With my team I’m working on the next generation of Finetune’s hybrid AI/human tools. Our apps are used by The College Board, Fortune 500 companies, and K-12 school districts.

I enjoy teaching and public speaking — sharing what I do, and talking with people who want to learn.

I’ve presented at conferences, been a guest speaker in college Computer Science and high school programming classes, and appeared on podcasts.

Fintech startup Routable provides a business payment platform for companies of all sizes. As a Principal Software Engineer I helped lead a major change to the internals of the platform, aimed at making it a more appealing choice for enterprise customers.

I was Principal Software Engineer on the team building and maintaining this system — the backbone of MassChallenge’s startup accelerator programs around the world.

I created this pastebin in 2006 for fellow early-adopter Django coders and it’s still going strong. The “Share this traceback” button in Django’s debugging interface submits here. Registered users can mark favorites, follow other users, make items public, and edit/delete their items.

The web/mobile publishing platform we built at Cox Media Group served tens of millions of pages per day and was a growing source of revenue for this $1.5B national media company.

This cloud-based communications provider with 50,000 users hired me as a Senior Software Engineer to help transform their customer-facing admin application — gradually replacing a Perl monolith with serverless Python and React.

I co-wrote one of the first books on the Django web framework.

Over 130 of the top 200 US accounting firms use LCvista’s software for learning management and compliance tracking. As Senior Software Engineer I collaborated with product owners and my engineering team to improve and expand the product.

I was Lead Backend Engineer on Tactiq’s “Pipeline” product, a communication channel connecting over 40,000 retailers to their distributors and manufacturers. My work directly supported operations at national chains like CVS, Dollar General, and Circle K.

As Director of Software Development at this photography/business school, I built many specialized web and database applications.

For several years I ran my own small agency, E-Scribe New Media, focusing on web and database development for regional clients.

I was Senior Developer on the team building and maintaining this translation services portal for the largest translation services company in the world.