Experience
Sr. Software Engineer
Scribd Inc / Nov 2021 - Present
- Build and maintain a resilient Payment system that processes payments for 2M users.
- Integrate with multiple gateway processors and select best one to provide greater authorization rates.
- Technologies used: AWS, Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Redis, Sidekiq.
Director of Development
Bitwise Ventures (Parent: Bitwise Industries) / Oct 2019 - Nov 2021
- Led 4 new B2B SaaS products from ideation to launch, including architecture, specification and implementation.
- Support over 3,000 daily active users across portfolio companies
- Own the Product Development roadmap for each company and lead teams of upwards 7 developers to prototype, experiment and iterate over product features.
- Provide guidance to senior developers while helping debug, code review, triage critical issues and mentor junior developers.
- Work daily with the product, sales and marketing teams to review market research, user feedback, analytics and plan product vision.
- Technologies used: AWS, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, GraphQL, React Native, Docker.
Founder
ClassMap / Jan 2018 - Present
- Solo founder and developer for a bootstrapped SaaS for special education teachers.
- Technologies used: AWS, Python, React, Redux, DynamoDB, Docker.
Senior Software Engineer
Bitwise Industries / Aug 2018 - Oct 2019
- Scoped and developed full stack applications across a broad range of domains (education, agriculture and employee management) bringing in over $400K in revenue.
- Participated in the company's architecture team and helped set the standards and practices for the company. Constantly participated in monthly tech talks in front of 50+ developers.
- Technologies used: AWS, Node.js, MongoDB, React.
API Architect and Lead Software Engineer
accesso Showare / Aug 2014 - Aug 2018
- Led and architected a scalable REST API to allow systems such as Six Flags, Amazon Tickets, and Disney, as well as other accesso solutions to integrate with the Showare ticketing system and process over 19 million tickets annually.
- API partnerships led to an acquisition of Showare by accesso for over $30MM.
- Built a Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) pipeline to release quality software.
- Technologies used: C#, SQL Server, IIS, Redis, Node.js, RabbitMQ, Teamcity.
Full Stack Software Engineer
accesso Showare / Apr 2013 - Aug 2014
- Worked with the product team to design and implement crucial features to the online ticketing solution to allow partnerships with Mastercard, Visa and Capital One.
- Helped transition 300+ custom installations into an unified code base to provide quicker product rollouts. From bi-annual product releases to weekly releases.
- Implemented internal tools to improve custom deployments for hundreds of tenants.
- Technologies used: ASP, SQL Server, IIS, Angular.
Software Test Engineer
FocusVision / Jun 2010 - Apr 2013
- Developed internal tools for the Python and Javascript Engineering teams to easily debug tests and integrate with our CI server.
- Managed the CI server and ensured software quality before deployments.
- Gave talks in our yearly development meet ups.
- Technologies used: Python, Angular, jQuery.
Education
California State University, Fresno
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science
- Most Outstanding Computer Science Student, Class 2010
- Technologies used: Java, C++, Ruby, Python, PHP, MySQL
