Experience

Fanatics

Software Engineering Contractor, Fanatics Live (May 2023 - Present)

Implemented live video streaming with AWS Interactive Video Service (IVS) and saving video-on-demand content in HLS format in AWS S3.
Leveraged AWS Elemental MediaConvert to create video content from multiple sources in both HLS and MP4 formats
Developed an onboarding experience, with Phoenix LiveView, for new users who would be live streamers on the platform.
Added support to GraphQL API written in Absinthe to support new queries, mutations and subscriptions for a variety of features.

Technical Lead, Promotions (January 2021 - May 2023)

Lead a team of 10 software engineers with responsibilities including onboarding, mentorship, and management.
Managed the full development life-cycle, planning through delivery, for a new set of services that grant Awards to patrons based upon a dynamic rules engine which aggregates data from numerous internal services.
Architected and build an event-based service using Kafka to connect with 6 back-end services.
Authored extensive library of internal documentation of the Promotions service and expectations for team members.

Software Developer, Identity & Payments (August 2019 - December 2020)

Served as Interim Team Lead for the Payments team for 6 months at the request of the CTO.
Developed libraries to communicate with 4 third-party payment providers to enable secure financial transactions.
Created several gRPC APIs for internal service communication.
Coordinated with iOS and Android stakeholders to create a GraphQL API, written in Elixir’s Absinthe framework.
Generated web interfaces written in Elixir & Phoenix’s LiveView library for administration and troubleshooting.

Web Development Student Mentor (July 2019 - February 2020)

Provided technical and career advice to a group of 60-75 students weekly.
Assisted in training of Ruby, Javascript and web fundamentals for approximately 15-20 hours per month.

Software Engineer, Growth (January 2019 - June 2019)

Developed the team’s first React.js application, an on-boarding tutorial to the product for newly signed-up accounts.
Developed systems to enable new subscription-based pricing plans to empower new sales and marketing strategies.
Implemented growth test strategies and set up third-party tracking integrations for evaluating results of experiments.

Software Engineer, Core Product Team (December 2015 - December 2018)

Worked on the design and expansion of the cloud infrastructure in AWS using an “infrastructure as code” approach.
Wrote several hundred system integration tests as part of an independent quality assurance test automation suite.
Implemented back-end features such as rolling rate-limits for bulk downloading data and trial data limits.
Rebuilt front-end application of the customer facing website, including the primary product pages, the guest and authenticated versions of the home page, various marketing pages, the pricing pages and checkout pages.