Hi! I’m a development team lead and full-stack web developer who loves creating elegant user experiences. I’m a Core Collaborator of Node.js, the maintainer of CoffeeScript, a contributor to open source projects, and an Imagineer. I enjoy JavaScript/CoffeeScript/TypeScript, Python, Vue, AWS Lambda, Docker, MongoDB and PostgreSQL. You can read my résumé or see my code on GitHub or Stack Overflow. Something else? Contact me.
Experience
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Walt Disney Imagineering
Senior Software Engineer
Dec 2015 – present- Lead a team of 12 people (seven developers, two quality analysts, one UX designer, one project manager and one business analyst) building a search engine for over one million media assets. Conduct code reviews, run dailies and Agile sprint planning and retrospectives. Serve as product owner for stakeholders representing general Imagineers and digital archivists. New app is more than 10x faster than previous app. Set new standards for software quality involving unit and automated tests and CI/CD that are now used as a department-wide model.
- Represent web developers on internal code review committee. Set software quality standards for the Imagineering Technology Studio.
- Created serverless APIs to support kiosks at six attractions in Disneyland and Disney World where guests share photos and videos via email, Facebook or Twitter. Replaced older system that suffered from capacity and throughput problems with new system that supplies limitless scale and has processed media for millions of park guests since 2018. Included new live system status dashboard and analytics charts.
- Built internal web app for resource planning. New app is over 10x faster than previous process, saving hundreds of Imagineers’ hours of time.
- Designed API to allow guests to save their interactions across Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge land built for Disneyland and Disney World.
- Built image analysis and automated tests management web app for 3D graphics engine used in the attraction Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run.
- Developed “Indiana Jones Adventure – The Gifts of Mara” game for Play Disney Parks app, rated 4.7 out of 5 in the App Store.
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Node.js Project
Core Collaborator
Apr 2018 – present- Manager on the Node.js project and contributor of code into Node.js core. Listed in the Node.js readme: github.com/nodejs/node#collaborators
- Co-led a team of 12 developers to add support for JavaScript import/export syntax (ECMAScript modules) to Node.js while balancing the needs of many outside stakeholders. Primary author of Node.js ECMAScript modules docs and announcements: github.com/nodejs/modules/blob/master/doc/new-implementation-announcement.md
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CoffeeScript Project
Leader/Maintainer
Jul 2016 – present- Led 17 open-source contributors to modernize the language and support new JavaScript features. coffeescript.org/announcing-coffeescript-2
- Review all code submissions, test all versions and publish all releases. npmjs.com/package/coffeescript
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Trailer Park
Technical Lead
Oct 2014 – Dec 2015- Led a team of four developers to build jurassicworld.com, a site for the fictional Jurassic World theme park. Created optimized single-page app visited by over 6 million people in 2015, including 300,000 in a single day, without downtime. Designed site architecture and implemented responsive design, analytics tracking, social sharing, SVG icons and templates, animated widgets, zoomable map, video and localization. Realistically simulated park capacity, attraction wait times and monorail schedule.
- Led a team of four developers to build custom content management system web app for new trailerpark.com. Designed site architecture of two single-page apps, a public-facing site and an administrative content management site. Admin pages include drag-and-drop flexible page sections and galleries, authentication, and validation of media dimensions before upload. Agile project with behavior-driven tests.
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Film Finances
Director of Production
Feb 2013 – Jul 2014- Supervised the productions of bonded independent films including American Hustle, Fury, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and Passengers.
- Built web app to track productions’ progress, including interactive graphs, location maps and image galleries.
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New Regency Productions
Software Developer
Dec 2012 – Feb 2013- Built web app where users can upload folders of files and the app finds and replaces sets of text pairs across Word and Excel documents.
- Wrote guidelines for digital asset management and document security, used by film productions including Birdman and The Revenant.
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Film and Television Projects
Producing Team
May 2002 – Dec 2012- Part of producing team for dozens of films and television shows, including Academy Award Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave; Academy Award-nominated Thirteen and Wanted; Emmy-winning The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements and Emmy-nominated Blue Bloods and Damages. imdb.com/filmosearch/?sort=year&role=nm1278634
Proficiencies
- Languages: JavaScript/Node.js (core collaborator), Python, CoffeeScript (project leader), BASH, CSS, Sass, Stylus, HTML.
- Frameworks: Vue, Meteor (contributor), React, Ember, Backbone, Express, Serverless, AWS Lambda, WordPress, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap.
- Technologies: Docker, Docker Compose, Terraform, AWS, S3, ECS, EC2, SQS, RDS, API Gateway, LocalStack, Google Cloud, MongoDB, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Confluence, Google Analytics, Google Maps API, Handlebars, D3, Facebook/Twitter sharing, WebdriverIO, Cucumber, TestCafe, Puppeteer.
- Methodologies: Agile/Scrum project management. DevOps including continuous integration/continuous deployment. Responsive design. Test-driven development.
Education
- Columbia University. School of the Arts, 2005–2009. Master of Fine Arts degree in Film Producing.
- Cornell University. College of Arts & Sciences, 1999–2003. Bachelor of Arts degree in Film with a focus in Computer Science.
