Software Engineering & Leadership

IndigoAg

• Platform and program architect, partnering with product, business, and commercial stakeholders to define, architect, build, and support dynamic software platforms for farmer & customer data management, carbon & emissions traceability, geographic crop mapping, machine learning algorithms, grain merchandising, real-time commodity trading, enterprise financial settlement business process, & cross-functional integration services.

  Building & managing actively-used, rapidly-changing production software platforms in Python, Typescript/Javascript, Ruby on Rails, and Java; as well as meta-platforms including internally-managed libraries, development processes, and suitable AI-powered code development systems. Collaborating on assessment of software performance, deployment strategy, operating cost, and capital decision making.

  Co-owner of full technology stack, with a primary focus on developer and product enablement to ensure that priorities & roadmap activites are enabled by our solutions and accelerated where required. Collaborated with team technical leads help plan development efforts to meet project and program roadmaps. Coordinating priority & decision-making for the software platforms with other principal engineers.

MRM

• Acted as Lead Architect for Salesforce Commerce practice, responsible for technology implementations, enterprise architecture decision making, project implementation processes, and team leadership.

• Partnered with business, IT, and marketing leaders to enable the execution of strategies related to eCommerce & web technology. Working directly with stakeholders to define, prioritize, and execute these initiatives.

• Participated with business development team to sell opportunities related to eCommerce with prospective partners & clients.

• Designed and implemented a discovery, definition, and design process to streamline the requirements gathering process across projects.

• Partnered with technology products & services, including Salesforce, to architect & implement solutions that address the needs of stakeholders. Developed functional, technical, and platform requirements as part of projects.

• Participated in implementation backend software technology using a variety of tools in partnership with developers.

M.Gemi

• Owned the backend eCommerce platform for M.Gemi, supporting integrations with eCommerce, order management, fulfillment, product information, payment, point of sale, customer messaging, and enterprise data warehouse.

• Directed a small team of developers supporting a number of high-profile business initiatives including exchanges, international expansion, in-store sales, omnichannel retail expansion, and customer experience enhancements. Worked with business stakeholders and product to define technical roadmap & requirements. Compiled work breakdown structures for projects.

• Designed microsystems and enhanced existing microservice architecture (based on Node, Scala, Kubernetes) to support data pipeline, integration, message queuing, data analytics, and custom business features.

• Managed technical vendor relationships for various platform components and assisted in platform criteria development and selection processes.

• Collaborated with business stakeholders across the buiness as day-to-day platform operations and support.

Optaros

• Acted as the client-facing technical owner for eCommerce projects. Responsible for technical project requirements and task breakdown/estimations; development process, code delivery, and code management; and technical leadership of small teams of developers, QA, and BAs. Translated and developed strategies for implementation of business requirements between the business/client stakeholders and the technical development team.

• Collaborated with sales team, technical architect, and UX team to assess, scope, and pitch consulting work in Magento and Demandware for new and existing clients. Developed high level task breakdowns and estimations based on client requirements for new work, and contributed to proformas and project plans.

• Responsible for technical strategy and roadmap for ongoing projects, planning of technical solutions for upcoming work, and contributed to overall business ecosystem architecture.

• Lead developer for multiple Magento-based consulting projects. Worked with client, project management, business stakeholders, and development team to define requirements, plan and architect implementation, and build new features for web applications.

• Owned scope and code development for client projects; primary owner of business requirements for application development; collaborated on task organization alongside the project manager.

• Tasks included: technical design, implementation, and support of custom business requirements and custom integrations with third-party enterprise software (Payment/ERP/OMS/CRM); development and integration of monitoring/reporting tools; analysis, optimization, and stabilization of Magento application and infrastructure performance; development and support of deployment scripts for production and test environments.

• Contributing developer on a number of client-facing projects. Tasks included: server-side and client-side feature development, bugfix support, platform upgrades, system stabilization, and performance optimization, primarily on the Magento Enterprise platform.

• Worked closely with the client stakeholdes, project manager, and team members to organize and scope tasks within sprint cycles.

Heroix, later became StockROVER

• Designed and built user interface of individual-professional targeted stock investment web application for a variety of features in the application (HTML/CSS) and other related pages.

• Contributed to web front-end with ExtJS Javascript framework, AJAX technologies, and developed new event-driven, UI-bound objects within the ExtJS framework.

• Contributed to Ruby on Rails/MySQL server backend and data design.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

• cum laude, dean's list, rensselaer medal

• Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor society