Work
Overview
I’m a software engineering generalist. Full stack web app development is where I really shine, but I’ve also done everything from setting up infrastructure in AWS to designing user interfaces and writing public documentation. I’ve spent 8 years building zero-to-one products in tech startups, most recently leading Verified’s engineering team through the company’s first $6M in funding and 50k users as founding engineer. I’m currently building silly stuff on the internet for fun while I figure out my next career move.
History
Distribute
I started my career at Distribute, a seed stage startup in the wholesale industry. I along with two others who started on the same day were tied for engineer #3. Our core product was the Distribute Store, an ecommerce-like web app that allowed manufacturers, retailers, and everyone in the supply chain in between to buy and sell products. I was at the company for a little under two years, rising to senior software engineer and de facto frontend lead. Projects I worked on included product search, order flow, and our migration to React.
Pnyka
Pnyka was a pre-seed civic/social tech company focused on improving the way people have conversations online. It was founded by some friends of one of my colleagues from Distribute, and I joined as engineer #2 shortly after my time at Distribute ended. Pnyka’s functionality was centered around “Assemblies”, structured chats that were optimized to include participants with a variety of viewpoints and backgrounds. We were ultimately unable to raise seed funding, and shut down after I’d been there for about a year.
Verified
I joined Verified, a digital identity startup, as founding engineer in 2019. The founders had just spun it out of their previous company, a civic tech app, and raised some pre-seed money to get started building. We initially followed the developing w3c specs around Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs). I led design and development of several iterations of our core software, building many demo and proof-of-concept apps along the way. Additionally, I worked closely with the founders to build our early development process, interview and hiring process, and company culture. I stayed with the company for four and a half years through multiple fundraising rounds totaling over $6m and our first 50k users.