Full-stack web application engineer and investor. Extensive development experience with Ruby on Rails applications, across multiple industries. My experience includes managing businesses and software development teams. Open to contract engagements.
Ruby on Rails, Microservices, APIs, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Redis
Founded this investment advisory firm, providing automated investment management for individuals. Provided lead engineering expertise in designing underlying algorithms and decision-making engines that compose and directly manage individual portfolios with highly tailored investment combinations.
September 2010
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Present
Founder and CEO
DebtTraders Group Inc.
Founded this broker-dealer and built it into the largest independent dealer in junk bonds globally, with operations in New York, Chicago, London and Hong Kong.
September 1999
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December 2006
Founder, Lead Engineer
Komodopost Ltd.
Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Redis
Founded and engineered this postal company, provided mail-forwarding to customers in Singapore for products purchased in the U.S.A.
Re-engineered single-tenant SasS Ruby on Rails application to a multi-tenant, fully-automated with continuous integration on AWS using Ansible. Reduced operating costs by 85%. Also implemented VPC and redundancy with databases, providing point-in-time recovery.
Led remote global development team, utilizing a Ruby on Rails stack powering a SASS B2B site delivering on over 1 million requests per days, and supporting a computing infrastructure that scrapes and processes over 2 million business reviews daily. Also responsible for designing and engineering related applications for clients.
April 2018
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April 2021
Education
University of New Hampshire, Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, 1989
Open Source Projects
Bio - Simple, clean personal resume site. Scout Hike - App for managing a Scout Unit hike event, with a set goal and time period. Scout Popcorn - Multi-Scout Unit or single Unit application for managing and for promoting involvement in a Scout popcorn fundraiser.