PetPlate

Human grade food for dogs, delivered straight to your door! Kibble? Never heard of her.

PetPlate provides a modern customizable experience that is perfectly tailored to your pups specific needs.

We migrated from a custom built ecommerce system onto a standardized Shopify Headless workflow, that leveraged Hydrogen components alongside a unified design system to simplify and streamline our customer’s experience.

Site: PetPlate Role: CTO Technical Things: Next.js, React, RoR, ES6, Nodejs, Heroku, Turborepo, AWS

Wisdom Panel

Dogs + DNA. What more do you want? Dinos perhaps.

Wisdom Panel is the world’s largest Canine DNA platform and we rebuilt it from the ground up as a modern API driven web application with a fresh look and feel.

Utilizing a containerized monorepository enabled our team to quickly iterate with on demand infrastructure, doubling our velocity and completing the rebuild within five months.

Site: Wisdom Panel
Role: Head of Software Engineering
Technical Things: Ember, RoR, ES6, Nodejs, Heroku, Docker, Lerna

Freelance

Sometimes I take a vacation from startups, and have a little fun working for enormous corporations. These are some of those:

Nike, TED, Google, eBay, Nokia, Paypal, Harley Davidson, Reuters

Architected Nike’s global showroom software. Implemented the core routing system for the official Harley Davidson app (33k Ap Store reviews at 48. stars). Managed the acquisition and integration of Trapster for Nokia. Built the research platform for Google’s Project ARA and Glass Exporer.

Role: Freelance Technologist
Technical Things: iOS, Android, React, Angular, Ember, Node

Fleet

To the everyday small business owner, international logistics isn’t something you normally think about. And for good reason, it’s a labyrinthian mess of fees, bills and general bureaucracy.

Fleet was built to simplify the international shipping process by providing a unified booking platform that quickly requests multiple quotes for shippers.

Acquired by: Expeditors
Role: CTO
Technical Things: RoR, JS, ES6, Bower, Heroku, Gulp, Bourbon

Super Good

After Trump was elected and our collective souls had left our bodies, we asked ourselves how we could contribute to society.

The answer was to take a few months off, collaborate with local creatives and build a donation aggregation platform that could adapt what it donated to on the daily.

Super Good raised $20,000 in two months which was donated across thousands of charities. It was also mentioned in AdAge.

Site: Super Good
Role: Co-Creator
Technical Things: Ember, ES6, Node, Firebase, Lambda, Semantic UI

Catalyst

Lets face it, building mobile apps is a pain. I’ve literally made a career out of helping people build them. So we built Catalyst to ease that pain for companies looking to quickly provision apps.

We use a streamlined toolchain to go straight from a company’s content to a fully operational mobile app on the App Store & Google Play in two days.

We’re currently working with Ford, FCA, Magna, Dekra and others.

Site: Catalyst
Role: CTO / Co-Founder
Technical Things: React, React Native, RoR, JS, ES6, Nodejs, Heroku

Pathfinder

Applying a UXD centric startup mindset to healthcare applications isn’t a common approach to new products at large healthcare companies. And that is specifically what Pathfinder provides. Starting projects around lean canvas exercises and persona discussions, we reduced product timelines by 3x on average.

Role: Director of Engineering
Technical Things: iOS, Android, RoR, JS, Angular, Heroku, Ember

Brokersavant

Residential real estate is an interesting space, with plenty of pay to play datasources. Commercial real estate is like that uncle that shows up every few holidays. You never quite know what’s about to happen.

That said, we set out to create a standardized / unified source of truth in the commercial real estate world with Brokersavant. And we did that by utilizing a combination of machine learning and crowd powered insights via AWS Mechanical Turk.

Role: CTO
Technical Things: RoR, JS, Heroku, AWS Mechanical Turk, OpenNLP

Aisle 50

People like daily deals and what’s more practical than daily deals on groceries? Aisle50 integrated with grocery store loyalty cards to offer deals directly at point of sale. The result was a seamless buying experience that blended with customers everyday habits.

After taking Aisle50 through Y Combinator, it was later acquired by Groupon.

Acquired by: Groupon
Role: CTO / Co-Founder
Technical Things: RoR, JS, Heroku, AWS, Redis, Bootstrap

Citytech

Ah the glamorous world of reworking governmental infrastructure! At Citytech we rebuilt entire governmental systems at the City of Chicago that did things like: pay taxes, tow cars, route billions of dollars and lay out the city’s budget.

Role: Senior Consultant
Technical Things: Java, Groovy, Spring, Wicket, iOS

Carnegie Mellon

Ever wonder who the most powerful people at Enron were? Or how a terrorist cell would reorganize after losing a key member? Those are exactly the type of questions we tried to answer at the CASOS lab. We did this by employing NLP identification / generalization in order to visualize large networks of information.

Role: Research Programmer
Technical Things: Java, C++, JNI, Hibernate, NLP