Full-Stack Software Engineer

Skills

Highly proficient in JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Vue.js, PostgreSQL, Python, Java, Spring Boot, git, complex local development environments, MySQL, HTML, and CSS.

Experience

Principal Software Engineer — Atlassian, Remote. March 2022–present

Principal Software Engineer — 2024–present

• Leading multiple workstreams building out enterprise change management capabilities.
• Driving org-level developer productivity.

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer — 2022–2024

• Building and leading enterprise change management projects.
• Java and Kotlin: Spring Boot
• Python: Flask, Celery
• TypeScript: Node.js, React
• AWS: SQS, DynamoDB, Lambda, EC2, ElastiCache
• Other: PostgreSQL, Docker, LocalStack

Senior Software Engineer — Pluralsight, Utah. July 2019–March 2022

• Led a highly collaborative dev team to improve user onboarding.
• Worked closely with product management to plan our product roadmap.
• Used TDD and pair programing to build microservices with React, Vue.js, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis, and Node.js.
• Contributed to an infrastructure as code Gitlab pipeline to deploy services to an AWS-hosted Kubernetes cluster.
• Developed internal tools to increase developer productivity.

Senior Developer — Dotdash, Remote. September 2011–July 2019

Content Management — 2014–2019

• Built a custom structured-content WYSIWYG editor with Quill.
• Created content management systems with Vue.js and Angular.
• Developed services and REST APIs in Node.js for content management systems.
• Worked to implement a publishing pipeline which was 10x smaller than the old one.
• Designed and developed a new permission model for CMS tools.
• Led effort to modernize CMS development with ES2015 and above.
• Standardized logging across all CMS tools and applications.

Calorie Count — 2011–2014

• Built features using PHP, MySQL, and MongoDB to allow users to connect with other members, share status updates, daily progress reports, and receive community support.
• Created a system for accepting and verifying the accuracy of user-submitted foods, resulting in a 70% food database increase in less than a year.
• Led effort to refactor and migrate legacy code to a new platform.
• Initiated and led unit and integration testing efforts.

Senior Developer — PetFlow.com, New York NY. March 2010–April 2011

• Managed the setup, administration, and backups of development, staging and production servers, MySQL databases and database servers.
• Developed entire customer-facing website in Drupal (PHP, JavaScript, CSS).
• Was instrumental in executing a painless migration from Drupal to a new framework.

Developer & DBA — Portero Luxury, New York NY. October 2008–March 2010

• Configured a network of high-availability servers in a virtual private grid on which three major web components ran: back-end admin, third-party vendor admin, and the customer-facing website.
• Built admin and vendor platforms using Linux, PHP, MySQL, and the Doctrine ORM.
• Developed, extended, and integrated an API to synchronize data between a back-end server and the customer-facing Magento website.
• Contributed enhancements to the Zoop PHP framework, most notably the integration with the Doctrine ORM system for SQL databases.
• Administration of MySQL databases, database servers, and database replication.

Developer & Sys Admin — eRev, Salt Lake City UT. 2006–2008

• Built a content management and e-commerce system from the ground up using PHP and MySQL. This platform powered over 200 websites.
• Implemented 3rd party payment processors PayPal and Authorize.Net.
• Designed and implemented solutions to streamline the sales to deployment pipeline.
• Complete server setup and management.

Web Developer — Nextline Media, Salt Lake City UT. 2005–2006

• Built and maintained a variety of projects with PHP and MySQL.

Owner — Take a Hike Software, Salt Lake City UT. 1997–2004

• Released the first popup advertisement blocker ever developed, Close Popup.
• Developed Mouse Trap to secure computers without the overhead of other security options on the market. Mouse Trap was featured in Windows Magazine, PC Magazine, and Lockergnome.
• Created Real Passwords for generating easy to remember, secure passwords.
• Built 12 other freeware and shareware applications.