Yum! Brands

Designed, developed, and deployed the Loyalty and Promotion services for YUM's eCommerce Platform, driving a 56% increase in registered customer orders and playing a pivotal role in achieving $20 billion in annual digital sales

Lead Back-End Software Engineer

Developed the Customer and Authentication services for YUM's eCommerce Platform, enabling seamless digital ordering for over 100 million customers across more than 45,000 restaurants worldwide.

Senior Back-End Software Engineer

YouTube

- Co-organizer of DFW's largest software developer meetup (Dallas Software Developers)
- Producer and host of the Junior Jobs Podcast
- Conference and bootcamp guest speaker

Community Organizer & Content Creator

Pariveda Solutions

Led the end-to-end delivery of a $10 million cloud migration effort, overseeing 3 teams across engineering, QA, and DevOps (total of 12 contributors). Delivered the initiative under budget and on-time, while achieving near-zero customer impact (99.99% uptime)

Software Engineering Manager

- Setup a new cloud CI/CD pipeline for an on-prem VR experience, reducing install times by over 90% through using TravisCI and custom scripts
- Developed a cloud-based real-time leaderboard API able to consume 100+ requests per second by following data lake best-practices
- Trained and led a team of 12+ developers on Swift and increased team velocity by 15% by enabling the refactor from a legacy Xamarin.iOS app to a new native iOS app

Associate Full-Stack Mobile Developer

- Developed a mobile app for a national health services company, cutting call-center response times by 99% by automating doctor recommendations and cost estimates 
- Created intellectual capital that reduced the time to create a new mobile app by 75% through a re-useable, internal mobile framework that followed best practices

Full-Stack Mobile Developer

mCubed Labs

- Increased team velocity by 15% and reduced defect rate by 20% through introducing test-driven development, MVVM, and the active record pattern
- Built 9 separate mobile applications across 3 industries by using Objective-C and Java

Mobile Developer

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

- Saved nearly $3,000 monthly in developer time-savings by researching and documenting comprehensive requirements
- Increased employee productivity by 6% by implementing agile best-practices

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I am a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience supporting small startups to Fortune 100 companies, currently building the new eCommerce platform for the world's largest restaurant company (Node.js, React Native, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, GraphQL)

I am also an independent programming teacher and career coach for those looking for a new job in tech. My opinions are my own

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