My Journey
April 2022 - PRESENT
Stripe
Staff Engineer
Tech Lead on the Web Presence and Platform team, working on tooling and infrastructure for stripe.com.
December 2015 - April 2022
BoxCast
Director of Engineering
Wearer of many hats @ BoxCast on our 🚀 to the 🌙. Building the world's simplest and most powerful live video platform for organizations, starting with a combined hardware+software offering. We build incredible video encoders, a complete microservice-based cloud video pipeline (AWS + Golang + C + Ruby), applications for broadcasters, and great viewer experiences on web, mobile, and TV.
April 2015 - December 2015
Vertical Knowledge
Lead Web Developer / Team Lead / Manager
Served in player-coach capacity while managing a team of 5 engineers (and some interns) on our web product development efforts (Python, Angular, React). Successfully launched and iterated on multiple products. Obtained DoD Top Secret Clearance.
February 2015 - April 2015
Explorys (IBM Watson Health)
Sr Software Engineer
Wanted to use my love of data to help improve medicine and delivery of care. Worked on a brand new population management application and microservices (React+Ruby+Java). Left in the wake of the acquisition by IBM.
December 2011 - February 2015
DRB Systems
Lead Software Designer
Led all web and mobile efforts (design, architecture, development, devops) for this fascinating company that built hardware+software solutions for the car wash industry. Launched and iterated on multiple new products including StatWatch, IndustryWatch, SmartCodes, and the TunnelWatch v4 overhaul (turning a legacy tunnel controller into a modern web app).
January 2008 - December 2011
American Greetings Interactive
Sr Web Developer
Fell in love with Python while working on a wide array of projects for various e-card and digital photo sites (including rewrite/migration of PhotoWorks). Got first hand experience planning for and managing extreme consumer traffic spikes during holidays.
June 2005 - January 2008
Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Web Applications Developer
Learned a ton about scaling eCommerce web sites as a developer on the Tire-HQ web application (Java/J2EE), eventually taking ownership over multiple subsytems and leading numerous successful projects.
September 2001 - June 2005
Case Western Reserve University
B.S. Systems & Controls Engineering
Pursued an engineering degree while working multiple jobs (programming, freelance web dev, bike shop mechanic, etc) and riding my bike a whole bunch.