• Pioneered machine learning and behavioral analysis systems for credit card fraud prevention, saving over $450,000 in losses and ensuring the seamless processing of over $3,000,000 in monthly revenue.
• Built robust spam and bot detection systems, ensuring a 99.5% email delivery rate for 2.5 billion monthly emails, safeguarding the company’s reputation and preventing automated sign-ups.
• Founded a cross-functional Trust & Safety Team, facilitating all communication, project prioritization and technical scoping.
• Designed and built a comprehensive flagging and monitoring system, reducing the rate of abusive account creation by 90%.
• Implemented a cost-efficient, event-driven analytics backend processing over 30,000 events per second, empowering customers to analyze vital business metrics, including traffic sources and revenue streams.
• Developed engagement analysis of over 4 billion customer subscribers, processing real-time events such as email opens, link clicks, page views and product purchases to enable powerful targeting and audience segmentation.
• Conducted regular Lunch & Learn sessions on topics such as OO Design, Testing, DDD, and Systems Design, enhancing code quality, such as reducing flaky tests by 25%

Capture The Castle was my personal freelancing business. Building software for small and large businesses.

• Improved PostgreSQL performance in a classroom forum feature, speeding up thread loading by 70%, fostering better student-professor collaboration.
• Engineered a robust, real-time tracking system for interactive classroom UI, recording over 10,000 client-side events per minute; enabling highly accurate progress tracking and streamlined coursework submission.
• Reduced reported errors by 10% by speeding up test feedback and educating others on best practices.
• Collaborated with designers and project managers to deliver education based features to hundreds of universities globally, enabling thousands of students to collaborate, learn & submit coursework.

• Introduced testing on the front end, reducing errors reported by 17%.
• Optimized front-end best practices, resulting in a 2x increase in the number of features delivered.
• Led regular interactive training sessions for 20+ engineers on front-end best practices, fostering continuous learning.

• Built an internal email processing tool, resulting in a 30-minute reduction in sales lead processing time by designing a rules engine to parse incoming messages and extract content for quicker analysis.

• Architected web applications for top brands like Microsoft, Starbucks, Stanley, AT&T and Western Digital. Developed the 2012 Sasquatch Music Festival Site, winner of three awards and one additional nomination.

• Established reusable website components and patterns, decreasing delivery times by 20%.
• Launched custom, interactive, websites for top breweries nationwide, meeting critical deadlines.

• Implemented secure CMS systems enabling the management of over 20 websites related to music venues and festivals.

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