Architecture Developer in Los Angeles, CA, United States

Tasks:
• Worked as an engineer as well as a Scala expert for Middesk.com on their data pipeline.
• Used functional programming and object-oriented techniques to create a system that allowed flexible, extensible parsing of business registration data across 50 states.
• Implemented the testing framework, which shortened the development time and decreased server costs.
• Wrote Apache Beam jobs (using the Scio big-data framework) which were executed on the Google Cloud Platform Dataflow to perform ETLs on BigQuery.

Tasks:
• Led the engineering and product teams for Assembled Brands during their engagement with the outsourcing firm, Pivotal.io.
• Developed a business process map enabling AB to create SOPs, standardize work across team members, and identify opportunities for automation.
• Created a product roadmap that defined the next steps.
• Managed three engineers and two PMs to deliver a financial data collection tool automating reporting from Shopify and Quickbooks.
• Used OAuth to enable Shopify and Quickbooks apps to pull data from APIs, through RabbitMQ, to PostgreSQL.
• Developed the hiring plan and job descriptions for initial hires.
• Trained a junior PM.
• Managed an Agile/Scrum process.
• Implemented CI/CD workflow from CircleCI to Heroku.

Tasks:
• Consulted for a VR advertising company called Vertebrae.
• Established the strategy for pivoting to an augmented reality advertising product in JavaScript, Node.js, and Unity.
• Managed the launch of AR ads for virtual-try-on sunglasses and hats.
• Oversaw the mobile web in-browser ad launch for the "Jigsaw" movie with Lionsgate and Atom tickets.
• Planned the strategy for launching an AR ad SDK.

Tasks:
• Led a team of five product managers and 20 software developers in the development of a browser extension to find coupons online.

Tasks:
• Implemented and managed a highly scalable API and middle-tier for a recommender system serving 2 billion requests per month.

I built an open-source library in Scala that's useful for refactoring. Steno allows a developer to take a method that returns a value and wrap that value so that input, output, the intermediate state, and any notes can be captured and bubbled up through the call stack—this allows an in-depth analysis of how the code is working.

I created a custom Gatsby layout using React, SCSS, CSS Grid, GraphQL, and CSS Doodle. The site is served statically at low latency and near-zero cost via AWS CloudFront.