Over ten years of backend tech startup experience at all stages of growth, I've developed an in-demand skillset that's likely to provide a positive return to your organization. If you let me, I'll maintain your production app, manage your team, coach your engineers, stand up your cloud from scratch, containerize your infrastructure, automate your deploys, run your analytics workloads, minimize your complexity, firefight your outages, and lead your people.
Cybersecurity, B2B
2022 - Present
Music, B2B
2020 - 2022
Fashion, D2C
2015 - 2020
Wearables, D2C
2012 - 2014
Complexity is the velocity killer. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Code is meant to be read by humans and only incidentally executed by machines. Don't be smart, just restart. Stop duplicating state, network is fast in the cloud.
You probably actually want to use setup.py but are using requirements.txt because you read to do that online when you set up your deployment two years ago and don't understand why you're seeing dependency issues with pip. Also, pandas is overkill.
Not every problem calls for a relational database, CTEs help readability, Postgres is a fine choice, UPDATEs are an antipattern for large workloads, online alembic migrations are painful at times
Good default cloud, IaC is the ideal, battle scars from RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, EC2, Fargate, IAM, API Gateway, etc etc etc, GCP is the same thing with a prettier interface
vim, make, jq, xargs, unix pipes is a fine toolkit
Containers are virtuous if you can get Docker installed on your machine correctly, k8s is probably overkill
BigQuery, dbt, Looker is a sweet stack, dimensional modeling and Kimball are probably overkill, spreadsheets are the lingua franca of data, pivot tables are cool
I went from dabbling with Arduino and Raspberry Pi to raising thousands of dollars on Kickstarter for a hardware product I built from scratch, unleaded solder is harder to work with
I read Bostrom in 2015, am abreast of the latest developments, open to using professionally, no interest in using this grotesque technology in my personal life
Bachelors of Science
2007 - 2012