Founder, Baypoint Automation, LLC – Santa Clara, CA

February 2013 – Present
Founded successful software consulting company that develops high quality tools, mobile apps and websites for many different types of businesses. Hired and managed subcontractors on a number of projects to deliver business critical tools and applications on tight deadlines. Provided development expertise to Apple, Inc. working with a small Agile engineering team on a continuous integration platform that automated software builds for Apple's core suite of OS X and iOS applications. Also wrote documentation and provided support to end users in outside groups, and was the primary contributor for adding Git support to the application. Other interesting projects included a PayPal-like payment processing system, a fully automated system for a radio station that records, archives and streams programming via a website and mobile app, a parking spot location and reservation app and a mobile app that utilized computer vision algorithms to interpret users' photographs into artistic works. Also provided key DevOps support to a large organization in AWS using Terraform and Docker and built a continuous integration/build automation platform for websites and containerized apps.

Principal Software Engineer, CA Technologies, Inc. – Redwood City, CA
August 2010 – February 2013
Designed and lead team in developing MVC-based LAMP stack application framework and IT infrastructure which enabled continuous code integration and deployment of applications built in PHP5, MySQL, Oracle, Perl, Python and Ruby. Managed projects involving multiple senior and junior level engineers. Also built several tools that greatly increased productivity and reduced overhead on many time-consuming engineering tasks, most notably a Selenium-based automated testing platform running on Amazon Web Services to facilitate distributed testing across an automatically scaled grid of EC2 instances with the capability of unit testing thousands of hosted applications simultaneously within a matter of minutes. Acted as architect and lead developer on internal tools platform designed to provide rapid development and deployment of custom automation tools to support fast-paced SaaS product hosting group. Provisioned hardware and developed platform infrastructure using VMWare tools. Wrote design documentation, hired and on-boarded new employees, provided training to application consumers and acted as subject matter expert on a wide variety of internal services.

Senior Web Developer, Tiny Prints, Inc. (now Shutterfly) – Mountain View, CA
May 2008 – July 2010
Developed several internal applications and contributed many external website enhancements at this successful web-to-print personalized greeting card company in OO PHP5 and JavaScript, utilizing multiple cutting edge technologies and frameworks. Managed from start to finish a major overhaul of the internal order processing and management system, including many web service upgrades to integrate with new printing partners located across the country. Regularly designed new database schema and worked closely with other engineers on bug fixes, feature enhancements and documentation.