I'm a software engineer with years of experience building web applications at scale. Most recently I was at PayPal working as a full stack engineer on their Node.js layer. There I learned how to move quickly, and have an impact on products used by hundreds of millions of users. I led large-scale releases for new features (pushed alongside international marketing campaigns, and Time Square billboards), refactored legacy applications, and interviewed and trained new hires.

In my early career I was a designer working in print and digital. Eventually, I started focussing on web design exclusively. As autodidact as they come, I became curious about how to get the web apps I was designing to work myself, and so I dug deeper and deeper into the software realm. This years long journey brought me through the basics of programming, client side patterns and frameworks, building reliable server-side applications at scale, and most recently to best practices for data-oriented distributed systems (database tradeoffs, availability patterns, etc).

My previous experience enables me to switch painlessly between service-level scalability discussions, client and server JS patterns, and even Photoshop documents. I love working on teams where I’m involved in many layers of an app. That said, depending on the opportunity I’m happy to sit exclusively in a single domain whether it’s client-side or services.

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