I am a self-motivated software engineer who is passionate about creating powerful custom applications and infrastructures while staying up-to-date on the latest trends and technologies. I thrive in small development teams where I am challenged daily and can have a big impact on the projects that I work on. I take pride in both being happy to assist my teammates and gratefully accepting assistance from them as well. My three favorite areas of development are creating/consuming APIs, crawling/collecting/managing third party data and Web Application Security.

Over the last few years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with great people and to complete some incredible projects. During my employment at La Salle University I wrote several custom web applications to improve existing processes and workflows. These included a custom Board of Trustees Portal, a targeted content management system and a class cancellation notification system.

More recently, as part of the BookVolume team, I’ve been responsible for leading the development on their next generation automated purchasing and procurement system as well as their pricing intelligence systems. Some of the key features that I’ve been responsible for both planning and implementing are the distributed processing of jobs across several nodes, the security of our internal API and the backend commands which handle automatic purchasing, updates and communication via APIs and crawling.

I have also been working on several personal projects including creating an open source community and website management system that has integrations with various third party services.

I also have experience working with Linux, Apache, MySQL Servers, Git (GitHub, BitBucket), Semaphore CI,Pure-FTPD and IP Tables.