United States

Front-end

Back-end

Full stack

Development Operations

Site Reliability

Tulane University

Vail Gold

Director of Engineering

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Cloud computing

Python

Docker

GitHub

Golang (Go)

JavaScript

Jira

GitLab

REST API

Redis

PostgreSQL

Stakeholder management

Communication

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

- Led development of BotGuard for Applications, which achieved $5M in revenue with ACV over $300k in its first year in the market, enabling fundraising which led to purchase of market-leading competitor, PerimeterX.
- Implemented DevOps by delivering a new, self-service cloud platform, including staging environment, push-button deployments and automated release management, reaching 1,000 deployments in under one year.
Led delivery of internal data investigation and processing tools to improve fraud mitigation.
- Led the infosec team through rigorous, customer-led security questionnaires and audit processes.
- Led the re-design of department-wide roadmap planning and alignment processes.

- Led project to build microservice platform in AWS ECS for commercial bank to rebuild commercial banking portal and backend systems
- Configured and managed ELK stack for platform logging, Consul for service discovery, Jaeger for opentracing and Datadog for monitoring and alerting
- Built CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins for platform testing and deployments

- Led development and deployment of internal PaaS using AWS, Docker, Jenkins and Chef
- Led migration of cloud infrastructure from Heroku to AWS saving $150k per month

- Led development of new, interactive customer experience to design and deploy their own product carousels
- Led evolution of agile development processes to optimize workflow for the team

- Developed debit card rewards programing using Python and Django
- Integrated back-end systems with third parties through SOAP and HTTP protocols
- Facilitated success PCI compliance audit

- Built front-end, map-based interactions in Angular, including complex widgets like multi-calendar pickers
- Built complex ETL processes in Python
- Managed MongoDB cluster, including schemas and indexes- Built front-end, map-based interactions in Angular, including complex widgets like multi-calendar pickers - Built complex ETL processes in Python - Managed MongoDB cluster, including schemas and indexes

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