SUMMARY

I’m a TDD friendly full stack developer with over a decade of experience building scalable web software. I know how to coordinate developers, QA engineers, and product owners to produce quality code on budget and on schedule. If you are seeking a Python/Django expert who knows how to find the ROI Goldilocks zone that lies between your company's tech and business priorities, then look no further.

EDUCATION

St. Edwards University, Austin — Bachelor of Psychology, 2005

Stanford AI Certification

EXPERIENCE

Senior Developer, Noodle Education

New York, NY — 2014-2016

Noodle is an education website designed to help parents and students make better decisions about learning.

Accomplishments

Built batch analysis application for analyzing the quality of millions of search queries using specialized boolean algebraic expressions.

Senior Developer, Hukkster

New York, NY — 2013-2014

Hukkster was an online shopping tool that used a large number of web crawlers to track user curated lists of products and send notifications when they went on sale.

Accomplishments

Built RESTful web API in Backbone.js and Django to handle mobile web traffic and manage products
Integrated Celery and Rabbitmq into web crawling infrastructure and inhouse CMS
Implemented high speed product search using Solr
Managed AWS instances via Saltstack and Mozilla Circus
Built infrastructure for affiliate data pipeline and wrote SQL queries for performing data analytics
Contributed to and maintained chrome/firefox bookmarklet
Initiated overhaul in the QA and unit testing process by integrating Jenkins, Jmeter, Selenium, and New Relic
Evaluated requirements and initial mock-ups; made technology recommendations that supported optimal construction, maintenance and performance

Lead Developer, Mindwink

Austin, TX — 2010-2013

Mindwink creates web software that leverages social networking site API’s and web crawlers to build relevant content for apartment communities. Other services included data analysis/visualization, machine learning, and custom built marketing tools.

Accomplishments

Coordinated and oversaw both in house and overseas teams for the construction of various Django applications
Lead team to build custom Drupal site and modules for managing inventory, personnel, scheduling for Blue Whale moving company
Used Python and d3.js to build an an interactive data tool for the American Heart Association
Constructed multiple web scrapers using Scrapy and BeautifulSoup

Junior Developer, Engage

Austin, TX — 2007-2009

A digital marketing agency (now Moxie) specializing in brand planning, creative, digital strategy, and advertising.

Accomplishments

Built custom Python app for generating HTML/CSS for Logitech’s multinational direct mail campaigns
Coded custom javascript browser plugins to assist management of LyrisHQ and Cheetha Mail.
executed graphic design, html, and javascript for Best Buy’s and Logitechs microsites and email campaigns.
Implemented code to perform A/B testing

Web Developer, Asyia Media

Austin, TX — 2005-2007

All purpose digital media company specializing in custom website creation, graphic design, and computer animation.

Accomplishments

Built and designed social events website using PHP, Jquery, ModX and Postgres
Created unique Flash animations using Photoshop and Actionscript.
Did modeling, texturing, and animation in Maya for Bartending schools TV spot.

SKILLS

Python/Django, Javascript/Jquery, PHP, SASS, Stylus, HTML, CSS, SQL, XML, GIT, Bash, AWS, Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya, Blender, Speak Japanese, hope bringer, pep talk crafter, skills list maker

REFERENCES

Available upon request