Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead
Twitter
Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead
Medium.com
Sep 2013 - Feb 2016
• 2 yrs 6 mosLed design and implementation of the Vungle Ad Exchange, which serves third party advertisements in real-time and is responsible for 20% of revenue.
Led the Ad Serving Team as Product Owner, owning responsibility for the service powering Vungle’s core business and revenue stream
Scaled the Exchange from 1 to 100+ bidders for every ad request, substantially increasing the number of successful transactions
Led project to support OpenRTB protocol on the Exchange, increasing the inventory of ads available for selection
Redesigned and delivered Redis-based caching architecture for scalability and stability, improving service uptime and reducing request latency
Implemented Video Streaming, expanding available ad inventory and enabling delivery of a new class of video ads
Implemented Hybrid Attribution, incorporating third-party information to increase revenue and fairly pay ad publishers
Software Engineering Intern
Munchery
Mar 2013 - May 2013
• 3 mosWorked with a team of 3 engineers on the Ruby on Rails application powering a personal catering startup
Led implementation of an mobile inventory tool, enabling operations staff to efficiently manage logistics without paper and additional data entry
Developed a system to track ingredients and nutritional facts for meals based on data from the USDA food database, fulfilling a common customer request
Implemented the ability to change delivery times, special meal request handling, and other features important to the business
Lab Instructor (Fundamental Programming + Data Structures)
University of Idaho