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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +skills: |
| 3 | + - Platform Architecture |
| 4 | + - Legacy Modernization |
| 5 | + - System Reliability |
| 6 | + - Incident Leadership |
| 7 | + - Observability |
| 8 | + - Cross-Team Technical Leadership |
| 9 | + - Ruby on Rails |
| 10 | + - PostgreSQL |
| 11 | + - Redis |
| 12 | + - AWS |
| 13 | + - OpenTelemetry |
| 14 | + - Secure API Design |
| 15 | + - CI/CD |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +positions: |
| 18 | + - id: onemain |
| 19 | + summary: >- |
| 20 | + Owned architecture, production health, and systemic risk for a |
| 21 | + revenue-critical acquisition platform in a regulated financial environment. |
| 22 | + highlights: |
| 23 | + - >- |
| 24 | + Served as the final escalation point for high-severity production |
| 25 | + incidents, leading cross-team diagnosis and driving remediation plans |
| 26 | + with clear ownership. |
| 27 | + - >- |
| 28 | + Reconstructed end-to-end customer acquisition flows across browser, |
| 29 | + application, middleware, and downstream business systems, giving teams |
| 30 | + an authoritative operating model for incident response and change planning. |
| 31 | + - >- |
| 32 | + Re-architected session state handling in multi-step application flows, |
| 33 | + removing a persistent integrity failure mode affecting customer tracking |
| 34 | + and incident recovery. |
| 35 | + - >- |
| 36 | + Founded and led the OpenTelemetry Working Group, establishing shared |
| 37 | + observability standards adopted across engineering and cybersecurity teams. |
| 38 | + - >- |
| 39 | + Created an enablement function that separated platform risk and remediation |
| 40 | + work from feature delivery, sustaining long-horizon stability improvements. |
| 41 | +
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| 42 | + - id: sk-holdings |
| 43 | + summary: >- |
| 44 | + Stabilized and modernized a shared Rails platform supporting multiple |
| 45 | + digital properties, millions of users, and high-volume data flows. |
| 46 | + highlights: |
| 47 | + - >- |
| 48 | + Upgraded Ruby and Rails across multiple applications, reducing technical |
| 49 | + debt, security exposure, and long-term maintenance risk. |
| 50 | + - >- |
| 51 | + Built data pipelines synchronizing millions of records between internal |
| 52 | + systems and third-party services to support high-volume operations. |
| 53 | + - >- |
| 54 | + Replaced expensive dynamic queries with materialized views and moved |
| 55 | + session and cache load from MySQL to Redis, improving performance under load. |
| 56 | + - >- |
| 57 | + Optimized CI by reordering and parallelizing test execution, shortening |
| 58 | + feedback cycles and improving delivery throughput. |
| 59 | +
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| 60 | + - id: benchprep |
| 61 | + summary: >- |
| 62 | + Improved correctness, performance, and security for enterprise assessment |
| 63 | + workflows where calculation accuracy and response integrity were business-critical. |
| 64 | + highlights: |
| 65 | + - >- |
| 66 | + Eliminated assessment calculation errors by analyzing and tuning critical |
| 67 | + PostgreSQL queries with EXPLAIN ANALYZE and query-planning tools. |
| 68 | + - >- |
| 69 | + Implemented JWT-based response verification and once-only processing to |
| 70 | + prevent tampering and strengthen trust in assessment outcomes. |
| 71 | + - >- |
| 72 | + Designed a secure cross-origin communication API for embedded client |
| 73 | + applications and reduced high-concurrency bottlenecks in assessment workflows. |
| 74 | +
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| 75 | +additional_experience: |
| 76 | + title: Additional Experience |
| 77 | + items: |
| 78 | + - id: activecampaign |
| 79 | + summary: >- |
| 80 | + Improved testability, performance, and change safety inside a tightly |
| 81 | + coupled CRM core. |
| 82 | + - id: reachlocal |
| 83 | + summary: >- |
| 84 | + De-risked a large legacy rewrite by proposing an incremental modernization |
| 85 | + strategy built around API boundaries. |
| 86 | + - id: klobomedia |
| 87 | + summary: >- |
| 88 | + Built and delivered a social media analytics platform as technical |
| 89 | + co-founder and CTO. |
| 90 | + - id: coderwall |
| 91 | + summary: >- |
| 92 | + Relaunched the platform as open source and modernized background jobs |
| 93 | + and data storage to reduce cost and improve maintainability. |
| 94 | +
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| 95 | +earlier_experience: |
| 96 | + title: Earlier Experience |
| 97 | + dates: 1999 - 2014 |
| 98 | + summary: >- |
| 99 | + Built enterprise systems, startup platforms, and revenue-critical fulfillment |
| 100 | + services across consulting, product, and operational environments. |
| 101 | + items: |
| 102 | + - label: TicketsNow |
| 103 | + summary: >- |
| 104 | + Designed and delivered a real-time inventory locking and order fulfillment |
| 105 | + service that generated more than $2 million in annual revenue. |
| 106 | + - label: Groupon and Obtiva |
| 107 | + summary: >- |
| 108 | + Led onboarding, mentoring, and engineering enablement work while delivering |
| 109 | + backend systems in high-growth and consultancy environments. |
| 110 | + - label: BrightStar, Motorola, BP, and earlier enterprise roles |
| 111 | + summary: >- |
| 112 | + Built integration and operational systems across large organizations with |
| 113 | + a foundation in .NET, SQL, and production support. |
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