Experience
Staff Engineer, Founding Team - Jackpocket
Jun 2014 - Present
- Built ACH funding and payouts with Synapse, then replaced by Dwolla & Plaid, each with an automated withdrawal system for user winnings and company funds.
- Implemented credit card and ApplePay payments with my own Ruby SDKs (Paysafe and Worldpay) to support each.
- Integrated OneTrust for CCPA compliance with automated data reporting and deletion.
- Reduced test suite from 15 to 3 minutes in CI and less than 2 minutes locally with turbo_tests. Overall CI time reduced from 20 to 5 minutes.
- Reduced deployment wait time (from PR merge to finish) from 45 minutes to less than 10 minutes, with trunk based development approach, parallel tests and feature flags (LaunchDarkly).
- Secured 20+ repositories by replacing insecure GitHub PATs with GitHub Apps to auto generate short lived tokens with fine grained permissions.
- Implemented code coverage (Codecov) initially at 73% with gradual increase to current 95%.
- Built automatic refunding system (Operations) for missed lottery ticket orders post drawing.
Contract - WordLab (Jackpocket)
Sept 2014 - Dec 2014
Created an iOS app in Swift for learning words using flash cards in the Leitner system. Created a Ruby script to parse the public domain Webster dictionary to populate the initial Realm database.
Senior Software Developer - 9mmedia
Apr 2010 - May 2014
- Contributed to FitnessBuilder's iOS 8 rewrite by porting the Metrics feature and rewriting over 50 SQL queries to CoreData.
- Implemented MyFDB redesign with focus on images for content, new onboarding flow and social features: profiles, collecting, following, sharing, infinite scroll feeds, etc. Rails 3.2 app on Heroku using Postgres, AWS, Solr and Redis.
- Increased average MyFDB site duration time to 4 minutes from lowest average of 40 seconds. Decreased bounce rate by 40%.
- Optimized MyFDB pages that had 90+ queries down to 5 or less. Rendering times reduced from 3 seconds to 400ms without caching. Average 500ms app server response time (NewRelic) was cut in half.
- Increased FitnessBuilder conversion rates by syncing user and transaction data to Salesforce then ActOn to create plan specific campaigns to email users throughout their trial.
- Planned, managed, and developed the FitnessBuilder web app using Flex 4.5, Swiz, Ruby on Rails and RubyAMF.
- Developed a Flex 4 and Swiz admin for the FitnessClass iPad app.
- Created and maintained four in house Flex libraries for custom MX, Spark and RPC components.
Developer - Arc90
Sept 2007 - Apr 2010
- Developed Flex modules and custom components using PureMVC for a RESTful insurance policy origination platform that allowed multi-tasking for underwriters to manage the policy lifecycle and agents to track changes.
- Rewrote the Readability bookmarklet content parser to search based on keywords in attributes and to use a scoring system to determine content container from multiple results.
- Developed an insurance policy scoring analysis management app using Flex, PureMVC, ColdFusion and AMF that dynamically created reports in Excel with data retrieved from SQL Server stored procedures.
- Developed Question Picker for McGraw Hill, a cross browser, single page AJAX app with jQuery that used nested categories, dynamic modal windows, and complex addition/removal of questions.
Oct 2005 - Sept 2007
- Developed a CMS with template, document and element versioning as a ColdFusion 8, Model Glue app for the NIH.
- Redesigned AboutWeb site from ground up using web standards.
- Developed class management tool for Intelliworks in their ColdFusion based CRM app for Higher Education.
- Enhanced a Model Glue, ColdFusion, Flash form based app for AAO where doctors can submit research papers with peer review.
Developer - Katrina Lost
Sept 2005 - Dec 2005
Developed a ColdFusion app (volunteer project) to help Hurricane Katrina victims find missing relatives and available housing. Built over a weekend. 179,000 visitors on launch day. Used 10GB of bandwidth in 10 days.
Webmaster - ESS
Jun 2005 - Oct 2005
Updated ESS and ESS Expo sites using web standards (source ordering, no tables for layout) and new ASP backends for improved SEO and maintenance.
Apr 2004 - Apr 2005
Replaced the site tree navigation with a cross browser, drop down menu. Worked on several ColdFusion apps.
Skills and Technologies
Languages: Ruby, JavaScript, Elixir HTML, CSS, Shell, Swift, Objective-C, AS3, MXML, REST, JSON, ColdFusion
Frameworks: Rails, React, Svelte, Ember, Realm, Flex, Swiz, PureMVC
Tools: Git, Postgres, Redis, Docker, Figma, Sketch
Education
Montgomery College
A.A.S., Web Programming Degree - 3.57 GPA (2001-2005)
- Hispanic Student Achievement Award
- Computer Applications Academic Achievement Award
- Best Final Project Award in Advanced ColdFusion
- Best Final Project Award in ColdFusion
Presentations
Downloads are listed for each presentation with descriptions.
- CSS: Cosmetic Content Without The Bloat (2013)
- Building Maintainable Applications with PureMVC (various 2009-2010)
- Using Flex Frameworks to Build Data Driven Applications (2009)
- Building ColdFusion Applications with Framework One (2010)
- Digging Through the Flex Framework (various 2009-2010)
Certifications
- Flex 2: Data & Communications (Adobe Certified Training)
- Flex 2: Developing Rich Client Applications (Adobe Certified Training)