Technical Experience

Tatari

Software Engineer 3

Los Angeles, CA, 11/2018 - Present
  • Lead engineer for the finance operations team, responsible for creating a suite of streaming media invoicing and reconciliation tools
  • Mentored less tenured engineers shortening effective contribution time from 4 months to 5 weeks
  • Lead engineer on marketing site integration, transitioned all marketing media on website with zero downtimePerformed DevOps work with AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Fastly, and Heroku

TrueCar

Software Engineer

Santa Monica, CA, 08/2015 - 11/2018
  • Development on Ruby monolith, maintenance on Python Flask micro-services, PostgreSQL database
  • Created Ruby on Rails API and integrations for OEM Engagement Platform responsible for over $8 million in yearly revenue
  • Contributor to search engine implementation for the TrueCar used car platform using ElasticSearch
  • Lead developer & maintainer for Python platforms: multi-partner platform, email rendering platform, user survey platform, etc.

Florida Department of Economic Opportunity

Architect & Engineering Lead

Tallahassee, FL, , 09/2014 - 06/2015
  • Analyzed time series data for adherence to business rules & uniqueness against Apache Cassandra dataset for fraud detection
  • Managed a team of 8 developers from requirements planning to product release
  • Datastax Enterprise stack with Apache Cassandra database, Apache Solr search & Apache Spark analytics

Interests & Proficiencies

Languages

  • Python3
  • R
  • Ruby
  • SQL
  • LATEX

Frameworks

  • Flask
  • Django
  • Ruby on Rails

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • Redshift
  • Redis
  • ElasticSearch

DevOps & SRE

  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Heroku

Tooling

  • VS Code
  • Pycharm
  • DataDog
  • Rollbar
  • Sentry

Personal Projects

Broadcast

  • Open source SMS based application utilizing Twilio API, allows users to manage group messages with bot integration
  • High performance, object oriented Python3 using the Flask micro-framework with a focus on scalability, alerting & robustness
  • Continuous Integration pipeline using Github, Circle CI, and Heroku

Activities & Competitive Experience

Techstars Startup Weekend

Engineering Lead, Product Direction, Presenter

Los Angeles, CA, 04/2019
  • Third Place, Created an SMS based service to assist the homeless in finding local resources using Python3 and Flask

FSU Cybersecurity Club

Technical Director

Tallahassee, FL, 12/2013 - 08/2014
  • Aid in competition training & preparation for FSU Cybersecurity team

Southeast Collegiate Cyber-Defense Competition

FSU Team Co-Captain

Kennesaw, GA, 04/2013 - 03/2014
  • Mitigated attack vectors, hardened enterprise level systems against intrusion by professional penetration testers

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA, 01/2020 - Present

Computer Science, Master of Science

Florida State University

Tallahassee, FL, 08/2009 - 08/2014

Computer Science, Bachelor of Science

Applied Mathematics, Minor