scope work, and estimate projects.
Technologies: Django, Django REST Framework, Python 2, React, Redux, Redux-observable, React Native, Expo, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon EC2, Docker, Git, PostgreSQL, Storybook, Figma, Python, JavaScriptSenior Software Engineer
2016 - 2019Datto- Led a team of five engineers during the launch of the Google GSuite back-up product.
- Developed a back-up product for Google Calendar using Scala.
- Optimized the usage of OpenStack Swift to increase write throughput by nine times.
- Mentored interns and junior engineers on the new Scala codebase.
Technologies: Scala, Ruby, Ruby on Rails (RoR), PHP 7, SymfonySenior Software Engineer
2015 - 2016Noodle- Led engineers in the design and development of a prototype iOS app.
- Established software development best practices, such as automated testing and code review.
- Trained and mentored junior software developers on Python and Django.
- Led the team during integration of acquired Allclasses proprietary technology into Noodle's Django application.
Technologies: Python 2, Django, React Native, jQuery, Backbone.js, Amazon EC2, DockerSenior Software Engineer
2014 - 2015Allclasses- Developed NLP techniques to pull structured information from HTML and unstructured text.
- Developed features for internal dashboard app using Backbone.js and Python/Flask.
- Maintained a scalable queuing system for website scraping.
- Designed an efficient MongoDB schema informed by research of potential data sources.
- Leveraged Elasticsearch knowledge to improve search result relevance.
Technologies: Django, Python 2, Backbone.js, jQuery, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Scrapy, Flask, SQLAlchemy, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
George Nagel
Senior Software Developer in Philadelphia, PA, United States
Member since March 19, 2021
George is a full-stack engineer with strengths in team leadership and culture. At Perpay, he led technical development of a system that recovered hundreds of thousands of dollars from customers in its first year, and helped double the size of the engineering team. He enjoys working with early-stage companies to establish engineering best practices, find product-market fit, and grow engineering teams.
George is now available for hire
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Docker, Slack, Git, GitHub, PyCharm, Sublime Text, Jira, Trello
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on increased write throughput by a factor of nine in a distributed data storage holding petabytes of data.
Employment
Experience
- Servotehttps://servote-b5597.firebaseapp.com
Servote is a web app for creating quadratic-voting-based polls. Quadratic voting is a type of voting where a voter may place multiple votes for candidates, but subsequent votes are more expensive.
I designed and developed all portions of the application, in addition to coming up with the idea. - Resugram
Resugram was a template-based resume generator that helped users create professional-looking resumes using the LaTeX typesetting system. As the CTO, I helped design data models and implemented the back-end systems in Python and Django. I also managed the deployment process via Heroku.
Skills
Languages
Python 2, Python, Python 3, Ruby, Scala, PHP 7, Java, JavaScriptFrameworks
Redux, Django, Django REST Framework, Ruby on Rails (RoR), React Native, Symfony, Scrapy, FlaskLibraries/APIs
React, jQuery, Backbone.js, SQLAlchemyTools
Redux Thunk, Expo, Git, Figma, Slack, GitHub, PyCharm, Sublime Text, Jira, TrelloParadigms
ScrumPlatforms
Firebase, Heroku, Amazon EC2, DockerStorage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticsearchOther
Redux-observable, Storybook, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Digital Signal Processing, Electrical Engineering, Circuit Design
Education
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering2010 - 2011Georgia Institute of Technology - Altanta, Georgia, USA
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering2006 - 2010Tufts University - Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
Certifications
- Certified Scrum MasterAUGUST 2016 - APRIL 2018Scrum Alliance
