Senior Software Engineer II
Confluent
(September 2021 - Present)
Software Engineering Manager
Goodleap
(March 2019 - August 2021)
Prominent leader for the front-of-house software teams at Goodleap focused on
building and mentoring high-trust, high-velocity teams. I built out the founding
engineering team and drove the organization's scale from startup to a now
multi-billion-dollar, green-energy financing enterprise.
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Envisioned and architected the primary front-of-house web app that became the
public interface for all loanpal's consumer finance customers and internal
operations.
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Appointed and mentored 3 subordinate leaders that built out individual
high-performing agile teams that consist of frontend, backend, IOS, and Android
engineers
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Built influence in peer engineering, product, project, support, sales, and
executive teams.
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Established Loanpal's initial team structures, onboarding plans, and
code-quality standards.
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Led hiring efforts for the founding core team starting at #5; I mentored many of
these engineers into prominent, high impact, roles
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Modified team structures and delegated responsibilities as the organizational
hierarchy
matured.
Senior Software Engineer
Goodleap
(August 2018 - March 2019)
Founding engineer on a greenfield consumer-finance product that transformed a
local mortgage company into a 12 billion dollar loan-originating enterprise. I led
the front-end engineering for core services that included loan origination, credit
report parsing, finance transfers, loan traunching, and automated underwriting
pipelines.
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Advocated the initial code-quality standards while building the initial minimum
viable product that is now scaled to hundreds of thousands of clients.
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Influenced and predicted product needs while advocating technical requirements
for the foundation of our future scale.
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Introduced the first set of dev tooling, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
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Adopted and led the initial version of Agile methodology, leading to our first
high-velocity engineering team
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Collaborated with business stakeholders to deliver quality products by writing
code
that was easy to read, maintain, and scale.
Software Engineer
Dermveda
(Sept 2016 - August 2018)
Full-stack engineer implementing javascript
technologies such as React, Node, GraphQL, a forked open-source CMS, and MongoDB. I
worked alongside dermatologists and marketing teams to plan and develop new features
that assisted users with skin and wellness concerns by combining tech and
dermatology.
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Collaborated with peer engineers and senior mentors to produce highly reliable
React
apps with a focus on SEO.
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Engineered across the full engineering stack, including database and API design.
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Invented a novel solution for an Isomorphic frontend before today's frameworks;
focused on time-to-paint for our prioritized low-bandwidth markets (rural India,
Asia, etc.)
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Reduced run-time costs by 85% by migrating from monolithic APIs hosted
on EC2 to a 100% Serverless platform.
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Maintained operational excellence by quickly responding to and mitigating
customer-impacting bugs in production
2012 - 2016
Computer Science @ California State University - Sacramento
Successful indie video game projects and top rewards at multiple hackathons
1993 - 2012
Mississippi Gulf Coast
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