Job Experience
GitHub •
Senior Software Engineer
May 2012 – Present (San Francisco, CA)
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Worked on original web back-end of enterprise.github.com
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Helped start and lead team working on complex file viewing & diffing
- Did primary front end engineering and design work
- Created service that serves millions of customers daily
- As priorities shifted, picked up operations and security work
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Contributed to internal Go services
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Improved and discussed SOC2 compliance strategies to ensure minimal
disruption to developer workflows
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Selected projects:
- 3D, GeoJSON, SVG, PSD, PDF, and Jupyter Notebook File Viewing & Diffing
- Large File Storage Usage Tracking
- Markdown Comment Toolbar
- Repository File Uploads
- Markdown Task List Reordering
- Pull Request Reviews along with accompanying REST & GraphQL APIs
- Issue Transfer and Deletion
- Draft Pull Requests
- Package Registry
- Helped split up primary database cluster
Highgroove Studios •
Software Developer & Trainer
February 2011 – May 2012 (Atlanta, GA)
- Developer Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications for customers
- Practiced iterative & agile development to ensure client happiness
- Worked very closely with stake holders to understand and help meet business level goals of projects
- Taught on site Ruby on Rails classes
Rails Machine •
Awesomeness Engineer
July 2009 – January 2011 (Atlanta, GA & Savannah, GA)
- Responded to on call incidents of customer applications, diagnosed problems with limited context and knowledge of code
- Contributed to internal applications written in Ruby on Rails
- Worked alongside customers to help scale their applications and ensure maximum uptime
- Worked in data center to help bring up new servers