Functional Programming Principles in Scala

Designed and implemented the first features on the redesigned http://music.amazon.com.  This included a survey of available front-end libraries, architectures, and build systems.  I then implemented prototypes with several of the best choices and wrote a doc recommending a  solution.  

After an architecture and set of libraries were chosen I lead the refactor of the previous version of music.amazon.com into the new updated version.

Additionally I contributed to Windows Phone and Kindle Fire apps for Amazon Music.

Outside of development work, I was a presenter at WebDevCon, Amazon's in house front-end developer conference four times, including both Seattle and European conferences.

Senior Software Development Engineer

At Meta I lead the platform workstream for Meta's Juypter clone, Bento.  This included setting goals for the project, running status meetings, grooming the backlog and mentoring junior engineers.  My main project was the design and development of a Marketplace feature, which highlighted Extensions to the platform and Custom Kernels.

Before the Marketplace, Extensions were buried in settings and it was hard educate users about the various Extensions to the platform.  The list of available Kernels could only be accessed from a Notebook, so it was difficult to explore the 1000+ Kernels available.  Templates and Tutorials were restricted to only being created by the Bento Team.

My solution allows for the display of all of the metadata around each entity type, including descriptions, on-calls and documentation links.  Search is available, where appropriate and Extensions can be directly linked.

Software Engineer (L6)

Digital Foundry is a consultancy in Tiburon CA.  While working there I developed solutions for start-ups like eHow and Fortune 500 companies like Comcast.

Software Engineer

At Reddit, I lead the Onboarding Feature for Reddit Pro. I worked, cross functionally, with the Product and UX teams to define the features that would be in each of the 3 milestones of this project.  I lead engineers in the creation of an internal onboarding tool and new features on Reddit.com to allow self service onboarding.   This project was delivered on time for SXSW 2024 and the team's targets for adding profiles to the open beta were hit.

Additionally, I was the tech lead for the web implementation of the new AMA tools on Reddit.  I worked with the backend and mobile teams to evaluate product designs and create technical designs.  I lead an engineering team in the implementation of the new tooling, which included the ability to schedule AMAs, RSVP for AMAs, and view AMA comments as Q/A pairs rather than comments.  Reddit has always had AMAs, but until this project there was no tooling around the experience.  

Lastly, I was a member of virtual team that was put together to quic

Staff Software Engineer

In this role, I work on Nextdoor's shared components team, where I am building reusable components for use across the web site.

Software development contractor, working with C#, WCF and Windows Workflow.

At the Associated Press I developed software to orchestrate multiple video transcoding appliances.  This software gave the AP's video ingestion system a single API for transcoding video and delivered video from all of the appliances into a central location.

Software Engineer Contractor

I was a leader on the team that created a Micro Experience framework for Amazon.com. This system allows multiple teams to contribute feature to pages independently.  Each feature, which use platform, is portable between page types and can be independently deployed.   I created the initial build system and client libraries utilizing Typescript, Rollup and internal tools.  This platform modernized development of features for Amazon.com

Experienced Frontend Engineer - ex Reddit, ex Meta, ex Amazon

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