
Credit Karma
Aug 2017 - Present
Staff Software Engineer
Mar 2022 - Present
• 3 yrs 1 moSenior Software Engineer II
Sep 2019 - Mar 2022
• 2 yrs 7 mosSenior Software Engineer
Aug 2017 - Mar 2022
• 4 yrs 8 mosWe make financial progress available for everyone.
I use Scala, Java, and Google Cloud services to deliver great tools for our B2B partners and excellent financial product offers to our members.
I work to level up SWEs on my team, coordinate with other teams and product managers, knock down obstacles before they become a problem and work towards getting consensus early.

Senior Software Engineer
Lookout
Apr 2016 - Aug 2017
• 1 yr 5 mosAs a senior backend engineer for the Enterprise product I used JRuby (and some Scala) to create and maintain services that kept enterprise administrators aware of the health of their mobile device fleet.

Lead Application Developer
Chase
Jan 2013 - Feb 2016
• 3 yrs 2 mosTransitioned acquired infrastructure and data from the cloud to a data center, created a POC for improvements to the Ink Jot app, worked on the JavaScript framework team.

Sr. Developer, then Director of Engineering
Bloomspot.com
Jul 2010 - Jan 2013
• 2 yrs 7 mosInterviewed engineers, managed of offshore engineers, consulted with product/project managers about approach and technical requirements, architected data storage and data flows, did code review, managed cloud infrastructure, wrote/refactored business critical code.
Using: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Riak, memcached, EC2, Mercurial and a host of Python apps.

Lead Developer
Watershed Non-profit Group
Feb 2010 - Jan 2011
• 1 yrGave this non-profit a much needed web presence fairly quickly. We had to pull in a lot of disparate media data for display and dissemination in a short amount of time, along with putting up a blog/CMS.
Used: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, nginx, memcached, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, etc.

Developer
The Selling Source
Jan 2008 - Feb 2010
• 2 yrs 2 mosI helped design and implement enterprise business logic which matched lenders/services with customers as part of an eCommerce engine which handled millions of transactions. I also wrote a flexible service interface for passing data to our dozens of customers in real time.
In addition I was brought in to help struggling projects on more than one occasion. I helped bring testing to the culture and helped upgrade the QA department by rotating in engineers.
Used Java, Spring, Tomcat, PHP, MySQL, etc.

Lead Developer
TimeIPS, Inc.
May 2004 - Jan 2008
• 3 yrs 9 mosI was the lead engineer on a time clock product which also exported to programs like Paychex.
I worked on the web interface, designed the system for updating our hardware in the field, read and implemented labor law logic for both the US and Canada and maintained the PyGTK time clock application.
Used: Python, PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, etc.