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I'm currently an Engineering Manager at Click Therapeutics leading our infrastructure and backend services teams. I have experience across frontend (primarily React), mobile (iOS, React Native, Flutter), backend (Go, Node, Python), and infrastructure (AWS, GCP).

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    • Resume

    I've been working in technology for the last 7 years. I began my career in finance as a research analyst at several asset management firms.

    Technology

    • Click Therapeutics

      Engineering Manager
      2022 - Present
      I manage Click's Cloud and Backend Services teams. We are responsible for all of the infrastructure and services that are consumed by our applications.
      • Planning and Execution - Defined high level goals and initiatives. Implemented new project planning and sprint processes.
      • Career Development - Coaching, mentorship, and sponsorship.
      • Infrastructure Improvements - Scaled Infrastructure as Code to 50 EKS clusters and 10 AWS accounts.
      • ML Messaging Service - Managed team working on implementing ML into our notification and messaging systems.
      Senior Software Engineer
      2021 - 2022
      I was tech lead for the Cloud team, where we focused primarily on migrated to a new AWS architecture with EKS.
      • Kubernetes Migration - Tech lead responsible for migration of existing applications to Kubernetes.
      • Infrastructure as Code Implementation - Developed new production AWS environments using VPC, RDS, Elasticache, Lambda, EKS, IAM, and Secrets Manager.
      • CI/CD - Designed and implemented initial version of CI/CD system using Argo CD.
      • Service Mesh - Led development of service mesh upgrade to new version of Envoy.

    • Bluecore

      Senior Software Engineer
      2020 - 2021
      Worked on the Infrastructure team, which was responsible for managing our GCP resources and microservices.
      • Infrastructure Improvements - Migrated microservices to new Kubernetes clusters, enabled Prometheus for metrics with Cortex as long-term storage, implemented distributed tracing, and provisioned resources with Terraform.
      • Database Migration - Migrated legacy Datastore database to PostgreSQL to improve speed and reliability.
      Software Engineer
      2019 - 2020
      Member of the Personalization team, which managed all of templating for Email Campaigns.
      • System Design and Implementation - Designed proofing architecture that interacted with email pipeline to render emails in the browser. Built microservice and continuous integration pipeline deployed in GKE.
      • Reduced Technical Debt - Refactored the Visual Template Editor codebase into services while improving test coverage and reducing technical debt.

    • CariClub

      Software Engineer
      2018
      • Associate Board Builder - Architected and developed new application to let nonprofits build associate board charters.
      • Feature Improvements - Built additional functionality into main web application. New features included applicant tracking system for members to join nonprofit boards and events feature for nonprofits to post events.

    • NYU

      2017 - 2018
      • M.S. in Computer Science - Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, and Artifical Intelligence.

    • tapd

      Software Engineer
      2015-2016
      • iOS Application - Led development of iOS application that helped match college seniors and recent graduates with relevant jobs based on interests, location, and company characteristics.
      • Backend Services - Contributed to backend services written in Python on job matching application.

    Finance

    • Equity L/S Hedge Funds

      Research Analyst
      2010-2015
      • Sourced, formulated, and researched new investment opportunities, reviewed financial disclosures, created new financial models, formulated target valuations, evaluated potential catalysts, and assessed industry and company merits and risks.
      • Conducted in-person meetings with management teams to find new investment opportunities and refine views on existing positions.
      • Invested across sectors including technology, consumer, healthcare, financials, and energy.

    • KKR

      Research Analyst
      2008-2010
      • Credit analyst on $2.25bn energy and retail portfolios. Energy sub-sectors included exploration and production, utilities, refining, and alternative energy. Retail sub-sectors included discount stores, department stores, apparel, supermarkets, softlines, and select specialty retailers.
      • Researched industry and competitive landscape, authored financial models, conducted primary due diligence meetings and calls, reviewed legal documentation, and created investment memoranda.
      • Maintained and revised financial models, developed forward projections, updated relative value tables, and produced quarterly monitoring reports for approximately 30 companies.

    Education

    • NYU

      2017 - 2018
      • M.S. in Computer Science - Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, and Artifical Intelligence.

    • Stanford

      2004 - 2008
      • B.A. - Political Science with focus on International Relations.