Saatva Mattress - Software Engineering Manager January 2021 - Present
Lead the support team which was available 24x7 that handles all technical issues with their front-end web application, their production logistics platform and all apps in between.
Took part in all hiring, mentoring and career development of all new engineering employees both domestic or international.
Worked directly with the architecture team as a contributing member on proof-of-concept development to solution planning.
Played a key role in optimizing the engineering departments development cycle and develop and enforce coding standards among all contributing developers.
Evaluated all 3rd party application integrations from a support perspective in order to be able to manage the appliation post installation.
Worked closely with all integrations from 3rd party logistics providers internal applications.
Administered all applications and their access across the entire organization including Google Cloud, JetBrains Suite, GitHub, GA/GAE/GTM, Atlassian Suite and more.
Saatva Mattress - Senior Software Developer March 2018 - December 2020
Lead architecture design of large scale custom logistics and manufacturing system supporting 150+ independent furniture manufacturing to order submission and process tracking all the way to product delivery.
Developed hyper-fast front-end order aggregation application to give “unified, single-point visibility” to orders across 4 different systems.
Worked directly with DevOps to develop, manage and scale Docker-based development and production deployment tasks.
Spearheaded testing and review policies to ensure code quality and full-team engagement.
Acted as team lead across all 3 teams at different times to bring specialized viewpoints and experience to those teams including SaaS and MicroService design.
Assisted in interviewing and hiring of all new employees including that of senior management positions.
Managed ecommerce store architecture for product catalog unification and overall process simplification.
NetSpend Corp - Senior Web & Mobile Architect May 2016 - June 2017
Lead conceptualization and proof-of-concept development of highly streamlined micro-hybrid application to decrease user friction based on application size and application update adoption.
Member of SDLC, who advised senior management and team members on development process, PCI Compliance concerns and remediation steps.
Directed the architectural direction of Netspend and client branded mobile apps. Planned and developed processes and infrastructure to move development and production services to a cloud based architecture.
Spearhead initiatives to increase development velocity. Worked directly with multiple departments to bridge communication gaps and encourage teams to work together that weren’t previously.
Managed architecture changes and process for 5 local and 2 remote teams using Agile process. Teams consisted of 2-3 developers, 1-2 QA techs a Scrum Master and a PM. Directed Front-end Solutions Architects to implement Architecture changes for all projects in development.
Interviewed, hired and mentored all front-end developers which both increased productivity and morale while decreasing developer turn-over dramatically.
Key Ingredient - Senior Application Developer June 2014 - May 2016
Developed custom modules for a multi-national Magento E-Commerce solution, with over 2,000 items, Django App to manage 2+million recipes for machine-based automatic categorization.
Developed and launched mobile apps on IOS and Android to integrate with custom developed hardware products.
Set-up and maintained a Jenkins CI for automated deployments, along with a cloud-based storage solution.
Managed multiple AWS/GCP servers and infrastructure for web app handling 500,000 unique visitors monthly, along with Google Analytics reporting.
Design, develop, Implement and publish native cross-platform Android and iOS app PhoneGap / Cordova API
Utilize single-page-app architecture to deliver native experience using JavaScript MVC framework backbone.js, html5, css3, underscore.js, zepto.js
Developed multiple PHP Test Cases for prototype service development using AJAX, JSON, XML connected to a DODD mobile app. MySQL test databases for test XML/JSON content pull for DODD mobile app tests.
