• Head of Infra, leading a 5 person Infrastructure Platform team (2017-2022)
  • stepped down from management duties to focus on IC work
• Rackspace to AWS migration, 60 virtual and bare metal servers, lift and shift with zero downtime. Per unit cost of hosting went down 60% (Q3 2017)
• Designed and built a HIPAA+SOC2 compliant container-based Internal Developer Platform using AWS CloudFormation+ECS Fargate, shifting ownership of production applications and databases from a central ops team to software engineering teams, and then supported the migration and ownership handover of dozens of applications and databases (2018-2019)
• Introduced AWS SSO to support infrastructure-as-code requirements and best practices (2019)
• Replaced traditional single point VPN with Cloudflare Zero Trust for role based access (2020)
• Replaced Cloudflare Zero Trust with StrongDM for just in time access approval and full audit logging of production data access (2022)
• Replaced Cloudflare CDN with a custom solution, 30x per unit cost decrease (2022)
• Cleaned up tech debt accumulated over many years of fast paced development and several pivots.
• Improved security, stability and performance of the production stack while ensuring a safe environment for developers to quickly iterate on code in
• Built the first iteration of local development environments, dropping the dependency on VPN to the production network for development work

• Engineering Lead, Payments
• Engineering Lead, Triage
• Liason between NYC and eastern european teams, both working local business hours.

Head of development and architecture. Owner of all tech things not frontend. SQL whisperer.

Primary owner of the entire Python/Django/Postgres backend which crawled tens of millions of flights daily in search of the best deals.

Involved in product development, hiring and fundraising.

Worked on the entire deviantART web stack, from frontend to backend, internal tools and apps. Led several projects to refactor, optimize and secure core components of the website. Took ownership of the datamining service, stabilized, optimized and improved large portions of it. Led two projects to improve both UI and the underlying engine.

Hiring team member (Feb - Dec 2012)

Spam concerns liaison with Helpdesk, Community and Legal teams.

Public projects: MoreLikeThis, deviantWEAR contests, dA Muro

Fixed and optimized many sections of a codebase showing considerable bit rot, successfully stabilized an unstable product for key events of the season.

Communicated directly with top clients to ensure proper functionality during critical times.

Pitched, specced, prototyped, and built a new generation of product, which would go on to become the core of the company’s offering.

Primary responsibility was development of several in-house applications using Python/Django and jQuery.

Submitted patches to jQuery UI core.

Developed a music shop for entertainment industry professionals, using PHP, PEAR and Smarty.

Integrated PayPal and Google Checkout payment gateways, with a fully custom billing module.

Developed an “import” application to allow suppliers to upload music and edit complex music metadata without administrator assistance, including mp3 transcoding and tag reading.