About me
I’m a a software engineering leader based in Houston, TX. I earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University studying self-assembly in soft matter systems. In particular, I wrote, ran, and analyzed simulations of such systems; you can see a couple of examples of such simulations on GitHub.
Currently, I'm working as Software Engineering Manager at Imagine Learning, leading a team focused on surfacing data and insights for teachers and administrators.
Experience
Imagine Learning is a PreK–12 digital learning solutions company that ignites learning breakthroughs by designing forward-thinking solutions at the intersection of people, curricula, and technology to drive student growth.
I manage a Data & Insights team, developing reporting solutions for IL's Supplemental product suite. In addition to development of powerful new reports to allow teachers and admins to gain insight into their students' activity in the IL curriculum, we are undertaking a comprehensive rewrite of the existing reporting backend system, migrating from a legacy system to IL's shared, fully event-driven data platform.
SmileDirectClub is a teledentistry platform that empowers customers to transform their smiles at home with custom aligners.
As Engineering Manager, I managed corse services teams, focused on developing tools to support user-facing products across the company. Out teams developed and supported a wide range of services, including management tools and interfaces for third-party providers as well as standalone services.
Initially, I led the Prescriptions team, focused on managing prescriptions through their journey from the initial creation of a treatment plan to initiating the aligner manufacturing process. The team successfully delivered the Treatment Plan Service, transitioning the management of all treatment plans to the new service with minimal disruption, and contributing to SDC's transition from a Django monolith to an event-driven, service-oriented architecture.
After successful delivery of the TPS and some initial support and fast-follow additional development, transitioned to leading the team responsible for development of the Partner Portal: a web application which enables partner doctors to create and manage cases to provide SDC aligners to their patients.
FranchiCzar OS is a customer relationship management (CRM) application focused on franchise businesses.
As Senior Lead Software Developer, my responsibilities included managing a four-person development team as well as participating in day-to-day software development. The development team I led was responsible for all FranchiCzar products, including: FranchiCzar OS (a franchise-focused CRM), Fund.io (a provider-agnostic payment processing platform), and Rylos (a learning management system).
Gene by Gene is a genetic testing company that offers a wide range of tests for genealogical and medical purposes. It is the parent company of Family Tree DNA.
At Gene by Gene, I was the lead engineer for GenomX, an interactive web application that enables clinicians to enter medical information such as genetic sequencing data and generate rich, informative reports which can be delivered to patients. GenomX was a an Angular/ASP.NET Core application using a microservice architecture, deployed using Docker containers. It was designed to be deployable either to the cloud in a multitenant architecture or on-premise at the client site.
Durwella was a software solutions company that focuses on scientific and engineering projects. We brought to bear deep technical expertise and extensive domain knowledge to develop a wide variety of applications.
As a software development consultant with Durwella, I developed a variety of applications in science and engineering domains for diverse clients, including:
- Mobile applications using cross-platform frameworks such as Xamarin and Ionic 2 (e.g. Well Control Killsheet: iOS, Android)
- Custom extensions for Geoscience platforms like Schlumberger Petrel and Paradigm SKUA-GOCAD
- Visualization solutions for geoscience, medicine, and other domains (e.g. Unplugged Viz)
RigMinder provides fully automated and wireless data management and capture technologies for the oil field delivered in real time.
Lead Software Engineer
As Lead Software Engineer with RigMinder, I managed the day-to-day operations and priorities of our sotware development team. I also developed solutions to a wide range of problems using various technologies, including:
- Data management and analysis (Python, Go)
- Client software (C#)
- Web applications (JavaScript, Flask)
- PIC microcontroller firmware (C)
- Database management (PostgreSQL)
Reasoning Mind wass a non-profit organization with the mission of providing a first-rate math education for every child. To achieve this, the organization develops blended learning mathematics programs for elementary and middle school and works with schools to implement these programs in classrooms.
Learning Analytics Engineer
As Learning Analytics Engineer with Reasoning Mind, I:
- Applied existing algorithms and developed new techniques for the application of educational data mining to the Reasoning Mind system for the purpose of tracing student knowledge and diagnosing areas in which remediation was needed
- Developed sensor-free detectors of student affective states and behavior using machine learning techniques on student log data
- Analyzed student log data from a pilot implementation of a new curriculum to inform revision of the existing product as well as future development of new offerings