Objective: Staff Engineer, Principal Systems Architect, Principal Engineer, Team Lead

Principal Systems Architect

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  Created time-series data collection & analytics; Generates events to track change on internet
  
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  Scaling systems and creating devops tools to better utilize infrastructure
  
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  Advanced math to transform non-scalar data from AWS Alexa into a scalar digest
  
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  Monitor, log, benchmark, and automate the internet monitoring robots
  
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  Build data pipelines for enterprise customers exposing the internet sliced in different ways
  

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  Maintenance of a legacy, custom, in-house built, Lab Information Management System. Engineers responsible for the creation of the system had moved on. Upgrades to Rails and Ruby, and many 3rd party libraries.
  
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  Analysis of potential replacement third party LIMS systems.
  
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  Interviewed candidates for new Software Engineering leadership team (VP, Director, Sys Admins)
  
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  Integration of Windows-based OPC DA services with the LIMS system with new data sampling mechanisms
  
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  Created library to translate garment designs to instrumentation for a Stoll industrial knitting machine
  
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  Primary JIRA administrator for all company projects
  
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  Participated in Leadership Fundamentals training
  

Automation Team Lead

Web Team Lead

Stack - Rails 4.2, Ruby 2.3, RSpec, AngularJS 1.4, PostgreSQL, S3, ElasticSearch, Redis, Memcached, Sidekiq, CircleCI, Jenkins, Github Enterprise, ZenDesk, NewRelic

Invoice2Go Jan 2016 - Feb 2017

http://www.invoice2go.com

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  Lead the web team in development of the new web app at https://web.invoice.2go.com/
  
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  Laid the groundwork for new service architecture, implementation and continuous integration
  
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  Designing JIRA process, workflows and screens, and integration with ZenDesk
  
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  Designing and implementing git branching strategy and supporting toolchain
  
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  Implementing sandboxed dev env and tiered deployed environments
  
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  Design and implement feature flags allowing synchronized feature release across clients
  
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  Engineering Leadership role in Jakarta office
  

Senior Engineer

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  Rebuilding architecture of entire tech stack
  
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  Extracting front-end parts to ember-cli and react thin clients
  
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  Building structured, authenticated, performant APIs, utilizing versioning and caching
  
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  Modernizing versions of Ruby, Rails, and many critical gems
  
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  Implementing backend to support launches of new product lines (blazers, ties, belts, pants, sweaters, tees, etc), fulfillment processes, factories, and shipping methods
  
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  Designed and created a fully spec’d 12-state Lead CRM tool
  
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  Integrated Salesforce with internal Lead CRM via my celluloid-io-pg-listener gem
  
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  Built a commissioned sales attribution framework that supports point-in-time history
  
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  Fixed the factory pattern and rewrote the spec suite, adding thousands of additional tests
  
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  Setup new deployed environments, created Thor deployment tool for automation of the many deployment related sub-tasks
  

Senior Staff Architect, Services

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  Forensic analysis of 5 year old ruby service layer
  
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  Upgrade from Ruby 1.8.7 to 2.0, then 2.1
  
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  Created ruby service APIs to support many varied clients, & regression test suite
  
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  Implement account lock and token expiry security measures & automated enforcement
  
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  Upgrade daemon infrastructure and trading systems, improve software stack / `make` system
  
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  10x performance enhancement of internal services: former 20 req/s is now at least 200 req/s when the bottleneck changes to external resources.
  

Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer

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  Built the entire site & made all tech decisions
  
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  Advised on all product and design decisions
  
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  Created matching engine with Neo4j + PostgreSQL data analysis algorithms
  
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  Mobile first, responsive design, with intuitive, touch-enabled mobile interface
  
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  Designed to provide an immediate experience to each new user
  
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  One page app design, in preparation for iPhone app
  
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  UX tool-chain: backbone-marionette, handlebars, RequireJS, slim, SASS, foundation
  
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  Ruby upgrade 1.9.3 to 2.0.0
  
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  Accepted into Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator Winter 2013 class (ERA - NYC)
  
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  Fully automated and self-correcting, no intervention required for 4 months.
  
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  Successful exit via acquisition!
  

Senior Rubyist & Lead Developer

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  1^st Employee, and lead developer of Bloomberg Black, a personal wealth management startup
  
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  I built internal gems:
  
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    VCR extensions: improved automated management / recording of soap interactions allows for isolated development, recorded sessions reduce dependency on service tier
    
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    Javascript: flyout menus, internally tabbed ajax pages, scrollspy, breadcrumbs
    
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    Spec suite with thousands of tests to enforce style guide, validate ruby namespace against collisions
    
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  SOAP services interface, generators for SOAP models and test fixtures; created version dependency resolution between Ruby layer and Java services
  
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  Rack middleware for fast custom logging => Splunk, 10ms per request improvement
  
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  Designed project structure: ajax widgets built out of reusable RequireJS modules, cells for componentized features, presenters for single instance variable, and logic free views
  
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  Spec infrastructure: created custom rspec matchers, acceptance tests, JS unit tests
  
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  CMS presentation code for the dynamic content on the site with all content available via static route or ajax widgets
  
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  Built the CMS backend for the content entry in the 100% javascript Rapid IDE
  
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  Manage the Rails infrastructure: gem dependencies & upgrades, ruby upgrades -v1.8.7 through 1.9.3, rails upgrades - v2.3 through v3.2.6
  
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  Maintained platform interoperability – Windows & RedHat & MacOS
  

Team Lead, Senior Engineer

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  Mentored junior developers, and reviewed code
  
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  Built some of the more complex parts of the system, e.g. CX ghosting/masquerade tool
  
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  Created data reporting features, utilizes my csv_pirate gem.
  
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  Did all original, three-way, marketplace payment integration with Amazon FPS, and became maintainer of remit gem
  

Partner & Lead Developer (Ruby on Rails)

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  Developed a Ruby on Rails based media storage and retrieval engine
  
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  Development, testing, deployment, and refactoring internal projects, including:
  
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    CartaBuzz – Find things to do near you (many third party APIs)
    
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    MonkeyStub – Get tickets to events fast (many third party APIs)
    
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    YetiMail – Snopes for Chain Letters / Spam / Phishing (web scraping; a fuzzy phrase analysis engine; AI)
    
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  Trained 5 new hires in Ruby, Rails, REST, and stateless programming
  
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  Likewise with all Rails-based client projects, including: social networks, nonprofits, data warehousing, and commercial sites
  
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  Biggest contract was with aSmallWorld, http://asmallworld.com:
  
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    Lead team of 10 developers converting old PHP site to Rails
    
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    Assisted sys-admins with setup and design of new load balanced 32 server production stack
    
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    Wrote forums, photo sharing, friend network presentation engine
    
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    Designed polymorphic basis for CMS in the new site
    
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    Moved millions of rows of data from the legacy tables to new rails friendly table designs and data models, and optimized SQL queries, and code structure for negligible downtime during PHP -> Rails migration
    
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    Optimized to handle 2MM uniques per month, and 300K page views per day
    
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    Designed and implemented page and user tracking
    
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    Built advertising minisite engine for Estee Lauder and Mercedes-Mclaren campaigns
    

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

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  Developed Google-inspired search engine for POC build of BibleGateway.com
  
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    http://github.com/pboling/awesome_search
    
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  Created dynamic tools used to import hundreds of publications into the system:
  
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    improve quality of data, metadata, and data linkages
    
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    incrementally index publications with Solr / Sunspot
    
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  Implemented advanced exception handling and reporting
  
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  Developed parser to transform raw text into HTML decorated with footnotes and many publishing formatting requirements
  

Founder & System Architect

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  Built a full-featured web application for a credit union (unable to disclose name)
  
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    Integrations with several payment gateways and money transfer services
    
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    Clients could transfer money from other institutions
    
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    Clients could make online withdrawals to other institutions
    
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    Advanced fraud detection and different levels of account locking
    
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    Built admin backend systems for credit union staff to use
    
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    Interest calculation
    
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    Nightly audits and reconciliation on accounts
    
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    Document upload system
    
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    Account statements, and ledgers
    
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    Notification system and support system, with knowledge base
    
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    All devops work, security hardening, server provisioning, backups, etc
    
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    System I created handled over $10 Million in deposits
    
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    Many thousands of accounts and users supported
    
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  Built a letter writing, printing, and mailing service (unable to disclose name)
  
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    Allows people to contact government officials, local, state, and national
    
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    Geolocates users to determine the correct legislators
    
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    Internet service, but real world result as a physical letter is delivered
    

Senior Developer, System Admin, Ruby on Rails

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  Photo sharing features, form handling, messaging, advertising services, calendaring.
  
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  Created a mailer daemon system to fix timeouts on the website when sending emails.
  

Systems Analyst / Developer (Ruby on Rails, XSL, C#, Shell)

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  Developed search features for and deployed new Indiana Register website running on Tomcat, Cocoon, and Google Mini appliance
  
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  Created Indiana General Assembly's internal call center application running the House, Senate, and LSA call centers.
  
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    Setup Windows Server 2003 RoR staging & production environments with mongrel_cluster & Oracle 10g backend and IIS6 frontend
    
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    AJAX address based lookup of senate and house districts for constituents, with issue tracking, and daily summary email to legislators
    

Ruby on Rails Developer & Partner

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  Built a fantasy football website for a client
  
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  Built a credit union web application, and administrative tools, for a client
  
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  Built a government advocacy web application for a client
  

Linux System Administrator & Developer (Rails, PHP, Java, Perl, Scheme, Shell)

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  Primary developer on first-ever enterprise-grade, Rails-based, ticketing system
  
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  Built a time tracking app in Rails for an IT consulting agency
  
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  Built AirBnB for planes in PhP
  
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  Managed a Debian apt repository mirror
  
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  Built and maintained internal debian packages handling configuration synchronization, key rotation, and automated backups.
  

Legislative Services Agency (LSA) Dec 1998 – May 1999