Strengths
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A strong track record of eagerly tackling
and solving difficult, complex technical and
business problems—often after others have given up on
them
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Success working in and leading/managing others in
heterogeneous team structures and organizational
environments—remote/work-from-home, satellite office, and
central office
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Able to communicate effectively—verbally and in
writing—across multiple disciplines—engineering,
marketing, product management, project management, sales,
and accounting
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A strong track record of building teams with high-trust,
empathetic, collaborative cultures
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Able to quickly grasp and learn new technologies and apply
them to solve real business problems
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Broad experience spanning all levels of the proverbial
stack, including operations and software engineering
Experience Highlights
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Provided technical architecture leadership and guidance for
web services and infrastructure across the engineering
organization (90+ engineers) — Faithlife
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Re-architected and overhauled the SDLC for e-commerce web
applications and services, including the introduction of
continuous delivery —
Faithlife
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Co-led the design and rollout (in 2011-2013) of a
service-oriented architecture using HTTP APIs while applying
principles of domain-driven design and continuous delivery
(what people now call "Microservices") — Faithlife
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Successfully overhauled enterprise engineering project
workflow to help prioritize projects based on expected
business value rather than (only) internal politics —
Faithlife
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Directly led and managed ~35 engineers and team leads,
including datacenter operations, core web services, and
e-commerce systems —
Faithlife
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Lead team (interim) of 100+ software, quality, and
operations staff while the company searched for a permanent
CTO —
Keap / Infusionsoft
Skills
I've authored, shipped, and operated production software
systems using the following technologies (not exhaustive, no
particular order):
- JavaScript
- Java
- C#
- Objective-C
- C
- Python
- PHP
- MySQL
- SQL Server
- Redis
- Elasticsearch
- PostgreSQL
- RabbitMQ
- HAProxy
- NGINX
- Kubernetes
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Cloud Platform
- Linux (RHEL/CentOS, Debian/Ubuntu)
- Windows
- FreeBSD
- SmartOS