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Work Experience

• Team Lead, Halo Investing, Inc.

  Dec, 2015 - current1 year 3 months

  • Managing a team of 4 remote developers and 1 local developer.

  • Building entire web application for new smart options-trading platform.

  • Crafting a RESTful API for the web app to interface with the backend.

  • First full-time developer.

  • Technologies used: Ember.js, ember-cli, ES6, Python, Flask, Tornado, Redis, Docker, NGINX, gunicorn, RabbitMQ

• Developer, dough, Inc.

  Aug, 2013 - Dec, 20152 years 4 months

  • Worked primarily on every facet of the web-based options trading platform.

  • Led the team getting the first native version of dough launched for iPad and iPhone.

  • Documented most of the internal Objective-C library so developers could get up to speed faster.

  • Moved a handful of utilities into Docker containers for portability and ease-of-use.

  • Introduced Charles Proxy for faster, easier, and more comprehensive testing and development.

  • Technologies used: Ember.js, ember-cli, Ruby on Rails, SASS, Jasmine, Xcode, Objective-C, CocoaPods, RubyMotion, Docker, NGINX

• JavaScript Engineer, Picturelife, Inc.

  Jan, 2013 - Jul, 20136 months

  • Designed and implemented a new and high-performance infinite scroll.

  • Improved the scrolling framerate from around 10 frames per second with intermittent lockups to 60 frames per second.

  • Technologies used: JavaScript, HTML LocalStorage, Web workers, Canvas, requestAnimationFrame, CSS3 Transitions, LESS, Grunt, Mocha and Should (for JavaScript BDD), Ruby

• Senior Software Engineer, Enova Financial

  Jul, 2012 - Jan, 20136 months

  • Designed and implemented a more efficient loan application process used by multiple brands.

  • Fixed a JavaScript error that was in production for 3 months which lost the company around $1M.

  • Piloted releases of the web app to thousands of customers around the world.

  • Technologies used: Ruby on Rails 1.2, Capistrano, GitHub

• Software Engineer, PEAK6 Investments, Inc.

  Sep, 2011 - Jul, 201210 months

  • Tailored custom interfaces for an elite group of options traders.

  • Replaced an expensive external tool with an internal app.

  • Technologies used: WebSockets, HTML5, High performance JavaScript, CoffeeScript, jQuery, jQuery UI, Ruby on Rails, Capistrano, Git, SASS

• Developer, eCD Market, Inc.

  Jul, 2011 - Sep, 20112 months

  • Eliminated intermittent Selenium browser testing failures, saving each developer and QA hours a week.

  • Increased compatibility, speed, and consistency of app by large refactoring.

  • Decreased code base size almost every day.

  • Created the first UI guidelines for future development.

  • Technologies used: jQuery, require.js, jQuery UI, jQuery Widget Factory, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Erlang, REST, JSON, Selenium

• Junior Developer, Team Cymru, Inc.

  Jan, 2010 - Jul, 20111 year 6 months

  • Designed, implemented, and shipped Windows virus detector using C++ and Qt.

  • Created the world's first HTML5-poweredo cross-browser virus scanner.

  • Team Lead in creating the company's first Development Process.

  • Developed multiple Python-backed internal webapps.

  • Developed Firefox Add-on for checking downloaded files for malware. [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/98431/]

  • Developed OS X Dashboard widget for checking files for malware.

  • Technologies used: Qt4, HTML5, CSS3, Python 2.6, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON, C++, Perl

• Software Engineering Intern, John Deere

  Jun, 2006 - Aug, 20093 years 2 months

  Developed internal desktop applications for the Electronic Engine Controls engineers.

  • Learned to develop GUI Applications on Windows and Linux using Qt 4.

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