Resumé
A formal resumé is available for download in PDF format here.
Experience
TeePublic.com2013–2023
Chief Technology Officer
TeePublic is the world's largest marketplace for independent creators to sell their work on the highest-quality merchandise. Originally incubated within BustedTees.com, it was acquired by RedBubble.com in 2018.
- Led technical efforts building TeePublic.com's marketplace from solo engineer to first CTO.
- Built and scaled proprietary e-commerce platform from $10,000 to $130M in annual revenue.
- Supervised development of billion+ sku marketplace for millions of unique designs across hundreds of product variations and styles.
- Evolved engineering culture and organization from informal “get it shipped” mindset to a defined Agile development practice.
- Worked throughout company to launch critical products across e-commerce, fulfillment, marketing, SEO, customer, and artist verticals.
- Established engineering standards and career development path for both managers and individual contributors.
- Collaborated on budgeting, planning, goal setting, and company strategy with executive team.
BustedTees.com2011–2013
Software Engineer
BustedTees was the original premiere destination for funny t-shirts on the internet. A continuation of my CollegeHumor role. BustedTees was acquired by IAC in 2008 as part of CollegeHumor.com, and later re-acquired and spun out by it's original founder. I served as the sole engineering through the re-acquisition and subsequent growth of the business.
- Survived multiple Black Fridays as the only engineer in the company.
- Migrated from colocated dedicated servers to early AWS infrastructure.
- Figured out how to do anything and everything technically as the only engineer in the company.
CollegeHumor.com2009–2011
Software Engineer
A comedy website owned by IAC, CollegeHumor.com was one of the first comedy websites on the internet. I was hired into their engineer pool and placed as the sole developer of their BustedTees.com business.
- Maintained E-Commerce platform based on custom legacy MVC framework.
- Wildly overbuilt a coupon system for BustedTees.com that was never really used.
- Realized you could drink at work when your bosses were also in their 20s.
Critical Mention2007–2009
Software Engineer
Critical Mention is a media monitoring and analytics platform. I was hired as a junior engineer and worked on a variety of projects, from their web platform to some lightweight Lucene powered search applications
- Heard the most brutal and demoralizing one liner from a CEO to a technical team. Ask me about it.
Skills
Soft
- Agile Development
- Hiring & Recruiting
- Team Building
- Project Management
- Career Pathing and Talent Development
- Product and Engineering Dynamics
- E-Commerce Strategy
- Strong Opinions on the Above
Hard
- Ruby on Rails
- Heroku and AWS
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Elasticsearch
- React
- Next.js
- Git
- Docker
- CI/CD
- SEO
- A/B Testing
Education
Marist College2003–2007
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Upright Citizens Brigade2008–2012
Advanced Study Program
Can you really put a price on imagination? Yes. Yes you can.
Odds and Ends
ImprovCoaches.com2014–Present
A Website for Improv Coaches
A website for improv coaches to advertise their services and for improv teams to find coaches. I built this when heavily involved in the UCB scene and it's still running today. Currently supports improv communities across the US and Europe.
This Website2023
A custom homepage built with NextJS and Tailwind CSS. I don't know either, but made a point to pair program with ChatGPT. AI is the future and I'm here to help it take my job.