Overview

I enjoy building software to help solve interesting and complex problems while building a strong engineering and team culture focused on sustainable technical and interpersonal growth.

Experiences

Founding Engineer

Feb 2024 - Present
Somnea Health
  • Building a unified telehealth platform to treat various sleep disorders. Combines technology with behavioral psychology to achieve significantly better patient outcomes.

Backend Engineer

Oct 2023 - Present
Independent Contracting
  • Consulting and contracting work for e-commerce clients.

R&R

April 2023 - Sept 2023
  • Career break to travel, recharge, and attend to personal matters.

Senior Backend Engineer, Founding Team

Jan 2023 - March 2023
Intro
  • Short term advisory work helping the team re-architect their payments platform to be more flexible, future-proof, and scalable.

Senior Software Engineer 2, Backend

April 2019 - Dec 2023
GOAT, Los Angeles
  • Marketplace Engineering - Tech Lead, Pricing & Availability

    Leading development for our Global Pricing service with specific focus on the Add to Cart → Checkout → Purchase portion of the funnel. Maintained the Checkout experience and data processing pipeline for prices and inventory on-site.

  • Buying/Consumer Engineering

    Software Engineer on the Core Buying Experience team building out new product features and scaling existing platform for growth. Using my experience, I helped transform the team’s sprint process to improve efficiency and reduce uncertainty. Built services that enabled other Backend teams to accelerate their feature development through consolidating and improving existing APIs. One of the core team members that built the Black Friday experience.

Staff Software Engineer, Storefront

Dec 2013 - April 2019
Wayfair, Boston

Software Engineer on the Storefront team with experience across a number of different teams. Ask me about the following:

  • Rearchitecting legacy codebases.
  • Implementing new functionality or refactoring significant tech debt in an environment without existing test coverage.
  • Successfully delivering significant value to a business in a relatively short amount of time.
  • Philosophy on team building.
  • Leading two teams at the same time.

Past lives at Wayfair:

  • Login & Authentication
  • RAM (Retention, Acquisition, and Marketing)
  • Homepage, Navigation, Verticals
  • User-Generated Content (Product Reviews, and FAQs)
  • On-Site Media
  • Lifestyle Brands Engineering

Software Security Test Engineer

June 2012 - Dec 2013
Hologic, Inc.

Software Engineer responsible for the security certifications of the various Hologic medical devices. Some responsiblities included the following:

  • Created lab environment and automated test procedures.
  • Monitored the industry for newly identified threats to cyber security and assess the risk to Hologic products.
  • Determined Hologic product requirements associated with maintaining security and reliability in networked customer environments.
  • Performed and documented vulnerability assessments on Hologic products and provided support to product teams.
  • Assisted with product development efforts dealing with security and network vulnerability issues.
  • Educated sales and service force on topics and issues related to network security and virus protection.
  • Kept company & product teams aware of technology, industry trends, and market requirements with respect to the cyber protection of medical devices and information in healthcare environments.

Skills & Proficiency

PHP | Ruby | Go | Pyton | Javascript/Typescript

MsSQL | PostgreSQL | NoSQL

Rails | MVC | Flask/Django/FastAPI | Node/Express

Redis | Memcache | Etc.

AWS | Google Cloud