Experience

  1. Pittsburgh, PA (remote)
    Director of Platform Engineering
    - Present
    Grew from Senior Frontend Engineer to Director of Platform Engineering, leading the Platform Team's technical direction, product alignment, and process strategy. Re-architected a React codebase with modern tooling (TypeScript, Vite, react-query), enabling a two-person frontend team to consistently outpace larger backend and design teams. Introduced two-week cycles and a design-first planning process, doubling team throughput in a year and improving stakeholder trust and cross-functional clarity.
    Engineering Manager
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    Team Lead
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    Senior Frontend Engineer
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  2. Pittsburgh, PA (remote)
    Software Engineer
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    Built custom UIs and internal tools for machine learning workflows, including a web-based image/video labeling platform (React, Konva), a cross-platform data collection app (React Native, Expo), and supporting dashboards. Helped manage a team of international contractors. Contributed to DevOps workflows by implementing CI, analytics, and error reporting.
  3. The Event Discovery Company

    Youngstown, OH (remote)
    Co-Founder, CEO
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    Led communication with customers and stakeholders to make product and business decisions. Spearheaded frontend development, creating interactive wireframes in Adobe XD and implementing them in React (MUI). Worked remote with a team through an always-improving agile development workflow.
  4. Youngstown, OH
    Talent Development Coordinator
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    Grew Drund's team and talent pool by coordinating internship programs and developer community outreach.
    Frontend Engineer
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    Maintained and added features to a white-label social-network-as-a-service. Helped modernize the project by leading the implementation of JavaScript code standards via linting, integration testing, unit testing, and refactoring.
  5. Cleveland, OH
    Software Development Intern
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    Spent a fast-paced summer helping multiple startups prep MVPs for Demo Day as part of Flashstarts' accelerator. Bounced between teams and projects - building with the MEAN stack on one, Phaser.js and TypeScript on another. Got my first real taste of startup chaos and collaboration.
  6. Student Web Developer
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    Created an information organization system for the Youngstown State University's Undergraduate web Bulletin. This involved writing custom Drupal plugins and themes in PHP.
  7. Joe's PC Services

    Canfield, OH
    Joe
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    Branded, marketed, and carried out computer maintenance, phone repair, and website administration and creation services to over 100 unique customers while in high school.

Education

Completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems with a minor in Entrepreneurship at the Youngstown State University, Spring 2017

Extracurriculars

  1. Entrepreneur in Residence & Director of Software Development @
    Youngstown Business Incubator

    Youngstown, OH - Present

    Advising YBI portfolio companies on software development strategy and leading the YBI's MVP Development Program - which funds and delivers a student-developed MVP for a Northeast Ohio-based startup each semester.

  2. Director of Software Development @
    Dev Youngstown

    Youngstown, OH - Present

    Partnering Youngstown's most promising student software developers with its most promising startups.

  3. Adjunct Professor @
    Youngstown State University

    Youngstown, OH -

    Taught web development at the undergraduate level, bringing practical industry experience into the classroom.

  4. Co-Organizer @
    Code Youngstown

    Youngstown, OH - Present

    Organizing events and resources to connect software developers and engineers in the Youngstown, OH area.

  5. Co-Founder, Lead Organizer @
    HackYSU

    Youngstown, OH -

    Led the first three HackYSU hackathons, bringing together hundreds of students to build software projects over a weekend.

Select Projects

  • SWBF2.events

    , A calendar of current and upcoming community events in EA Star Wars Battlefront II (2017).
  • Digimon Tools

    , A collection of tools for the 2020 Digimon TCG.

Interests

  • Startups

    (Former founder, pitched to raise money, interned at a startup accelerator, participated in a startup accelerator and Y Combinator's Startup School.)
  • Hackathons

    (Co-founded
    HackYSU
    , traveled to Yale, Georgia Tech, University of Michigan, and more.)
  • Bitcoin

    (A blog post I wrote in 2011 was referenced in
    a legal journal
    and
    a book
    on the subject.)

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