Noah Blumenthal
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Noah is an open-minded, friendly, and extremely talented engineering leader, with an infectious appetite for perpetual learning and elegant problem solving. He has conducted hundreds of interviews and put together teams of talented people from the ground up, led full-stack development initiatives, managed developers both onshore and off, and developed custom applications for Windows, Linux, the web, and beyond.
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The most amazing...
...accomplishment in my career has been increasing engineering output by an order of magnitude while dropping spend by >25%.
Work Experience
VP of Engineering
Litify
- Overhauled the engineering team, offboarded initial consultants, and onboarded full-time staff engineers. Performed around 200 interviews.
- Personally discovered and fixed dozens of high-priority bugs with an average turnaround time of under a day.
- Increased engineering output by order of magnitude while cutting spending by more than 25%.
- Build numerous Salesforce packages and integration.
VP of Engineering
Morgan & Morgan
- Built the company's engineering team from the ground up.
- Conceived and built v1s for numerous high-profile projects.
- Owned code and metadata running in Salesforce ORG used by thousands.
Founder
Barge
- Built tooling to manage thousands of amazon EC2 instances.
- Handled very large amounts of log data.
- Isolated test runs using Docker.
Interim CTO
InterviewJet
- Took over the technology department, prioritized bugs and features, and brought the software to launch in a matter of weeks.
Director of Engineering
YouAreTV
- Inherited a real-time video and chat application prototype and made it ready for prime-time. Succeeded in getting it up and running in a matter of weeks with no prior experience on the tech stack.
- Rewrote an entire back-end to support a theoretically unlimited number of concurrent users.
- Modified the codebase and infrastructure to allow for local development.
- Built custom tooling to load test web socket connections.
- Integrated Redis Pub/Sub for real-time communication.
Lead Software Engineer
GroupCommerce
- Worked as the first engineering employee after the CTO, responsible for a large portion of the design and code that launched for our first clients including DailyCandy, Thrillist, and New York Times.
- Developed an integral part of our white label, a multi-tenant eCommerce system servicing roughly 4 million requests/day including an email processing subsystem, credit card processing, and multi-currency support (C#).
- Wrote scripts to automate builds, including Amazon AWS provisioning and deployment and SSL procurement and updates (Ruby).
- Took over support for the Haskell advertising app.
- Wrote a custom single sign-on JavaScript library.
Consultant
Ziff Davis Media/PC Magazine
- Brought on for this project due to my expertise in ASP.NET MVC.
- Completely redesigned PCMag.
- Re-engineered a Vignette CMS legacy solution.
- Provided an application layer written in C#, LINQ-to-SQL, SQL Server, ASP.NET MVC, NHibernate, and FluentNHibernate.
Lead Developer
Computer Innovations
- Developed custom software for a diverse range of companies and industries.
- Handled requirements gathering, architectural design, and back-end and front-end development.
- Managed a team of offshore auxiliary developers.
Web Technology Engineer
TeamGenesis
- Developed custom web applications in ASP and PHP 3&4 with SQL Server and MySQL databases. Configured and administered Windows and Linux servers & dumb terminals.
- Developed a method of preserving data across subsequent page loads (cookie and cookie-less) before PHP supported sessions.
- Built an employee project and time tracking system (PHP4, MySQL).
- Designed a tool for a printing company to take online orders.
- Created an eCommerce system (ASP, SQL Server) still used by a major electronics reseller.
Experience
Highline
airlinemil.es
Barge
Skills
Languages
Apex, JavaScript, Ruby, Objective-C, CoffeeScript, C#, SQL, TypeScript, PHP, Active Server Pages (ASP), PHP 3, PHP 4, Java, Haskell, F#, C
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, Node.js, CarrierWave, React, Socket.IO, SockJS, FluentNHibernate, Backbone.js, Balanced Payments API, CocoaPods, Facebook API
Frameworks
Entity, Ruby on Rails (RoR), ASP.NET MVC, NHibernate, .NET, Bootstrap, AngularJS
Tools
Git, LINQ to SQL, Chef, AWS OpsWorks
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Real-time Systems, Concurrent Programming, REST, Functional Programming
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Heroku, Rackspace, CentOS, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, Docker, Salesforce, WordPress, Drupal 7, iOS
Storage
Redis, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Memcached, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Other
WebSockets, Flexibility, Chrome Extensions
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