the new york times
staff software engineer - multimedia 2020 - present
  • Designed and implemented cloud-native live video production workflow to enable switching, graphic overlays and real-time captioning
  • Awarded NYT Publisher's Award in recognition of innovation in live video capabilities
  • Migrated existing VOD encoding pipeline to Kubernetes
  • Championed establishing team norms and alignment on technical strategy by facilitating team exercises
  • Mentored and trained interns and junior engineers
senior software engineer - multimedia 2019 - 2020
  • Maintained and improved VOD and live video backend systems
  • Built, hardened and optimized systems to prepare for high traffic 2020 election events such as the DNC, RNC and The Daily's Election Day Live Broadcast
  • Created prototypes and iterated with video journalists to build new tools to streamline their remote workflows
  • Instrumented legacy services to provide better monitoring and alerting into mission-critical systems that lacked visibility
pix system
lead system architect 2018 - 2019
  • Led team developing new hardware and software to enable real-time collaboration on major motion picture and TV sets.
  • Provided technical vision and design to migrate a monolithic backend into microservices
  • Created frameworks, templates and tools to streamline service onboarding and bolster internal adoption of new microservices architecture
  • Fostered alignment throughout engineering by hosting workshops and reorganizing department into small interdisciplinary teams
senior software engineer 2015 - 2018
  • Implemented core services as part of parallelized video transcoding system that processed over 60,000 minutes of footage a day
  • Developed UX and implemented major UI features for application to empower collaboration within the film and television industry
  • Revamped build and deploy pipeline for single page web application
airware
fullstack engineer 2014 - 2015
  • Designed core data model and implemented RESTful API to deliver drone flight data to 1st and 3rd party applications
  • Designed wireframes and implemented frontend features for drone management web application
  • Created modular web application though a library of reusable UI components
spot labs
co-founder/product 2012 - 2014
  • Co-founded company working to bring interactive experiences to public places
  • Led product team to develop core branding and product strategy
  • Drove the development of Android based distribution platform as product owner in agile team
  • Worked fullstack to create a realtime management portal backed by RESTful APIs and WebSockets
ecast
product engineer 2010 - 2012
  • Owned product backlog for revamp of digital jukebox software for a network of over 10,0000 locations
  • Prototyped new applications to repurpose existing platform to enter retail and hospitality markets
frontend engineer 2009 - 2010
education
hampshire college
bachelor of arts - art & technology 2005 - 2009
  • Created interactive art installation that blended minimalist graphics with rich immersive experiences as part of year-long thesis project
  • Wrote firmware to drive robotic squirrel for published study in Animal Behaviour
  • Built shaders, lit scenes and created infrastructure as a Technical Director on award winning short film