Resume

Me at Watkins Glen Since 2016 I have built, deployed, and maintained API and full stack web applications on Heroku, AWS, Digital Ocean, and on-premise servers. I document my work in detail, use Git for version control, and am comfortable in GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab. I believe that every application should have a comprehensive test suite with continuous integration including static analysis for code quality and security.

I am a big fan of open source software. I have a number of my own projects on GitHub and contribute to other projects when I can such as home-assistant, ActiveLdap, AmazingPrint, and Net::LDAP.

Technologies

Application web servers (Apache HTTP Server, Puma, Tomcat)
API models (gRPC, OpenAPI, REST)
Authentication/Authorization (Auth0, OAuth, JWT, SAML)
Cloud (AWS EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS S3, AWS Secrets, Digital Ocean, Heroku)
Code quality (Brakeman, Code Climate, ESLint, Overcommit, RuboCop, ScssLint, YAMLlint)
Containers (AWS ECS, Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes)
CSS (SCSS)
Databases (Kafka, Memcached, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite)
Deployment and Infrastructure (Ansible, AWS Code Pipeline, Capistrano, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, Travis CI)
HTML (HTML5)
JavaScript (Angular v1, Cropper, Electron, Express, Inputmask, JQuery, Node.js, Quill, React, typeahead.js, TypeScript, Webpack, Yarn)
LDAP (ActiveDirectory, OpenDJ, OpenLDAP, PingDirectory)
Linux (ArchLinux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu)
Load testing (Apache Bench, lb, Siege)
Monitoring (Datadog, Honeybadger, New Relic, Rollbar, Sentry, Splunk, Uptime Robot)
Multi-factor authentication (Duo)
Payment processing (Chargebee, Stripe)
PHP (Composer, PHPUnit, SimpleSAMLphp)
Project management tools (Asana, Jira, Taiga, Trello)
Python (Flask, ldap3, pytest)
Ruby (Active Admin, ActiveLDAP, Capybara, Devise, Haml, JRuby, Net::LDAP, Rails, RSpec, RVM, Selenium, Sidekiq, Sinatra, VCR, WebMock)
Shell scripting
Version control (Bitbucket, GitLab, GitHub)

Work History

Hotel Engine, Remote

Oct 2021 - Present

Staff Software Engineer

Created a fraud detection system with queue for manual reviews
Designed and built a service to stream events from Salesforce to Kafka using gRPC subscriptions
Developed interface to sync data from distributed systems to Salesforce through Kafka
Designed and built TypeScript Express app with dynamically generated endpoints to serve complex aggregate queries from our data warehouse.
Reduced endpoint latency by tweaking PostgreSQL queries and creating composite indexes
Paired with developers at different levels across teams to solve complex problems and share knowledge
Created technical flow diagrams for complex data ingestion and state machines
Dockerized a large Rails monolith
Devised and implemented a solution to reduce failed bookings
Planned and performed complex data migrations and software upgrades with zero down time
Lead efforts to improve system monitoring across the organization to minimize outages
Built custom code coverage tool and incorporated in CI for multiple projects from Rails to NodeJS

Cerebral, Remote

Jan 2021 - Oct 2021

Lead Software Engineer

Championed the adoption of Rubocop, Brakeman, and other static analysis tools into our CI pipeline
Championed BDD integration testing with Capybara
Improved development workflow by establishing clear git guidelines
Mentored other developers across teams on best practices in Ruby and automated testing
Crafted component architecture diagrams for new and existing systems
Designed and implemented highly impactful features to automate manual processes
Wrote clearly defined user stories with clear and specific technical requirements for epics
Ran efficient stand-up meetings to identify blockers
Gave engineering-wide presentation on Active Record queries for performance, efficiency, and security
Conducted live coding and technical design interviews
Refactored endpoints to reduce the number of database queries and reduce latency

Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

May 2017 - Dec 2020

Senior Software Engineer, Identity and Access

Diagnosed issues identified from users, error reports, and log analysis tools to quickly squash bugs
Bridged the divide between technical and non-technical teams to dissect issues and enhancements
Orchestrated highly complex systems for role-based access control (RBAC)
Designed and developed new features for a suite of custom identity management applications built with Ruby on Rails, JRuby, PHP, JavaScript, and Python
Led and mentored a team of developers in person and remotely
Regularly updated internal technical documentation for my team and other teams
Collaborated with internal and external teams to design and develop complex data synchronization and processing between a wide range of databases, systems and services
Oversaw building comprehensive test suites for existing applications
Streamlined deployments with Ansible and Capistrano
Led the way in establishing continuous integration using CircleCI and AWS Code Pipeline.
Established code quality standards and continuous enforcement using tools such as Rubocop, ESLint, Overcommit, and CircleCI
Maintained our custom SimpleSAMLphp IdP implementation
Migrated an on-premise Rails app to AWS as first app in our organization to move to the cloud
Designed and carried out disaster recovery scenarios for mission-critical applications and services.

Code Climate, New York, NY

March 2017 - May 2017

Software Engineer

Worked closely with the sales and product teams to update marketing pages
Updated Middleman app with custom modules
Moveed app from Rails Asset Pipeline to Webpack
Built pages based on designs using HTML, SCSS, and JavaScript

Constant Contact, New York, NY

October 2016 - March 2017

Software Engineer

Worked on a small team of engineers that worked closely with the sales and product teams
Engaged in agile development including team feature planning with Jira
Developed and maintained three Rails apps that advertised on Facebook for small businesses and nonprofits
Ensured high code quality with Git, CodeClimate, and CircleCI
Practiced test-driven development with RSpec and Capybara in comprehensive test suites
Deployed, monitored and debugged production apps through Heroku, Honeybadger, Jenkins, New Relic, and Splunk

Flatiron School, New York, NY

May 2016 - October 2016

Online Instructor

Assisted students learning full stack web development with Ruby on Rails and JavaScript
Fielded student coding and development environment questions
Triaged issues with the Learn integrated development environment

East Bronx Academy, Bronx, NY

Aug 2008 - September 2016

Teacher and Solutions Architect

Designed and taught year-long curriculum for computer science and music in grades 6-12
Administered Google Apps for Education account with over 800 active users
Wrote shell scripts and custom OS images to automate Linux desktop deployments
Honored by Academy for Teachers for innovation as a computer science educator
Commissioned by PERC to create digital resources for the Exploring Computer Science curriculum
Commissioned by New Visions for Public Schools to create Google Apps for School Operations screen-cast tutorials

Projects

Web Directory - Public listing of people, departments, and services

Upgraded from Rails 4.1 to 5.2
Combined two rails applications and unified the search interface for departments, services, and people
Moved application from on-premise servers to AWS
Improved integration with Java UnboundID LDAP SDK library and JRuby
Improved page loading through caching and code refactoring
Updated styles from Boostrap v3 to v4

WCM Styles - CDN-delivered shared custom assets

Lead my initiative to extract shared styles and utilize free CDN hosting from JSDelivr
Used Webpack to manage external and custom dependencies and package assets

Seedlr - Share positive thoughts.

Coordinated with remote team across geographic divide with Trello, WhatsApp, Git, and Bitbucket
Built out new features including data models and UI from an InVision app
Integrated with payment system and mail marketing APIs
Used JQuery and custom JavaScript to enhance front-end with asynchronous AJAX requests

AdLauncher - Making Facebook advertising easy

Coordinated with a diverse team of engineers, product, and sales personnel
Used Rails 4.2 and gems including activeadmin, devise, ransack, state_machines, and sidekiq
Used Bootstrap 4 and custom SCSS to style front end
Improved payment processing using the Stripe API
Deployed from Github to Heroku with add-ons such as Mailgun and Redis To Go
Connected to FacebookAdsAdapter and ConstantContact APIs

FacebookAdsAdapter - An API to simplify advertising on Facebook

Abstracted the Facebook advertising API complexity for use on AdLauncher and Boost
Developed with popular gems including carrierwave, clockwork, kaminari, papertrail and puma

Boost - Boost email campaigns on Facebook

Maintained legacy JRuby Rails 4.1 app with Ruby 1.9.3
Extended ConstantContact with Facebook advertising
Deployed remotely with Jenkins and JRuby

Education

Flatiron School - New York, NY - 2016

Full Stack Web Development: Ruby on Rails and JavaScript online immersive program

Wilkes University - Wilkes-Barre, PA - 2011

MS: Instructional Media

City College of New York - New York, NY - 2008

BFA: Jazz Performance and Education