• Implemented a cost-efficient, event-driven analytics backend processing over 30,000 events per minute, 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.
• 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.
• 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%.
• Mentored Junior engineers through continuous education and pairing, enabling others to reach their career goals.
• Added documentation generation to CI/CD pipelines; led the adoption of RDoc, improving code reliability.

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

Working fully remote. Implementing features for a MOOC and LMS platform focused on providing the best user experience for students from all over the world to learn about art, code, and creative collaboration. My responsibilities included gathering specifications and requirements from designers, marketers, customers, and building full stack solutions to solve those problems. From implementing the backend API in Rails to the front end UI and UX written in HAML, JS (A lot of Knockout), and SASS.

Front end engineer on a scrum team consisting of 7, in a department of 16 scrum teams.

Working fully remote. Responsible for adding various, full stack, features to an email archive web service.

Interactive web developer in a small fast paced agency working with several high profile clients and companies. I would work on the full stack of any website or application I was assigned, from back end to front end. Work was produced on fairly tight deadlines at a very quick rate. I built the 2012 Sasquatch Festival website that won a Davey Gold Award, W3 Gold Award, HOW Interactive Merit and an OMMA Award nomination.

Taphanldes is a firm focused on the craft beer industry. I was part of a design team working on production design projects as well as developing all client websites. I was the sole developer at the time.

All websites that were produced at this time were built with wordpress, php, and MySql. The WP interface would be customized completely for the clients needs.

I was in charge of all promotions media produced by the company, this ranged from print ads, posters, festival merchandise and signage, festival web sites, event web sites, and the company web site.

All web sites were built on Wordpress with highly customized interfaces depending on the content that needed to be managed. The company would produce very large music festivals which resulted in very high traffic to the websites, I would combat this with heavy caching and optimization where possible.

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