Software craftsman with experience in agile practices and development of
large scale, web-based, cloud-native applications, using the Java stack,
and most recently Ruby and JavaScript.
Work Experience
Resonant Data
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Co-Founder
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Chief Architect
(San Francisco, CA)
5/2025 – present
Resonant Data uses Gen AI to help Marketing teams.
keywords
OpenAI, LangChain, TypeScript, React, AWS, Heroku, MongoDB,
PostgreSQL
Arta Finance
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Software Engineer
(Mountain View, CA)
6/2022 – 1/2023
Arta wants to give everyone get access to the best financial
services so that they can live their best lives. I was part of the
infrastructure team that tied the human-facing UI to AI models and
financial institutions.
keywords
Python, DAML smart contracts, Google Cloud, protobuf
Forge
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Staff Software Engineer
(San Francisco, CA)
11/2021 – 6/2022
Forge is powering a global private market that is transparent,
accessible and seamless for companies, their employees, investors
and institutions.
keywords
.NET Core, C#, Ruby on Rails, Git, JSON, Test-Driven Development,
Pair Programming
Gusto
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Software Engineer
(San Francisco, CA)
10/2019 – 10/2021
Breaking up monoliths at Gusto: the people platform built for small
businesses. My team enabled communication between services using
federated GraphQL, gRPC, and Kafka.
keywords
Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, Apollo Federation, gRPC, TypeScript, Node,
Git, JSON, Test-Driven Development, Pair Programming, protobuf
Directly
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Co-Founder
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Lead Architect
(San Francisco, CA)
12/2010 – 10/2019
Directly let's a company tap the collective wisdom and free cycles
of its expert users to help answer customer support tickets. As the
technical co-founder, led development to successful $12M Series A
and $20M Series B. Built event-driven backend, expert web dashboard,
gamification dynamics, universal connector to trigger web hooks
according to configurable business logic. Carved microservices out
of the initial monolith, such as the core routing engine, which
optimizes resolution rates by sending tasks to experts based on a
number of factors, and an AI system to auto-answer frequent support
tickets.
keywords
Microservices, Grails, RabbitMQ, Git, Redis, MySQL, JSON, Scrum,
Test-Driven Development, Jenkins, AWS
ShopWell
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Software Engineer
(Palo Alto, CA)
10/2009 – 11/2010
Employee #3 in a 12-person startup that wanted to change the way
people eat. As a backend developer, worked with dietitians to
customize nutrition labels based on user profiles, match food
ingredients. Also, user management, tagging, early work with Solr
and Facebook. Scrum with 2-week sprints.
keywords
Grails, Solr, Spring Security, Git, MySQL, Scrum, TDD, Estimation
Poker, Hudson, AWS
Google
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Software Engineer
(Mountain View, CA)
2005 – 2009
Agile coach on multiple projects (Calendar, Docs, Orkut, AdSense):
embedded with teams to coach developers to refactor code for
maintainability and testability, to improve continuous build
systems, to care about code quality. Self-published articles on
jMock and
Guice.
On Google Base: built an analytics feature from automated data
gathering with map-reduce to surfacing data in the frontend,
resulting in 20% increase in dashboard page views.
keywords
TDD, Pair Programming, Java, Guice, jWebUnit, Selenium, Git, Ruby,
RSpec, Python, Sawzall, MapReduce, MySQL
LinkedIn
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Senior Software Engineer
(Palo Alto, CA)
2004 – 2005
As one of 5 engineers, built first versions of core LinkedIn
features like subscriptions, LI Jobs and LI Groups. Full-stack
development, including tests, on short release cycles.
keywords
TDD, Java, JSP, XML, HtmlUnit, MaxQ, Oracle
Open sourced an analytical library to inspect compiled Java code for
dependencies, API evolution, and OO metrics. It supports multiple
frontends: command-line, GUI, Ant tasks, and web. Software
Development magazine listed Dependency Finder as one of ten open
source projects to watch back in 2004.
keywords
TDD, Design Patterns, Java, JSP, XML, XSLT, Ant, Git, SourceForge