Experience

Sonder

Software Engineer

July 2017 - Present | San Francisco, CA

Sonder is transforming the future of hospitality by offering purposefully selected, designed and maintained short term apartment rentals that combine the uniqueness of Airbnb with the consistency and quality of a hotel.

  • Built the company’s first native mobile application which powers most of the company’s on-the-ground operations.
  • Increased visibility on guest issue rates and operational efficiency metrics by extending the company’s task management system.
  • Owning product management responsibilities including field research, stakeholder management, planning, and feature prioritization.
  • Joined as engineer #3 and helped build the team to its current size of about 20 via interviewing and helping define team culture.
  • Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React-Native, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Heroku, AWS.

Payable

Software Engineer

February 2016 - July 2017 | San Francisco, CA

Payable made it easy to manage contractor workforces by simplifying and automating onboarding, payments, and 1099 compliance.

  • Joined as engineer #4 of an 8 person startup that was acquired by Stripe.
  • Improved accuracy and stability of a key feature that imported hundreds of thousands of transactions for tax form generation.
  • Consulted with both prospective and existing customers to provide product guidance and build custom features.
  • Developed an internal customer support application which was used to resolve approximately 300 customer support cases a week.
  • Managed all incoming customer support issues and trained a customer support new hire who successfully took over that role.
  • Technologies: Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, Rspec, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Heroku, AWS

Tixora

Software Engineer

March 2015 - June 2015 | Madison, WI

Tixora created an efficient and customer-friendly ticketing solution for regional buses.

  • Engineer #3 of 4 person startup that received 1st @ UW Burrill Business Plan Competition and 3rd @ UW CS Dept. NEST Competition.
  • Designed a NoSQL graph database schema and implemented graph traversals to find ideal routes for regional bus consumers.
  • Created a RESTful microservice with Sinatra that provided bus route data to a web client.
  • Technologies: Ruby, Sinatra, OrientDB (NoSQL), MySQL.

TermSync

Software Engineer Intern

May 2015 - September 2015 | Madison, WI

TermSync connects over 500,000 companies through an intuitive, cloud-based accounting & CRM platform.

  • Full stack development on a variety of projects including a responsive messaging interface and data import optimizations.
  • Technologies: Ruby on Rails, jQuery, MySQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Resque, Elasticsearch, AWS.

Freelancing

Software Engineer

October 2014 - January 2015 | Madison, WI

CuraLinc Healthcare helps organizations improve productivity and decrease costs by providing an integrated suite of behavioral health and wellness services.

  • Contracted with CuraLinc and built a mobile application that increased customer engagement with the company’s health platform.
  • Technologies: Apache Cordova, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, iOS, Android, Twitter Bootstrap, Heroku.