Medable, IncPalo Alto, California

Staff Engineer, Engineering Operations April 2019 to February 2025

Long-tenure staff engineer, contributed in multiple roles at this high-growth startup.

• Lead, Platform Release and Validation: Defined Software Development Lifecycle, owned Medable's release and validation process, enabled CI/CD in a regulated industry.
• Principal Architect, Medable Platform: Coordinated technical strategy, mentored and supported staff in presenting architectural challenges and grew team's decision making capabilities.
• Chief of Staff to the SVP of Engineering: Supported resource planning, growth and management of 200+ engineering team.
• Lead, iOS Software Engineer: Developed and shipped new iPad application for clinical sites in six months while maintaining iOS application. Responsible for technical architecture of Medable's iOS SDKs and applications, including localization, client-server interactions, and new feature development. Mentored team of iOS engineers. Contributed code to Medable's iOS SDKs, mobile applications, and backend services.

Logyx LLCMoffett Field, California

Software Engineer at NASA's Ames Research Center April 2015 to January 2019

Lead developer for the Open MCT telemetry visualization framework and main point of contact for mission customers. Successfully delivered three mission-ready software releases per year to flying missions.

• Led design and implementation of public APIs and extension points, while continuously utilizing knowledge of ground system architectures to ensure product fit.
• Conducted prototyping efforts with new technologies and techniques, summarized findings, and worked with team to implement improvements across product.
• Built a high-performance, no-configuration telemetry datastore to fill a gap in common mission system architectures and increase adoption of Open MCT.
• Traveled frequently to work directly with end users and mission customers to gather requirements, prioritize and plan development efforts, organize test efforts, and deliver resulting products to flying missions.

MerchbarSan Francisco, California

DeveloperFebruary 2014 to April 2015

Architected and led development of Merchbar's ecommerce web presence, iOS application, core services and APIs, while creating a culture of test-driven continuous deployments to enable stable ecommerce services and daily delivery of new features to end users.

• Worked with in-house designer to develop, test, and publish iOS app which has been featured numerous times in the App Store.
• Built, deployed, and maintained Merchbar's ecommerce website. Utilized progressive enhancement strategies to deliver interactive content while providing a consistent view of content to web crawlers, resulting in excellent search engine rankings for Merchbar content.
• Designed, built, unit-tested, and documented Merchbar's HTTP APIs which power all front-end experiences.
• Built and maintained real-time order processing and fulfillment integrations with Magento, Shopify, Goodsie, and a number of bespoke ecommerce systems.

ChuteSan Francisco, California

DeveloperApril 2013 to January 2014

Owned development of Chute's self-service tools, gaining a deep understanding of Backbone and Marionette. Wrote and tested a custom framework for generating and publishing live media displays while reusing components across projects. Contributed vision and guidance to strategically important backend and frontend projects.

Refer.lySan Francisco, California

Web DeveloperJanuary 2013 to March 2013

Wrote, tested, and deployed a number of features for Refer.ly including inline editing, improved drag and drop, dynamic page generation, and pagination in PHP and Javascript utilizing the Backbone framework.

OrderNearSan Francisco, California

Co-FounderJune 2012 to June 2013

Technical co-founder. Developed logistics & delivery management tools for bicycle couriers utilizing Google App Engine, Flask, HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript.

Homeless Prenatal ProgramSan Francisco, California

Lead Application DeveloperNovember 2008 to June 2012

Met with end users, managers, and executive staff to understand organizational needs and gathered requirements for enhancements to existing force.com application. Wrote user stories and produced design documentation for new features, and then built and deployed said new features. Wrote and maintained unit and behavior tests with more than 80% code coverage. Assisted in contract negotiation and grant writing by contributing knowledge of organization's methods and outcomes. Provided planning and organizational assistance to various teams.