Professional Experience
Senior Software Engineer
April 2023 - Present
Pomp Beauty, Inc
Denver, Colorado (Remote)
- Built a compliance tool to track contracts and agreements signed between the firm and all their contracted Estheticians
- Conducted an audit to determine application security threats and create a security mitigation plan
- Conducted extensive scalability testing and mitigation to ensure the application can grow by 10x users by EOY
Co-Founder, Lead Developer
March 2023 - September 2023
Boston Tech Insights, Inc. - Boston, Ma (Remote)
- Co-founded a technology startup to leverage a suite of AIs to generate insights into the commercial due diligence process as well as market research
- Focused on leading a team of 6 highly motivated and qualified engineers to quickly build and deliver web and AI applications for the V1 product
- Built a SaaS web application to leverage B2B interviews to generate insights for mergers and acquisitions type projects
Principal Web Architect
October 2022 - April 2023
Beachbody - Denver, Colorado (Remote)
- Advocated for better software engineering practices, ADA design, created an application security review process
Architect / Lead / Software Engineering / DevOps
March 2018 - October 2022
PwC - Huston, Tx (Remote)
- Lead multiple teams of 10-15 developers, plus QA and business to achieve successes in the commercial due diligence process. Worked on at least 12 major consulting projects for PwC that each were responsible for over $5,000,000 of revenue
- Built (hands on, technical work, not just management) internal applications from idea to full blown applications in record time, managing minimal budget, training very junior staff and exceeding expectations
- Secured more than 60 legacy applications and a dozen servers from severe OWASP 10 vulnerabilities, created a team and a process to support the ongoing work while we built new products
Software Engineer Team Lead (Contract)
October 2016 - February 2018
SlingTV - Denver, Colorado (Onsite)
- Led a team of 12 engineers to rebuild the account portal using React JS with Redux talking to newly built Java Spring Microservices. Deployed this application to serve 2.2 million customers of SlingTV
- Mentored 3 junior team members by pairing with them on technical tasks, coaching them in their careers and helping them develop as professional software engineers
Senior Software Engineer (Contract)
April 2016 - October 2016
Active Junky - Denver, Colorado (Onsite)
- Through a combination of caching, SQL query reduction and tuning I was able to reduce page performance time from 16 seconds on a cold cache to under 1 second. Previously warmed caches had taken over 3 seconds to load which now were operating in the 500-700 millisecond range
Senior Software Engineer (Contract)
September 2014 - April 2016
UnitedHealth Group - Optum Technology, Broomfield, Colorado (Onsite)
- Built a HIPAA compliant call center application in javascript, NodeJS and Backbone JS for all Kaiser Permanente agents which generated $50 million for UHG as part of their next generation call center application. It was used for open enrollment for Kaiser for 2015, resulting in over $100 million in sales.
- Designed and implemented the HIPAA compliant encryption system used for storing PHI and PII. I designed a reusable Gem for the company that allows developers to determine what fields should be encrypted
- Built a HIPAA compliant ETL application in Ruby on Rails 4.0 to load the medical history of 10 million patients to calculate anticipated health costs for the next year.
Software Engineer
March 2013 - September 2014
Gloo - Boulder, Colorado (Onsite)
- Built a HIPAA compliant REST API in Rails 3.2 using controllers and Jbuilder that delivers JSON content to thousands of Android and IOS clients. Automated documentation through the use of Swagger.
- Built a customizable dashboard in Angular that allowed users to change what content they could see on the home page.
Education
Colorado State University
Bachelor of Science in Applied Computing Technology (Degree earned)