Education
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
B.S. in Computer Science 2014
Credentials
EMT-IV (NREMT, IV certified in Colorado)
Wilderness First Responder
Professional Experience
- Refactored and made major improvements to the billing and payments system to support new products and pricing systems.
- Enhanced analytics systems to better understand the implications of various Growth-focused initiatives.
- Assisted on the native iOS and Android applications.
- Worked on billing and payments related infrastructure, focusing on handling complex insurance coverage scenarios correctly.
- Founded a new team building tooling for internal non-engineering teams.
- Mentored senior-level engineers, preparing them for larger projects and more involved roles.
- Built foundational infrastructure to solve for problems new to the company.
Block, Inc. (formerly known as Square, Inc.)
April 2019 to February 2024
Senior Software Engineer
Remote - Colorado, US
- Investigated, diagnosed, and made improvements to payments reliability across multiple services (primarily Java, some Go and Ruby).
- Took a hackweek project and developed it from alpha to full GA product offering: Terminal API
- Worked across multiple organizations to unblock development work and create needed functionality that was missing.
- Mentored several junior engineers, bringing them from new graduate level to independent developers and software designers.
- Created metrics framework and pipeline to track product success rates and overall revenue.
- Primary developer on a greenfield healthcare web platform and responsible for deploying it into production via Kubernetes.
- Made significant improvements to a Python-based data processing workflow.
- Developed a Vue-based web application for users to access and interact with their data.
- Created various services to support core application functionality in Python and Go.
- Full-stack software development (Scala, Angular.js) on a marketing and e-commerce platform used by over a thousand brands.
- Wrote and maintained JavaScript (Backbone.js) modules and plugins that were installed on brand websites.
- Ran and developed the on-call system by providing documentation, selecting tools, and defining the process.
- Assisted the DevOps team with migration into a VPC while maintaining uptime during the upgrades.
- Developed internal tooling: including a developer CLI application, a web application to manage project management tools, and many more.
- Made client requested improvements to an existing Oracle/Java Struts project, wrote User Acceptance Tests, and documentation for undocumented subsytems.
- Helped develop new ASP.NET based project management software with client specific features and product design.
- Deployed new servers at work, including a SVN server for source code management and a new Linux based deployment server.
- Developed and debugged desktop applications for the Linux operating system on both the x86 and ARM CPU architectures.
- Used the QT C++ Libraries and other open source software to create a lightweight customized desktop environment.
- Tested ICA, RDP, and VMWare View connections on Thin Client hardware in order to discover bugs and optimize performance.
- Customized several open source packages to better fit the Thin Client environment, such as Firefox and FreeRDP.
- Migrated and rewrote outdated mammography tools from Visual FoxPro to .NET and T-SQL.
- Reverse engineered legacy solutions and built ActiveX controls to ensure software was viable for both older machines and newer machines.
- Created a new tool to help mammogram technicians and radiologists communicate results of a scan to the referring physician.
- Updated an internal communication web application using C# and ASP.NET.
Volunteer Experience
Engineering Skills
- Java
- JavaScript
- Go
- Python
- Rust
- Scala
- Shell
- TypeScript
- AWS
- Ansible
- BigQuery
- Chef
- Docker
- Dynamo
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Looker
- MySQL
- Packer
- PostgreSQL
- React
- Redis
- Snowflake
- Terraform
- Vue