Age of Learning

Senior Software Engineer,
2016 — 2019

Summary

Leadership bringing speed and reliability to PHP APIs supporting millions of children's educational growth.

Experience

ReadingIQ

As lead developer, our backend team took ReadingIQ — a brand new library and e-reader app — from concept to customer in 4 months. I kept team timelines and product goals using.

With our custom PHP framework, MySQL, Solr, Couchbase, containerized via Docker, we were able to quickly implement, iterate, and integrate vertically-sliced features.

Architected a data-driven API, w/ front-end teams (Unity, Angular), and developed tools to import and convert existing content from other formats.

ABCmouse.com, ABCmouse.cn, jp.ABCmouse.com

Senior backend developer for high-traffic interactive products: virtual pets, internationalization of ABCmouse Japan, a speech recognition based language learning game for ABCmouse China, content management and analytical tools, and many game-related APIs.

Delegating, mentoring, learning from, and collaborating with multiple teams of talented developers and artists for a good cause: the education of millions of children worldwide.

Tech Stack

PHP
MySQL
Apache Solr
CouchBase
Docker
Unity
GitLab
Laravel
Speech Recognition
PPI Security