Noteable.io Mar 2022 - Dec 2023 (end of operations)
Managed 8 backend engineers and 4 platform engineers
Oversaw delivery of ChatGPT plugin and numerous other features delivered by cross-functional teams
Lead deployment frequency improvements from every two weeks to on-demand
Drove qualitative improvement to local development experience resulting in significantly reduced lead times
Introduced distributed tracing and canonical logs leading to 20% reduction in DataDog costs
Engineering Manager, Backend
Quartet Health Oct 2018 - Mar 2022
Scaled team of 5 to 10 engineers and 1 additional manager
Managed two agile cross-functional product development teams
Lead partner integration API MVP to delivery in under 2 months
Drove domain-driven design inspired improvements to backend system leading to 80% reduction in change failure rate
Engineering Manager, Platform
Quartet Health Sept 2016 - Oct 2018
Managed team of 4 platform engineers
Lead Infrastructure-as-Code adoption and self-service Terraform PR workflows using Atlantis
Delivered self-service CI/CD workflows on Jenkins
Engineer, DevOps
Quartet Health Apr 2016 - Sept 2016
Lead migration to container based deployments
Deployed and operated centralized structured logging and metric services using Elastic stack
Engineer
Welcome (Formerly ChatID) Oct 2012 - Apr 2016
Owned and operated internal APIs and management console
Lead adoption of Ansible and Terraform for cloud resource management and operations
Open source and local Python community relations
Engineer
Local Projects Aug 2011 – Sep 2012
Lead engineer on numerous web, mobile and touch-screen kiosk applications for clients including University of Florida, SeaWorld, and Cleveland Museum of Art
Tech Lead
Syrup Jan 2011 – July 2011
Technical project management and development
Senior Developer
Rokkan Oct 2005 – Jan 2011
Award winning web application and content development. Clients included 2K Games, Elektra Records, Jose Cuervo, Mitchum, Progressive Auto, Stride Gum, Trident Gum, Umbro, and Virgin America
Designer, Developer
2ndNatureNov 2003 – Oct 2005
Designer and developer of identity systems, stationery, collateral, interactive CD-ROMs, touch-screen kiosks, and websites for clients such as Welch Allyn, PPC and various local small businesses.