• Regularly use Ruby and Python for automation, file ingestion, web applications with Django and Rails, and Microservices with Flask
• Regularly use containerization technologies like Docker, ECS, and Kubernetes
• Regularly use front-end technologies like JavaScript ES6, JSLint, npm, LESS, SASS, HTML 5, CSS2, CSS3
• Strong with natural language ingestion and search technologies like Lucene, Solr, ElasticSearch, CloudSearch
• Built and architected tools using Amazon Web Services like Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, S3, SQS, Redshift, and Aurora
• Strong PHP skills and proud of it, including related technologies like CakePHP, Zend, Composer, Laravel
• Architected applications using queuing technologies like SQS, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, and Apollo

Capital One

I work in the bank's rapidly evolving Shopping Platform team and core Credit Card Rewards team. Within Shopping Platform I worked to bring newly acquired companies in line with Capitol One techonolgy, infrastructure, and standards, while growing at the same time.

I work at the intersection of CloudOps and application development. I implement tools in Python, Django, Docker, AWS ECS, AWS Fargate, and a host of other technologies to create scalable applications for our 8 million active users, and cross marketing to the even larger set of Capital One cardholders.

Satellite Collective

I have been the main technologist at New York arts organization Satellite Collective for years, serve on the board, and have the title of Director of Technology. Our organization sponsors

I manage all online tooling and vendor services. I manage SEO and brand presence for the brand, putting all our properties at top 5 natural google results.

I manage technical volunteers, architected, and built an interactive web application to store and display multimedia art works from 43 different countries and respond to traffic during peak media coverage. See the New York Times coverage of the project. View the project.

Sony Music // The Orchard

The Orchard, now Sony Music, used MySQL queries to search its vast music and film distribution catalog. I researched, designed, and contributed to a custom search microservice that took searches from seconds to milliseconds. I co-designed and contributed to BACON, the first fully automated tool for interacting with YouTube rights management, saving hundreds of hours of manual work each month. See media coverage

The Jones Group

The Jones Group manages several eCommerce brands that generate 80 million a year using a single codebase and the popular eCommerce platform: DemandWare. The sites I worked on include: jny.com, ninewest.com, anneklein.com, us.kurtgeiger.com, rachelroy.com, and brianatwood.com. I was part of a small 5 person development team that handled all features and updates to all the sites.

ProQuest

I wrote the first data API in SOAP and C#.NET to serve customers raw information from the popular Ulrich's brand.

I wrote Java and Ruby programs to manage and organize Terabytes worth of information about online serials.

Interests & Hobbies

I'm involved in the Interactive Fiction community, people who use computers to make something that's half story and half computer game. They're like literary Choose-Your-Own-Adventures.

One of my works was an award winner in the Interactive Fiction Competition, and another was an award winner in the Spring Thing Competition.

I also write some tools and tutorials to help other authors of Interactive Fiction write and style their own works.

I love music and listen to new albums every single week. Check out my Spotify Playlists

I'm just a little into numismatics and have been collecting in-circulation U.S. coins since I was a kid. How wholesome is that? You can see what pennies I still need here.

I also like to BBQ and grow cacti.