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Fractional Engineering Lead

I'm a Product-minded Engineer with an entrepreneurial bent. I work closely with founders and execs as a fractional Product Engineer, Engineering Lead or Product Architect. I either build product myself or build and lead the teams who do.

I help startups navigate the challenges of building and selling digital products—steering engineering focus, improving product-market fit, and ensuring sales traction.

Over the past few years, I’ve focused mostly on startups at the beginning of the funnel: bootstrapped, early-stage, and all the way through Series B.

I’ve built and scaled products and teams at startups, hyper-growth companies, and large enterprises, including New Relic, Apple, and Atlassian. My approach is pragmatic: I get things done and focus on what moves the needle.

I’m interested in hearing from you; get in touch!

Services

Here are some things I can do for your team:

• Get your Minimum Viable Product out the door. A carrier grossing $250k per truck will often lose $200k in expenses. Second largest expense is actually fuel. I partnered with Independence Fuel Solutions to design the User Experience and build their flagship product. We wanted drivers to have on-demand access to the best shipping routes in the US so they can optimize time and fuel. We leveraged React and Progressive Webapp Technology.

• Add actual business value, your customers can leverage. I designed, built, and deployed an efficient routing algorithm for Independence Fuel Solutions. Trucking companies struggle balancing earnings and expenses. Now they keep their fuel expense under control. One shipping route at a time.

• Speed up the build. Tray.io’s Documentation site took about an hour to build and deploy. I helped the team to bring builds and deployments under 10 minutes.

• Find performance problems in production. I have lots of experience finding and resolving performance problems across the stack. Staffing Referrals pages took dozens of seconds to load. Some pages would timeout beyond 30 seconds. I reduced their 75th percentile response times under 500ms.

• Build new features in your existing product. The folks at Tray.io wanted to launch an important new feature in 2021. I joined a newly formed squad to provide support on the backend, building a high performing GraphQL API to power their Connector Builder.

• Architecting complex features involving third-party integrations. Scout —a Fuel Card company based in Manhattan Beach, CA— needed automated tooling to scale their business and serve thousands of trucking companies in the US. I integrated several APIs like WEX EFS, Quikq, Pilot Flying J or Love’s Travel Stops into a database with a unified self-updating view of their customers and fuel pricing in the US and Canada.

• Migrate your Markdown-based content to a headless CMS. Or vice-versa. When Documentation team at Tray.io grew from 2 Technical Writers to anyone in Product&Engineering being able to produce content, I led the Education Team to incrementally migrate a Markdown-based home-grown CMS to a headless CMS. Over 600 Markdown articles were compiled and translated to the new schema.

• Build production-grade, large-scale REST and GraphQL APIs. I can help you and your team set up a new robust API, or stabilize a system that is currently being used. I’ll run your service through my Production-Readiness Checklist to setup Alerting, Monitoring, CI/CD pipelines or Test-Driven Development.

I have experience in a variety of languages: Ruby, Typescript, Javascript, and Elixir. As well as some web frameworks and libraries: Ruby on Rails, Apollo GraphQL, Phoenix, Remix, NextJS, and React. I am well-versed using and optimizing relational databases like postgresql, timescaledb, and postgis. In addition to key-value data stores like Redis.

Rates

A typical contract is for 1 month of work. I am normally booked 1 to 3 months in advance.

I am open to shorter contracts, but prefer longer ones. For shorter contracts, we will divide my monthly rate by the number of days you want, and add a small amount of overhead.