Enterprise Software Developer in Saratoga Springs, NY, United States

In the telecom world, load-testing call centers is a tedious and expensive activity. The client had a novel approach to the load-testing challenge which leveraged the Twilio API to perform the same testing at a much lower price-point.

After refactoring their Python/Django proof of concept to bring it up to Enterprise standards, I designed an interface using D3.js/C3.js which displayed—in real-time—the progress of the ongoing load-test. Engineers could then visualize when failures were occurring, get the details of each failed call, then use that information to diagnose and resolve the issues in their technology.

The client presented Loadify at the Twilio Engage conference in Sydney, where it garnered a lot of interest. We then used it as the first service of their SaaS platform, while complementing it with a few additional capabilities like load-test scheduling, whitelisting, Slack notifications, etc.

Technologies: Twilio, Python, Django, Data Visualization, MySQL, Apache, AWS, D3.js, C3.js, jQuery, AJAX, Bootstrap

Email has been around for 40+ years and its age is starting to show: its interfaces and capabilities seem stuck in the 20th century, oblivious to the host of changes in technology, design, and culture since its birth almost a half-century ago.

How much time have you wasted trying to find an attachment that you were sent or a conversation you had with someone? Yet in spite of this, and in spite of the development of new communication channels (SMS/MMS, WhatsApp, Slack), email is and will remain the gold standard for inter-business communication.

I designed a modern, messaging-style interface and application for email, then architected and developed a SaaS Platform to support it. For individuals, the interface is a dramatic improvement for reading, filtering, and searching folders, threads, and messages, while delivery—and read—receipts provide users with intelligence on the status of each message after they hit "send". On an organizational-level, admin management of a domain's accounts and users is the best and easiest-to-use in the industry. It's currently in beta.

Technologies: SaaS, PHP, MySQL, Symfony, Email, User Interfaces, Architecture, APIs, Enterprise

As application developers shift their approach away from using large frameworks and toward microservices, the PHP world is finding itself a bit behind the eight ball. I myself have been working with both PHP and MySQL for many years—both are extraordinarily sophisticated and capable. But in a microservices approach, you wouldn't want to load up a whole framework with its ORM. Usually, you'll just parse the HTTP request, perform a few database queries, and return a JSON response.

Mint is designed to fit perfectly in this approach, allowing you to quickly and easily execute MySQL (and SQLite) queries using PHP. It's simple, lightweight, fast, and secure. There are shorthand methods for all of the basic CRUD operations, e.g., $mint->selectOneById('tablename', {id}).

For complex/custom requests you can hand it your parameterized query and an associative array of values. It will bind your parameters, execute the query, and return the kind of result you requested. Just what you need for your endpoints, nothing more.

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, SQLite, PDO

In close coordination with the client's development team, I developed a PHP SDK to streamline and unify the way developers interact with the organization's core data assets. The result is a proprietary Composer package which provides a fluid, consistent, object-oriented interface to interact with and manage various data/relationships, and is implemented across the client's many applications.