Fountain

Led Fountain’s globally-distributed engineering team, including B2B SaaS Product Development, Platform Operations, and Solutions Engineering.

- reduced downtime 50% by fostering culture of operational excellence (continuous improvement and monitoring, alerting, disaster readiness drills, and blameless RCAs)
- scaled organization (doubled headcount) including key leadership placements in Security, Cloud Operations, and Product Development
- increased deployment frequency 10x through CI/CD, test-forward culture, and tooling enhancements (TypeScript, Github Actions)
- introduced data-handling controls and practices across ETL pipeline and OLTP datastores
- standardized cross-functional feedback, escalation, change management, and communication processes
- systematized talent, planning/OKRs, and project management processes

VP of Engineering

Senior Director Of Engineering

Koan (acq. Quantive)

Led tech team through successful acquisition (acq. Quantive, 2021). Our team did it all: building features, internal tools, data-processing pipelines, and the infrastructure to deploy and run them.

- scaling development capabilities through hiring, mentorship and strategic technology adoption (TypeScript, GraphQL, Terraform, AWS)
- managing governance, risk and compliance (GRC) projects including SOC2 certification and GDPR compliance
- implementing data strategy to support and control data use across functions
- building inbound talent pipeline through evangelism and community involvement

Koan

Responsible for top-line SaaS metrics and increasing brand awareness of Koan’s cloud-based leadership platform
- increased year-over-year revenue growth by 10x
- defined and automated marketing, sales, and CS workflows
- integrated growth tooling and data sources with core platform

Director of Growth

Developed core services and operating practices as member of founding team
- introduced and tooled agile development practices including TDD, CI/CD, one-click releases
- collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders in defining, scheduling, and shipping full stack features
- managed release infrastructure (Github, CircleCI, AWS)

Developer

Versal

Led technical decision-making and people management for Versal’s distributed development organization
- standardized development and documentation processes across frontend, platform, and operations teams
- reduced production defect rates through feature-focused QA and release-management processes
- streamlined new-product development by consolidating and deprecating underused applications, technologies, and services
- oversaw auditing, response, and hardening of critical security infrastructure

Director of Engineering

Responsible for delivering course-creation interface and supporting applications within Versal’s course-building platform
- led architectural decisions and development of web-tier services
- developed team members’ individual capabilities through direct mentorship, pair programming, and mandatory code review
- used TDD/test-first culture to build developer confidence and reduce defect rates
- established development workflow, style, and internal best-practices for web-tier core technologies including node.js, express, memcached, mysql, amqp, nginx, and haproxy
- reduced incident response times by introducing automated alerting, APM, and supporting tooling

Frontend Lead

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- consulted on product strategy, roadmap development, and systems architecture for both early-stage and established ventures
- reduced lead times by introducing agile project management and continuous delivery
- improved availability through improvements to engineering processes (TDD, code coverage, peer review, QA), automated testing, and runtime monitoring
- lead platform and application development in JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, C, and C++

Principal Software Developer

Celebrating 20 years in tech as a leader, developer, and sometimes growth-marketer.

Likes:

* engineering excellence
* strong ownership and accountability
* distributed work
* reliable tools

Dislikes:

* micromanagement
* pointless meetings
* Zoom's configuration store

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