Principal Engineer, Kin Insurance, Saint Petersburg, FloridaJan 2022 - June 2022

• Contributed to an Event Source architecture for an accounting and billing system
• Mentored developers at all levels (associate through staff)
• Reviewed architecture proposals as part of the Architecture Review Board
• Performed code reviews for pull-requests across the organization
• Developed libraries and patterns for building internal APIs
• Contributed to the organization's Tech Vision on behalf of the CTO and VP of Architecture

Principal Engineer, STRATACACHE (Real Digital Media division), Saint Petersburg, Florida2017 - Dec 2021

• Developed, maintained, and improved a large-scale Ruby on Rails project for over 15 years. Migrated from Rails version 0.9 through Rails version 6.1
• Built a Ruby back-end API that processes millions of requests and background jobs per day.
• Migrated a Ruby on Rails system to a JSON-API-based back-end, improving the marketability of the NEOCAST digital signage management system.
• Built automated test code in Ruby and Cucumber to automate the testing of embedded hardware.
• Used RSpec to provide full test coverage of the authorization layer in the Rails JSON-API
• Developed a React front-end application to leverage a JSON-API back-end for customers to manage their digital signage networks
• Enabled new markets by creating and maintaining a custom Ubuntu-based OS that supported 32-bit Intel, 64-bit Intel, and ARM-64 based embedded systems.
• Achieved first-to-market amongst other divisions in a transition to the ARM platform by developing and implementing custom kernel patches for ARM-64 systems.
• Lowered hardware platform costs by maintaining a single application architecture for 32-bit Intel, 64-bit Intel, ARM-64, and Android devices.
• Built Ruby based AWS automation software to deploy and scale a docker-based infrastructure. This led to a reduction in hosting costs.

Senior Instructor, Suncoast Developers Guild, Saint Petersburg, Florida2018 - Dec 2021

• Designed and implemented an interactive and engaging curriculum for multiple courses.
• Contributed to internal app generator:app-app. Based on react-scripts, builds student starter projects.
• Contributed to a 95% placement rate by identifying, recommending, and guiding students to secure positions as junior developers.
• Expanded market from full-time in-person classes into remote, part-time courses by developing an open-source curriculum for Ruby, C#, Entity Framework, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, Responsive Web, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Deployment, and Algorithmic Thinking.
• Reduced overhead by developing a Rails-based student management system to effectively handle multiple operations, including enrollment, homework assignment, grading, and student progress reports.

Instructor and Product Development, The Iron Yard, Saint Petersburg, Florida2015 - 2017

• Increased enrollment at one of the most profitable campuses at the largest in-person code school through developing and implementing a curriculum for Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Node, Express, Algorithmic Thinking, and Deployment.
• Built a learning management application in Ruby on Rails to manage student information, assignments, and performance.

Principal Software Engineer, Real Digital Media, Saint Petersburg, Florida2005 - 2015

• Designed, architected, and implemented a Ruby on Rails based software-as-a-service digital signage platform recognized as the most adaptable and easy to use in the market.
• Managed a team developing Ruby on Rails applications to provide a remote management web application to operate our customer's digital signage networks.
• Maintained excellent application availability by building infrastructure that processes millions of requests background jobs per day.
• Increased application uptime and fault tolerance by building and deploying an AWS infrastructure and software deployment strategy, including multi-zone redundancy.
• Continually lowered operational costs by migrating infrastructure from one server in a closet through a data center transition to a scalable Amazon Web Services based architecture over the course of the application's lifetime.
• Improved customer support by creating Ruby API for customer service dashboards and alerts.
• Ensured continuity of business functions by building disaster recovery policies and code, including offsite content and database backups.
• Opened new hardware markets by developing Linux and Android software and custom Linux distributions to run on embedded and PC platforms.
• Increased platform reliability and uptime of thousands of remote devices by creating a custom Ubuntu-based operating system designed to boot from a single squashfs root filesystem combined with an overlay filesystem allowing for secure and reliable remote upgrades.
• Increased the number of hardware platforms supported by patching Linux hardware drivers for device incompatibilities and missing features.
• Reduced the complexity of supporting a diverse array of platforms spanning over 30 hardware configurations, from custom system-on-chip to off-the-shelf hardware, including migrations from 32 to 64-bit operating systems and software.
• Built online Ruby on Rails report generator producing CSV, XML, JSON, and PDF reports.
• Expanded markets to new customers by designing and building an interactive editor for creating digital signage presentations containing multi-zone and multi-screen configurations.