Lead Full Stack Engineer
Hum Capital - Portland, OR
October 2022 to March 2025
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Drove many initiatives to completion which were previously stalled at the ideation stage. These initiatives
included
everything from implementing long-standing feature requests, removing bottle necks in the sales funnel, and
improving
communication across departments.
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Researched, proposed, and coordinated implementation of tooling to improve processes surrounding release
management.
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Wrote compiler that took an obscure language as input and produced human-readable, canonical react
components. Obviating
the need for the obscure language allowed for the easier onboarding of new frontend team members, and also
reduced the
time required to release new frontend features.
Senior Software Engineer
Kandji - Portland, OR
March 2021 to October 2022
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Helped shepherd adoption of a prominent platform
used to selectively enable features across one or
more customer instances.
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Published several documentation articles in the
organization wiki, including RFCs detailing
architectural improvements to core business
components, onboarding material for new hires, and
technical articles to help engineers educate
themselves on novel technologies used at the
organization.
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Authored both front end and backend optimizations to
drastically improve various pages within the core
product.
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Facilitated adoption of agile principles on multiple
teams to aid in the team's planning and operational
efficiency.
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Selected to be part of the first official
leadership development program.
Senior Software Engineer
ActiveCampaign - Indianapolis, IN
February 2019 to March 2021
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Helped to design and implement the architecture of a
system which allowed for the declarative configuration
of third party integrations that could transform data
to be shared with our internal systems.
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Helped implement a browser-based editor for the
declarative format for use by third party developers
when writing their integrations.
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Wrote internal tools to help Sales, Marketing, and
Customer Services get insight into how well our
integrations are performing in order to keep their
clients well-informed.
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Wrote tools to make every day tasks for developers
across multiple teams easier and less error prone.
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Over time, implemented various improvements to an
inherited code base that both phased out deprecated
technologies and coding patterns in favor of modern
approaches, but also improved the efficiency of the
system and improved maintainability of the platform.
Dev Lead
Theoris, Inc - Indianapolis, IN
August 2018 to March 2019
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Helped put various agile processes into place to both
streamline the development process and ensure the
stability of production systems.
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Improved the performance of client-side and server-side
systems, reducing memory consumption, reducing latency,
and eliminating unnecessary computations in various
areas throughout the platform.
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Conducted training, wrote documentation, and introduced
docker scripts to improve the on-boarding process and
understanding of the code base for my client's future
employees.
Senior Instructor / Tech Lead
Kenzie Academy - Indianapolis, IN
November 2017 to August 2018
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Contributed to a large portion of the Software
Development course, writing lessons, activities, and
assessments and reference solutions on topics ranging
from modern styling with Flexbox and CSS Grid, modern
JavaScript features using ES6, list and dictionary
comprehensions in Python, and Test Driven
Development.
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Deployed and configured the Learning Management System
using Amazon Web Services, including S3, EC2, and RDS.
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Was consulted on the studio side of the business to meet
with prospective clients and make major architectural
decisions, in addition to building out continuous
integration and delivery infrastructure using Docker,
CircleCI, and AWS.
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Helped develop and implement the screening process for
prospective students and deployed an applicant tracking
system.
Lead Instructor
The Iron Yard - Indianapolis, IN
May 2017 to November 2017
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Provided support to other instructors, including
giving lectures on more nuanced topics such as the
Model-View-Controller pattern, Big-O notation, and
unidirectional state management using Redux for
single page web applications.
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Contributed to making the Indianapolis campus the
number one campus in the nation as measured by key
performance indicators.
Vice President of Product
Clear Software - Zionsville, IN
July 2016 to April 2017
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Helped institute Agile development practices, as a
means of accurately measuring development velocity
to obtain more accurate estimates on the complexity
and duration of various development tasks.
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Refactored the back-end, resulting in a 10-fold
improvement in the responsiveness of the application
for end-users, and the ability for it to support
over 100,000 concurrent users, up from the original
limit of 1,000.
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Wrote a drag-and-drop tool that allowed end-users to
create a custom UI layer over their SAP, Oracle,
and/or SalesForce instances without needing to write
a single line of code.
Software Developer
DirectEmployers Association - Indianapolis, IN
July 2014 to July 2016
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Helped write a tool to assist employees with
outreach efforts to under-served communities which
scraped various online government databases and
collated the information in an easy-to-use system.
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Was often called on to quickly troubleshoot and fix
historically problematic systems when time was of
the essence.
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Wrote a custom user permissions system to meet the
company's need for granular control of user rights
that exceeded those provided by the web framework
and plugins available at the time.