Principal Software Engineerat brightwheelFebruary 2017 - April 2023Remote
Started as the 2nd backend engineer, doing product development. Over time, shifted focus to SRE work, strategic planning, scaling efforts, infrastructure, team efficiency, and hiring. Promoted three times to Senior, Staff, and Principal.
2022 Principal Engineer
- Lead technical planning & implementation efforts for a new business product line, working closely with business strategists, product managers, and engineers to plan for an ambiguously-framed project
- Migrated entire AWS environment to use CloudFormation for GitOps
- Lead company-wide effort to implement and roll out 2-factor authentication with minimal customer disruption and high satisfaction
- Lead technical due diligence on a company we looked at acquiring
- Kubernetes, Flux, AWS, Postgres, CloudFormation, Redshift, Airflow
2021 Staff Software Engineer
- Revamped interview process; replaced coding "puzzle" challenge with a much-fairer session where the candidate extends their own take-home exercise
- Planned and implemented new authentication (OAuth) + authorization (RBAC) system for internal tools, allowing business to securely use external contractor labor during busy seasons
- Migrated Kubernetes to use Flux for GitOps, for production, staging, and ephemeral environments
- Ruby (Rails), Postgres, AWS, Kubernetes
2019 Senior Software Engineer
- Owned application and infrastructure scaling efforts for annual high-growth business cycle; improved main Postgres database metrics (CPU, RAM, IOPS) by ~50%
- Rewrote main billing product, contributing to massive revenue growth, better customer satisfaction, and huge scale (over $1B processed)
- Lead a multitude of process and tooling improvements: feature flags, continuous integration, project documentation process, product development process
- Migrated all infrastructure from Heroku to AWS to meet scaling needs
- Ruby (Rails), Postgres, Redis, Heroku, AWS
2017 Software Engineer
- Owned application and infrastructure scaling efforts for annual high-growth business cycle; improved main Postgres database metrics by ~50%
- Developed customer-facing features across all product verticals: billing, messaging, timecards, student information system, media, notifications, reporting, etc.
- Ruby (Rails), Postgres, Redis, React, Heroku
Technical Co-Founderat Fashion Feather LLCFebruary 2011 - September 2011Longmont, CO
Started an online business selling hair feathers, a hot fashion trend during the 2011 summer. This was the second website I ever made, and my first real business.
- Facilitated over $100k in gross sales on custom PHP website with Google Checkout integration
- Designed and optimized order fulfillment and shipping workflow
- Managed Google AdWords account (which drove the vast majority of sales)
- Managed company finances as Treasurer
- Hired and managed 10 part-time employees for order fulfillment