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Qualified, senior-level full-stack software developer with over 12+ years of engineering, operations and project management experience in a variety of industries. Proven leader focused on building simple, scalable, highly-performant software. Expert at refactoring legacy code, reversing negative sales trends, creating beautiful user experiences, and maximizing profit and automation in enterprises both large and small.
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Currently in San Francisco, California
+1 (415) 697-1337
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Most Recent Gigs
Lead DevOps Engineer (Platform) — HotelTonight
From April 2015 to October 2015 in San Francisco, CA
- Saved the company over $331,000 over the next year by modernizing and consolidating all development, staging, QA and production environments on Amazon Web Services
- Introduced the engineering team to Docker, which made the developer onboarding process much simpler
- Upgraded the API backend services to use Ruby 2.2.3, instantly cutting response times for most endpoints by 45% (most of which was time spent in garbage collection)
- Wrote many command-line tools using Golang, which were deployed as a "devops toolbelt" of sorts to each production instance
- Oversaw HT's daily site operations, and noticably improved overall site reliability and performance
Lead Rails Engineer — Rovi Corporation
From March 2013 to January 2015 in Burbank, CA
- Spearheaded project to rewrite Rovi's TotalTV platform in Rails 4, Ruby 2, Backbone.js, CoffeeScript and other cutting-edge web frameworks from an older, non-functional .NET platform in under two months
- Lead a team of developers, practicing Agile methodologies, and also assisted in migrating and merging multiple other similar Rovi TV guide applications into a single, sustainable platform
- Helped drive the company toward using a container-based deployment flow using cutting-edge technologies, such as Docker and CoreOS
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