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The College Board

Title	Senior Software Engineer
Dates	Oct 2024 - Present

Summary

Senior Software Engineer on the Item Cloud Teal team. Designing solutions to making higher education accessible to every student through innovative technology, building cutting edge applications.

Stellar Elements

Title	Solutions Architect
Dates	April 2022 - April 2024
Tech	AWS Lambda, AppSync, API Gateway, ECS, S3, CloudFront, GitHub Actions
Databases	SQL Server, AWS Aurora, PostgreSQL
Languages	NodeJS, Typescript, React, Python, Terraform

Summary

At Stellar Elements, I created unique, people-focused experiences for our clients. I was responsible for designing an developing software architecture, with a focus on modern, scalable solutions that were also cost efficient.

Notable Projects

AMCL - Created an internal call list management app for our client ALKU, saving thousands of hours of manual input for their account managers. Built in Typescript and React, we utilized serverless AWS technologies such as Lambda and Aurora for the backend API and deployed a static frontend using Cloudfront. More details

Special Olympics of Massachusetts - Helped design and implement a full digital transformation for the Special Olympics of Massachusetts, which involved the merging and syncing of data from over 20 disparate systems into a single Salesforce instance, significantly increasing data reliability and organizational efficiency. Developed using low code solutions such as Webflow and Zapier, with additional custom work integrating SQL Server data into Salesforce.

Wayfair

Title	Software Engineer II
Dates	April 2016 - April 2022
Tech	Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, GCP, GitHub, GitLab
Databases	SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Google BigQuery
Languages	PHP, NodeJS, Python, Javascript

Summary

As a Software Engineer, I was responsible for developing and maintaining high performance web applications across multiple teams. I started building solutions and tools for the company’s Storefront team, and then transitioned into a role on the Release Engineering team, where I became the core maintainer of the of the company’s feature toggle tool.

Notable Projects

Feature toggle tool - Served as the technical leader of the feature toggle team, overseeing a critical system utilized by all engineering teams to manage feature releases and testing. Ensured the system’s stability and integrity while leading the development of features that improved the user experience and operational efficiency of the system.

Developer Metrics - Co-founded a team dedicated to constructing data pipelines that provided analytics around the company’s deployment tools. These efforts created key metrics that informed leadership about the effectiveness of our deploy process, which substantially impacted company-wide technology strategies.

Product Page URL generation - Revamped the URL generation process for product pages, which reduced load time by 20% and enhanced our user experience.

Hill Holliday

Title	Software Engineer
Dates	September 2012 - April 2016
Tech	Laravel, Slimphp, Chef, Tornado, BitBucket
Databases	MySQL, PostgreSQL
Languages	PHP, CSS, Sass, Python, Javascript

Summary

As part of the Department Of Innovation and Technology team (DOIT), I was responsible for building applications and experiences for clients such as Dunkin’ Donuts, Bank of America, and Libery Mutual.

Notable Projects

Tweethearts - Created a Twitter bot that generated customized candy hearts from a tweet. Users would send their message to @tweethearts, and would receive a reply with the message printed on Sweethearts candy; users could then purchase their customized candy. Featured in Buzzfeed, FastCompany, and boston.com. More details

Senator for a Day - Built an interactive experience for visitors to the Edward M. Kennedy Institue in Boston, where visitors could have their picture taken and become “Senator for a Day”. We’d then take their photo and generate custom campaign stickers and posters created for them to share on social media. Additionally, the photos were pushed in real time to digital billboards along the highway. More details

One Fund Boston - Our team was tasked with creating the initial “One Fund Boston” website to collect donations for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, which was developed and launched less than 7 hours before the fund was publicly announced. More details

ContentLead

Title	Software Engineer
Dates	May 2012 - September 2012
Tech	Wordpress, Joomla, git
Databases	MySQL
Languages	PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS

Summary

I was responsible for building custom importers for a content marketing product, as well as integrating the solution into our client’s websites. I created a custom plugin from the ground up for the Joomla CMS, and addtionally helped maintain and develop a Worpress plugin.